This page provides a home for downloadable files of some of the tunes used in the Friday folk music sessions (in PDF format), as well as song sheets and tunes for some of the special Sunday/Saturday sessions and other events.
If you want any of the music in abc format contact Jeremy Dale
For details of the Saturday and Sunday events, see the Special Events page. For information about the regular events - Tuesday Folk Club, Wednesday Singing Group. and Friday sessions - see the Regular Activities page.
Friday tunes
With the addition of volume 3, there are now 100 of our favourite tunes. Which of these we actually play changes over time, but if you know any of them, we would be happy to play them with you. The versions shown are (more or less) as we play them. You may find they are a bit different from versions you get from elsewhere - that's folk music for you!
List of tunes - all volumes
Eurosessions
Our occasional Sunday afternoon Eurosessions have proved very popular. See the Home page of this website, or the Club's Facebook page, for a notice of the next session. Most of the tunes sre in Les Panards Dansant tunebook. Additional tunes will be posted here.
Supplementary tunes, January 2020 edition (this has all the previous tunes plus some extra ones
Tunes from Galicia and Asturias. These are provided by courtesy of Rob Garcia of Na-Mara. For more information about Na-Mara, visit their website.
Songs
Some of the people who come to the Tuesday Folk Club and/or the Friday/Sunday music sessions have written songs; some of these you can see by following the links below. You don't need permission to perform them, nor to reproduce them for non-profit purposes. If you plan to start making money out of them, that would be a different matter!
Songs written by Jeremy Dale
A number of original songs by Jim Johnson can be seen on YouTube - go to BlackNed51
Singing Group
The Wednesday Singing Group covers a very wide variety of songs. To give an idea of the range, download some of the songsheets we've been using. Further songsheets are added frequently, and all are available at the sessions - together with the music for some of the songs.
Music Hall
Come along to sing your favourite music hall songs and recite you favourite monologues. The session will be run informally in the style of a folk singaround.
We'll welcome all types of songs, humorous or non-humorous that may or may not have come from the music hall tradition of the UK, Ireland, or elsewhere.
This event will run every few months; look out for the next one.