BLACKTHORN BAND


Confirmed Dates 2008

This is a list of dates when the band is busy, and also shows all the free Saturdays when we are available for work (though we are also available on other days of the week too!). Mannie & Fergus also play with ThingumaJig hence all the unavailable dates.


Festivals booked so far for 2008
  • Crawley Folk Festival
    June 28th afternoon.
  • Sidmouth Folk Week
    2nd August 8.00pm
    5th August 8.00pm

    2008
    02/08Sidmouth Folkweek Anchor
    04/08Sidmouth Folkweek Volunteer
    05/08Sidmouth Folkweek Anchor
    09/08Not Available
    16/08Wedding, Worplesdon
    23/08Not Available
    30/08Not Available
    06/09Not Available
    12/09Party, West Chiltington
    13/09Event, Putney
    20/09Not Available
    26/09Wedding, Essex (afternoon)
    27/09Not Available
    04/10Mencap event, Worthing
    11/10Party, Cuckfield
    18/10Not Available
    25/10
    01/11
    08/11
    15/11Party, Bromley
    22/11
    28/11Event tbc
    29/11
    06/12Not Available
    13/12Not Available
    20/12
    27/12Not Available
    31/12
    2009
    03/01Party, Brighton
    10/01
    17/01
    24/01
    31/01Not Available
    07/02Not Available
    14/02Not Available
    21/02Not Available
    28/02Not Available
    07/03
    14/03
    21/03
    28/03
    04/04Not Available
    11/04
    18/04
    25/04
    02/05
    09/05Not Available
    16/05
    23/05
    30/05Party, St Albans
    06/06
    13/06
    20/06
    27/06
    04/07
    11/07
    18/07Not Available
    25/07
    01/08
    08/08
    15/08
    22/08
    29/08
  • Blackthorn Tunes and Songs

    Airs

  • Londonderry Air
  • For Ireland I'd not Tell Her Name
  • Carolan's Draught
  • Carolan's Concerto
  • Give me Your Hand
  • Women of Ireland/Legacy

    Hornpipes

  • Love Will you Marry Me/Byrnes
  • Alexander's/Off to California
  • Joe Cooleys/Fairy Hornpipe
  • Cronin's/Flowing Tide
  • Dance of the Honeybees
  • Harvest Home/Boys of Blue Hill
  • Homebrew/Homeruler/Kitty's Wedding
  • King of the Fairies

    Jigs

  • Banks of Loughgowna/Roaring Barmaid
  • Bill Harte's Favourite
  • Calliope House/Da Brig/Foula Reel/Glasgow City Police Pipers
  • Clare Mann/Rolling Waves/Stan Chapman's
  • Cock of the North/Hundred Pipers/Majot McKie's
  • Morrisson's
  • Eavesdropper/Out on the Ocean
  • Gander in the Pratie Hole/Humours of Ballymore
  • I want to be Near You
  • Out on the Ocean/Tripping Upstairs
  • Oyster Girl/Guid Man
  • Maid Behind the Spinning Wheel
  • Old Hag you have Killed Me/Shandon Bells/Kesh
  • Hullichan Jig/Mucking O' Geordie's Byre
  • Planxty Johnson
  • Banish Misfortune/The Blarney Pilgrim
  • Sweets of May/Dingle Regatta
  • Kathleen Hehir/Atholl Highlanders
  • Tom Billy's/Coppers & Brass
  • Gold Ring

    March / Mazurka

  • Marie's Wedding
  • Sonny's Mazurka Set
  • Shoo the Donkey (Warsoviana)
  • 42nd Highlanders/Bonnie Lass of Fyvie
  • Scotland Brave/No Awa/Rowan Tree/ScotBrave
  • Tipperary/Pack up Troubles/Dolly Grey
  • Slieve Aughty/New Caledonia/Thistle of Scotland

    Polkas

  • Chieftains 3 Polkas
  • La Russe/Jenny Lind
  • Johnny Leary's Polkas
  • Maguire's Favourite/Maggie in the Wood
  • Murphys/£42 Cheque/John Ryan's
  • Tip Top/Quaker/Walter Bulwer's

    Reels

  • Blanchland Races
  • Dashing White Sargeant/My Love She's But a Lassie Yet
  • Dorset Four Hand/Jimmy Allen/Salmon Tails
  • Haughton House
  • Humours of Ballyconnel/Golden Keyboard/Speed Plough
  • Far From Home/Foxhunters Reel
  • John's Reels
  • Junior Crehan's/Revies No9/Music in the Glen
  • Lad o' Beirnes/Branholm
  • London Lasses/Torn Jacket
  • Merry Blacksmith/Silver Spear
  • Miss Thompsons/Westwind
  • Mountain Road/Cooleys/Jacksons No2
  • Musical Priest/ Wise Maid
  • Nancy
  • Navvy on the Line/The Charlwood Reel
  • Nine Points of Roguery/Star of Munster
  • Paddy Taylor's/Old Blackthorn/Frank's Reel
  • Revies No9/The Boy in the Gap
  • Sally Gardens/Mason's Apron
  • Sleep Soond/Galley Watch/Spirit of Whiskey
  • Soldier's Joy/Fairy Dance
  • Starling on the Wall/Miss Monaghan/Ladies Pantalettes
  • Trip to Herve's/Trip to Windsor
  • Trow's/Spootiskerry/New Rigged Ship
  • Jacksons No 1/Jacksons No 2
  • Sally Gardens/Masons Apron


  • Sidmouth Folkweek 2005

    Circle Dances/Horas

  • Havanagila
  • Djatchko Kolo

    Schottisches

  • Orange and Blue/The Smith's a Gallant Fireman
  • Mudgee/Rigs of Marlow

    Slides

  • O Keefe's/Denis Murphy's
  • John Kelly's / Going to the Well for Water
  • Merrily Kissed the Quaker/Con Cassidy's

    Slip Jigs

  • Snowy Path/Foxhunter's Jig
  • Rocky Road/Another Jig/Foxhunter's Jig

    Waltzes

  • Henry McDermot Roe
  • Hewlett/Planxty Irwin
  • Si Bheag Si Mhor/South Wind/Fanny Power
  • Margaret's Waltz
  • Tommy Bhetty's/Munster Cloak
  • Tramps & Hawkers/Banks & Braes
  • Neil's Waltz/Fakenham Fair
  • Catalina

    Songs

  • All for me Grog
  • Banks of the Sweet Primeroses
  • Black is the Colour
  • Black Velvet Band
  • Brown Eyed Girl
  • Bonny Lass of Fyvie
  • Carrickfergus
  • Cliffs of Dooneen
  • Cunla
  • Cockles & Mussels
  • Curragh of Kildare
  • Dirty old Town
  • Fields of Athenry
  • If I Should Fall From Grace With God
  • I'll Tell me Ma
  • Irish Rover
  • Island of St Helena
  • Isle of France
  • Jock Stewart
  • Johnny Sands
  • Jolly Beggarman
  • Just as the Tide was Flowing
  • Leaving of Liverpool
  • Loch Lomond
  • Mairis Wedding
  • Mermaid
  • Moonshiner
  • Murshin Durkin
  • Neat Little Bunch of Rushes
  • New York Girls
  • Nutting Girl
  • Paddy Lay Back
  • Rambling Rover
  • Sally Gardens
  • Sally MacLennane
  • Seven Nights Drunk
  • She Moved Through The Fair
  • South Australia
  • Star of the County Down
  • Sweet Nightingale
  • Sweet Thames Flow Softly
  • What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor
  • When You Say Nothing at All
  • Whiskey in the Jar
  • Wild Colonial Boy
  • Wild Mountain Thyme
  • Wild Rover
  • Yarmouth Town