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Molly Malone Tutorial
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Molly Malone Tutorial

Molly Malone, also known as Cockles and Mussels or In Dublin’s Fair City is a very popular street ballad of old apparently based on the life of a fishwife named Molly Malone who plied her trade on the streets of…

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Irish Washerwoman Tutorial
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Irish Washerwoman Tutorial

This is a very well known traditional dance tune and an all time Irish favourite. It’s known to have been played throughout the British Isles and North America and apparently dates back to the 17th century. It is a Jig…

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The Boys of Bluehill Tutorial
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The Boys of Bluehill Tutorial

The Boys of Bluehill is a simple melodic hornpipe that lends easily to ornamentation and is a great tune to use for teaching beginner musicians and introducing them to the specific hornpipe rhythm. It’s a tune that is very well…

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The Kerry Polka Tutorial
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The Kerry Polka Tutorial

The Kerry Polka – Irish Piano Accordion Tutorial Lesson Also known as Peg Ryan’s Polka this tune has been published in over 1000 tune books. This is one of the best beginner tunes to start off with and in my…

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Seán O’Dwyer of the Glen
Accordion Performance

Seán O’Dwyer of the Glen

One of my mother’s favourite little waltzes to play on the fiddle. I can still here her shout “BAND PRACTICE!!” The first one to leave the house immediately would be Teddy the family dog followed very closely by my father…

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Cliffs of Dooneen
Accordion Performance

Cliffs of Dooneen

The Cliffs of Dooneen is an old Irish ballad which is said to have been penned as a poem by a man called Jack Mc Auliffe and then later put to music by a local musician of the area. The…

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Road to Lisdoonvarna
Accordion Performance

Road to Lisdoonvarna

The tune Road to Lisdoonvarna also known as All the Way to Galway is played here as a brisk single Jig in 6/8 time and in the modal key of E Dorian. It may also be notated in 12/8 time….

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The Sailors Hornpipe No2
Accordion Performance

The Sailors Hornpipe No2

The hornpipe a dance tune of Irish, Scottish and British origin done in hard shoes. It is suggested that this dance dates back to around the 16th century and began being performed on British sailing vessels. It may be written…

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The Irish washer woman
Accordion Performance

The Irish washer woman

This is a very well known traditional dance tune and an all time Irish favourite. It’s known to have been played throughout the British Isles and North America and apparently dates back to the 17th century. It is a Jig…

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The Kerry Polka
Accordion Performance

The Kerry Polka

Kerry Polka Also known as Peg Ryan’s Polka this tune has been published in over 1000 tune books. This is one of the best beginner tunes to start off with and in my own arrangement here it is played in…

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