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Student Resources
Traditional Singing Classes

Welcome back everyone! Looking forward to singing lots of lovely songs this new term. We'll start the term with 'Siúil A Rún', 'Home By Barna' and 'Nead Na Lachan' which are new to all classes. See practice tracks below.
Listening and singing along will help the younger children to learn the words, and help the more experienced singers with ornamentation and phrasing.
There are lots of practice tracks from previous years below also, which will be new to some students. Lyrics available by clicking the music note icon on each track.
Harmony Practice
Hi All,
Practice tracks below for singers learning 'Blue is the Eye', 'Cucanandy', 'Caledonia', 'I'll Tell Me Ma' ,'Red is the Rose' and 'Silent Night' harmonies.

Fleadh Songs
Practice tracks below for Fleadh singers. These tracks are guidelines to help with choosing your songs and please feel free to listen to other versions of the songs and change the ornamentation to the way you'd like to sing it. Traditional singing is all about telling a story and every singer tells the story in their own way.
For the U-12 singers, each singer sings two songs of their own choice, one slow and one lively.
For U-15 and U-18 singers, each singer picks two slow songs and two lively songs, the adjudicator will choose one song from the list and the singer picks a second contrasting song (one fast and one lively song to be sung).
Singers- please practice your two (or four) chosen songs every day. Our Friday class will be an opportunity to practice singing your songs and I am looking forward to hearing all your own lovely versions of the songs you have chosen.
Slow Fleadh Songs

Other slow songs suitable for Fleadh are listed below, with the singers name of a good traditional version of the song in brackets:
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Shores of Lough Bran (Rita Gallagher)
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Blackwater Side (Rita Gallagher)
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Lough Sheelin Side
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Carrig River (The County Wexford Traditional Singers)
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John Adair (Rita Gallagher)
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Brockagh Braes (Geordie Hanna)
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Home I Left Behind
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My Blue Eyed Mountain Queen (Anne Mulqueen)
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Willie the Ploughboy
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Padraig Óg Mo Chroí
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Sweet Kingwilliamstown
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Where the Mulcair River Flows
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Boys of Barr Na Sraíde (Donie Nolan)
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The Lady of Loughrea
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The Streams of Bunclody (Phil Berry)
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Slieve Gallion Braes (Rita Gallagher)
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The Hills Around Listowel
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Blackbird of Sweet Avondale
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Skibereen (Joe Heaney)
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Valley of Knockanure (Joe Heaney)
Lively Fleadh Songs

Other lively songs suitable for Fleadh are:​​
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P Stands for Paddy (Líadan)
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Great Big Roaming Ass (jnodowd)
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My Father's Cabin Small
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Come With Me Over the Mountain (Michael C. O'Laughlin or Joe Heaney)
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My Bonny Cuckoo
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Road to Clady
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Eileen O'Neill
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Little Brigid Flynn
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The Kilmacthomas Girl
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Colcannon / The Little Skillet Pot
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Me Bit of a Stick (Barry Gleeson)
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Horo Johnny
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The Auld Sunday Dinner (Paddy Berry)
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Eileen O'Grady
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