Dusty resources

Dusty Banjos has produced various resources to assist students in learning the tunes and sets that are played at the sessions. Three CDS are available:

 

Dusty Banjos. This CD contains easy tunes played at a slow pace - absolutely slow tunes for absolute beginners.
The Learners Club. This CD contains tunes played at the open sessions.
The Learners Club 2. More tunes from the open sessions.

 

The book Dusty Banjos - Session Tunes has been produced as an accompaniment to the first two CDs.

 

The CDs and book can be ordered by contacting us, and we can arrange payment and delivery. They are also available in Galway city at Powells Four Corners, Opus II, the Crane bar and Paul Doyle musical instruments. In Ennis they are available from Custys music shop.

Dusty Banjos CD

This CD contains tunes played at a very slow pace, and is intended for absolute beginners. The tunes are played on mandolin by Mary Lovett, occasionally accompanied on guitar by Kevin Boatman. Click on a 'listen' link below to hear a 40 second segment of selected tunes.

 

Polkas 1 Peg Ryan's Listen
  2 Newmarket Listen
  3 Britches full of stitches Listen
Slides 4 Mary's spinning wheel Listen
  5 Brosna  
  6 Off she goes  
Jigs 7 Paddy in London Listen
  8 Humours of Glendart Listen
  9 The Kesh  
  10 Paddy's return  
  11 The black rogue  
  12 Out on the ocean Listen
  13 Tobins  
  14 The Connaught mans's rambles  
  15 The rambling pitchfork  
  16 The Carraroe Listen
Hornpipes 17 Boys of Bluehill Listen
  18 Clareman's hornpipe Listen
  19 Stack of barley  
  20 The Galway hornpipe  
  21 Off to California  
Reels 22 Mountain road Listen
  23 Tulla Listen
  24 Silver spear Listen
  25 Miss McLeod's  
  26 My love is in America  
  27 Rolling in the Ryegrass  
  28 Man of the house  
  29 Concertina  

The Learners Club CD

This CD contains 27 tracks of tunes which feature regularly at Dusty sessions, both student and open sessions. They are at an easy-to-follow medium pace, played by Mary Lovett on banjo and mandolin with guitar accompaniment by Kevin Boatman. Click on a 'listen' link below to hear a 40 second segment of selected tunes.

 

Jigs 1 Boys of the town Listen
  2 The rose in the heather Listen
  3 The wandering minstrel
  4 The gander in the pratie hole
  5 Tonra's  
  6 The mist covered mountain Listen
  7 The cliffs of Moher
  8 Gerry's beaver hat
  9 The lilting fisherman  
  10 The humours of Ennistymon  
  11 Behind the haystack  
  12 Sliabh Russell  
  13 My darling asleep Listen
Hornpipes 14 The blackbird  
  15 The fairies Listen
  16 Chief O'Neill's  
Reels 17 Father Kelly's Listen
  18 The red haired lass Listen
  19 Cooley's  
  20 The wise maid Listen
  21 The humours of Ballyconnell  
  22 Toss the feathers  
  23 The banshee  
  24 St. Anne's  
  25 The maid behind the bar Listen
  26 The cup of tea  
  27 Master McDermott's Listen

The Learners Club 2 CD

This CD contains 28 tracks, all recorded by performers and students from the classes and sessions. The choice of material reflects the individual musicians' taste so there's a bit of everything, but all the tunes feature regularly at the sessions. They are played at an easy-to-follow medium pace and include accompaniment. Click on a 'listen' link below to hear a 40 second segment of selected tunes.

 

Jigs 1 The Blarney pilgrim Listen
  2 The high part of the road Listen
  3 Gallagher's frolics  
  4 Dooney rock  
  5 Scatter the mud  
  6 Maho snaps Listen
  7 The scarce O'Tatties  
  8 Lyndhurst  
  9 Willie Coleman's  
  10 Trippin upstairs Listen
  11 The lark in the morning  
Reels 12 Tim Moloney Listen
  13 Handsome Sally Listen
  14 Lad OBeirne's  
  15 The lads of laoise  
  16 Speed the plough  
  17 The hare's paw  
  18 Sporting Paddy Listen
  19 The drunken landlady  
  20 Over the moor to Maggie  
  21 The green fields of Rosbeigh  
  22 Tom Ward's downfall  
March 23 O'Sullivan's I Listen
  24 O'Sullivan's II  
Hornpipe 25 From Galway to Dublin Listen
Set dance 26 The three sea captains  
Mazurka 27 Skeltons Listen
Air 28 No. 6 The Coombe  

Dusty Banjos - session tunes book

The Dusty Banjos session tunes book contains the music for all the tunes on the Dusty Banjos and The Learners club 1 CDs, plus a few extra tunes. Sixty five tunes in total, they are presented in banjo tablature, ABC and standard sheet music notation. It contains notes on reading tablature, and the variations in tunes as they are played in Galway sessions. The table of contents references each tune to the track number and CD on which it features. Below are a few screen shots from the book. Click on a thumb to view a larger image.