Irish Music

[Ben]

Adapt some Pouges songs! Boat train works wonders, you just have to have vocals.

[fairweathertuba]

Adapt some Pouges songs! Boat train works wonders, you just have to have vocals.

Wow, sounds wonderful! But can you explain this in English please?

[TexTuba]

Wow, sounds wonderful! But can you explain this in English please?

English translation: GOOGLE!

I just woke up, simply typed what Ben wrote, and here's what I found...without having to scroll:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pogues
http://www.musicsonglyrics.com/P/pogues ... lyrics.htm

[Mark]

Do a Google search on "Irish Pub Sessions" and you should be able to find a ton of charts.

[Ben]

Ian, you made no mention of your audience, or their capacity for tolerating swearing. It IS St. Paddy's day, thus I thought it appropriate. In the past, I have played on pub crawls across the city.

Sounds like you have some good leads now anyway...

[Dan Schultz]

I have a set of "Hungry Five in Ireland" books but the instrumentation is a little short of what you asked for:

two clarinets
one trumpet
one trombone
one tuba

[Steve Marcus]

On a related subject, there is a delightful CD of mostly Irish tunes performed by Gary Buttery, tuba, and Gus Friedlander, mandolin. It's called "Tidal Wave." You can order the CD at http://flathammockpress.com/Tidal%20Wave.htm.

[David Richoux]

Look for "Irish Black Bottom" by Louis Armstrong - I don't know if there are any charts other than what Lu Watters arranged, but it is a great tune!
There are hundreds of Irish tunes that work very well with small brass/jazz ensembles but I doubt there are many published charts for them. Make it up as you go along!

[Arbeegee]

I'm sorry, I think I may be an antidentite.

(That's a Seinfeld reference, for the euphonium players. A euphonism. Just shoot me.)

RBG

[sloan]

Just a Dingle dangle...