Other Sources

Here’s some other sources of tunes you might find useful. If you look at nothing else make sure you check out Charlie Montgomery’s tunes on this website.

Charlie Montgomery

Inishowen Traditional Music Project

Music from the Inishowen Peninsula, Donegal

The Northern Fiddler

Music and Musicians of Donegal and Tyrone

In a discussion on The Session, Allen Feldman had this to say about PDF copies of the book:

A year after the opening of the Irish Traditional Music Archive Eamonn and I donated the recordings, photographs and drawings to the ITMA with the agreement that there would be total public access to the archive. That has always been our motivating ethos which is why as 50% rights holder of the book’s copyright I do not object to the PDF of the Northern Fiddler under discussion.

Paddy Fahey tunes

Sets of tunes put together by Paddy O’Brien

Tommy Potts

Out of the box: the Blackie family collection

There’s a set of three music manuscript books in this collection. The tunes are Scottish fiddle(?) tunes brought to New Zealand in the early 1800s. There’s a nice digitizing project there for someone!

Further Listening

Dunedin Fiddle Orchestra

Miscellaneous Tune Books

Begged Borrowed and Stolen

Some other tunebooks from early days of ABC i.e. the 1990s

Sean Manning’s Sets (Dunedin)

You can also get copies of the ABC files that were used to generate some of these PDFs: