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SETS:Mr. Barky / Karl / Lady Doris / Peak Nouveau / Rosin the Beau / Gary / Luceo / Peter / Harmon's Peak

A. CONTRADANCE SETS: [czar]

Reels:

1. D Julie Ann Johnson / D New Five Cents / D Fortune [Art] 1/20
Three times each (adjustable); fiddle break at end of JAJ (whole B part),New Five Cents starts with all melody, Fortune starts guitar/banjo all melody (AABB)

2. D Shoo Fly / Amodal Kitchen Girl / D Angeline the Baker [Ernest]
Relax at start. Shoo Fly: Karl accordion. Kitchen Girl: Karl to Guitar. Start quiet & non-chordal (Ie, Karl plays melody).Angeline: Karl to bazouki Clean vocal backup for Angeline.

3. G Booth Shot Lincoln / G Seneca Square Dance / G The Girl I Left Behind
If singing, note AABB (sing starting 2nd A) - also faster "Booth" and watch speed on "Seneca."

4. D Rock the Cradle, Joe / D Petronella / D Jay Bird

5. Amodal June Apple / A Shady Grove / A Tater Patch
TP bodhran "wacketty boom" w/ E on fiddle for first A part.

6. D Spotted Pony / D Dubuque abde|d, / D Yellow Rose of Texas
Needs emphasis on Yellow Rose, start to distinguish.

7. D Buck Mountain / D Grasshopper Sitting on a Sweet Potato Vine / G Green Mountain Petronella Paul change banjoes between Grasshopper and Green Mountain; play to end of Grasshopper, start Green Mountain as fiddle duet one full repetition of tune

8. A Bill Cheatham / A Little Dutch Girl / A Stay All Night
All melody, no fiddles to start Little D. G.; All melody start of "Stay All N."

9. A Old Mother Flanagan / D Liberty / Dm Hungarian Dance [Ernest]
Ernest intro: Subtleties of Eastern Influence. Cleaner, relaxed transitions. Paul out last rep of Old Mother Flanagan, Karl to play open celtic stuff for full rep; fiddles out for first rep of Liberty

10. G Georgia Railroad / G Billy in the Low Land / G Shove That Pig's Foot a Little further into the Fire

11. D Mississippi Sawyer / D Johnny Don't Get Drunk / Amod Cold Frosty Morning
All start unison on "Johnny."

12. F Stone's Rag / C Billy in the Low Ground / C Stone's Rag

Jigs:

1. G Joy of my Life / Yakko's World / Out on the Ocean

2. D Tobin's Favorite / G Saddle the Pony / D Connaughtman's Rambles

Polkas:

1. D Egan's (F#ABA) / G The Murroe / Ador? Ballydesmond #2
2. G Maggie in the Woods/ D Ger O'Connor's / D Sunday Morning / A Bill Sullivan's
This PU was alluded to in this document, so I listed the correct titles & keys here. See "in Process" list for full notes, etc.

Waltzes:

1. D Tennessee / D Amelia's (Amelia's: DF#E/DF#E/DF#B/A...)
P/E start Amelia's. Need to determine #reps of each part of Amelia

2. D O'Hara's Cup: (D DF# AF#/BA GF# EF#...)
start Karl solo B part tag

3. D Cowboy Waltz / D Irene Goodnight
vs1: Sometimes I live in the country...
vs2: Last Saturday night...
vs3: I love Irene, God knows I do;
vs4: Quit yr rambling; quit yr gambling…

4. D Si Beag Si Mor / D Lord Inchiquin (disputed note: F# throughout, except for a G in the 2nd half of the B part) Afaik, that's the way everyone plays it, ie, not disputed - AF

Hambos:

1. D Karis Pers Polska: (A AB AG/GF# F#D F#A...)

B. NON-CONTRADANCE SETS

Reels:

1. A Liza Jane: [Art] 1/29
Art/Ernest fiddle duet: slow, Art Melody, start solo, Art gives foot.Starts with a single A-string drone, leading to count-in

2. Amyx Yew Piney Mountain [Paul] 1/22
Paul/Ernest duet, slow (tempo 90), 3 time through. Ernest plays wild note on last B part.
1. Paul counts in
2. Paul gives the foot
3. Paul immediately tunes back to A major.

3. G Cotton Eyed Joe [Art]
Karl duet fiddle/harmonica; call-response chorus (Art/Ernest voc.)

4. D Rally 'Round the Flag / D Year of Jubilo / D Golden Slippers
[Ernest intro]Art: strong start to Jubilo. Remember full stop before Slippers.
Karl: Conical brass whistle. Ernest: wooden whistle.Rally:Sometimes we don't play this piece, Karl & Ernest whistle,K melody, unornamented;Paul/Art duet at transition to Year of Jubilo; K accordion on YoJ and GS.Please distinguish more clearly between the pieces. Jubilo: more loping rhythm (long-short, long-short);Full Stop at end of Jubilo [replace last note w/empty space]; more stacatto rhythm to begin Golden Slippers with Karl playing right hand only for first bits to distinguish Karl plays melody on 3rd iteration. Follows CD arrangment.

5. D Sal's Got Mud Between Her Toes [Paul]
Art starts with potatoes.Art & Ernest fiddle, Paul banjo, Karl guitar, 3 part reel. Start all returns to pt. 1 quieter, then slow cresendo. Accent beats four and twelve of the B part. Four iterations.

C. SONGS

1. Angeline the Baker - D (in contra set #2)

2. Bold Fisherman - D

3. D Bony on the Isle of St. Helena [Ernest]
Ernest Intro. Art fiddle, Ernest fiddle/voc, Paul ban, Karl baz/voc. Start: Ernest fiddle solo 8 bars of "Retreat". After last verse, "Bonaparte's Retreat" twice through all together.

Oh Bony has come…
Oh Louisy…
Oh the rude rushin' waves...
Oh no more in St. Cloud…
Oh come all yous got wealth…

4. Buffalo Gals (D) / Colored Aristocracy (G)

5. Cluck Old Hen / Sally in the Garden - A dor

6. Cotton Eyed Joe - Art fiddle/voc, Karl harmonica, Ernest voc - G

7. D Crow Black Chicken [Karl]
A & E fiddle/chorus, Paul banjo/chorus,
Karl guitar/voc. Tighter Routing, esp ending
1. Full instrumental: fiddle/banjo
2. "Went up on the mountain," sung chorus, inst. chorus
3. "Chicken crow…long come an owl," sung chorus, inst. chorus
4. "Hardest work," sung chorus, inst. chorus
5. "Once I had a big farmhouse," sung chorus, inst. chorus
6. "Chicken crow…long come a Ford," sung chorus, inst. Chorus
7. [EqK]instrumental verse, inst. chorus,
[EqK] sung chorus EqK = "Ernest cues Karl" Note: Karl needs to eat the mic when singing.
Others get very quiet. Ernest joins K on
"Crow Black Chicken" at chorus.
8. D Drip Drip/Some Folks/La Bastringue "Some Folks" Set [Karl] 1/29 Ernest intro. Melodion starts with double A part, banjo joins for double B part, fiddles come in on return of A.Some folks sit and sigh...long to dieGet grey hairs...o'er their caresToil and save...themselves a graveLike to scold...dead and cold

9. Em Elanoy [Ernest] 1/29
Start w/only Guitar and voice.Inst Break between v2 and v3.End w/only Guitar and voice.

10. The Girl I Left Behind Me (sing) / Barlow Knife - G

11. Goodnight Irene - D

12. Hard Times - C

13. D I Ain't Got Nobody [Art] 1/22
Art intro: relationships/chickens.
Art Fiddle/Lead Vocal; Ernest Fiddle;
Paul Banjo; Karl Guitar, swingy pace:
not too slow, not too fast, just right. Ref CD
1. Play Cho
2. Sing Verse/Cho Mary/Dead
3. Play Verse/Cho
4. Sing Verse/Cho Kiss/Instead
5. Sing Verse/Cho Things/River
6. Play Cho
7. Sing Cho

14. Keep On the Sunny Side - D

15. Old Settler - G

16. D Sally Ann [Ernest] 1/22
Art fiddle, Ernest fiddle/voc, Paul banjo, Karl harm./voc; Paul solo starts-1 full iteration. (Did you ever… Sift that meal… Make my living… Sal's got a meatskin…) Art starts fiddle droning after E's 1st inst break, mostly drones thereafter, with some melody later on.

17. Some Folks - D (Art fiddle, Ernest fiddle/voc, Paul banjo, Karl melodian/voc)
(Sit and sigh, Get grey hairs, Toil and save, Like to scold)

18. Storms Are on the Ocean - C

19. There Was a Little Oak (The Tree Song) (K&E voice/fiddle duet) - G

Celtic Theme:

Harmon's Peak Celtic Set Lists
I.
Whiskey Before Breakfast D
v Jonny McAdoo D
Rock the Cradle Joe D
Boys of Blue Hill/ Home Ruler D
v Soldier's Joy D
Chief O'Neal's Favorite/ Tailor's Twist D
v Rosin the Beau G
Kesh Jig/ Boys of the Town G
Little Rabbit A
v Oak and Ash an Thorn Am
Dennis Murphy's Slide/ Star Above the Garter A
Kitchen Girl/ June Apple A
v Down in the Diving Bells G

II.
Morpath Rant D
Yellow Rose of Texas D
v Hills of Connamara D
St. Anne's Reel/ Wind That Shakes the Barley D
Jaybird D
v Mountain Dew D
Old Man Old Woman/ Rosetree D
Debuque D
Swallowtail/ Orphan G/Em
v Irish Rover/ Waynesborough G (can we play these two as a set?)
Campbell's Farewell to Redgap A
Seneca Square Dance G
v Whiskey Your the Devil G

III.
Sal's Got Mud Between Her Toes D
Trip to Durrow/ Earl's Chair/ Silver Spear D
v Girl I Left Behind Me/ Temperance G/Em
Fortune D
Dennis Murphy's Polka D
v Wild Mountain Thyme Bb
Year of Jubilo/ Golden Slippers D
Joy of My Life/ Out on the Ocean G
v Red Haired Boy/ Little Beggarman G
Growling Old Man, Grumbling Old Woman Am
Congress Reel Am
v Drip Drip Polka/ Some Folks Do/ La Bastraigne D
Texas A

Last Waltz:
Health to the Company

The following list details which tunes are known by XIAO LI from her books.

Reels: ( *unchanged from old Peak list.) (Bold is Xiao Li)

1. *D Julie Ann Johnson (md)/ D New Five Cents / D Fortune (md): three times each (adjustable); fiddle break at end of JAJ (whole B part), all melody start New Five Cents,guitar/banjo duet start Fortune

2. *D Shoo Fly / Amod Kitchen Girl (hd) / D Angeline the Baker (hd): Shoo Fly: Karl accordion; Kitchen Girl: start quiet & non-chordal, Karl switch to guitar; Angeline: K to bouzouki

3. *G Booth Shot Lincoln (hd) / G Seneca Square Dance (h,md) / G The Girl I Left Behind: if singing, note AABB (sing starting 2nd A) also faster Booth and watch speed on Seneca

4. *D Rock the Cradle, Joe (md) / D Petronella (hd) / D Jay Bird (hd)

5. *Amodal June Apple / A Shady Grove / A Tater Patch: TP bodhran "wacketty boom" w/ E on fiddle for first A part

6. *D Spotted Pony / D Dubuque abde|d, / D Yellow Rose of Texas
NEEDS EMPHASIS ON YELLOW ROSE START TO DISTINGUISH

7. *D Buck Mountain / D Grasshopper Sitting on a Sweet Potato Vine / G Green Mountain Petronella (hd) Paul change banjoes between Grasshopper and Green Mountain; play to end of Grasshopper, then start Green Mountain as fiddle duet one full repetition of tune

8. Nail that Catfish (G)(md) / Ducks on the Pond (md)(Amin) / Soldier's Joy (D) Make sure we have Ducks right. Paul will sit out on Catfish. [B,B, A,B, CBA, B,,,]

9. *A Bill Cheatham / A Little Dutch Girl (hd) / A Stay All Night: All melody and no fiddles to start Little Dutch Girl; All melody at start of Stay All Night

10. Hungarian Dance or Bourree de Nonhant (Dm) / Liberty (D)(hd) / Old Mother Flanagan (G)(h,md) ( Art will sit out, Paul will sit out the Bourree and last part of Liberty.)

11. G Georgia Railroad / G Billy in the Low Land / G Shove That Pig's Foot a Little Further into the Fire

12. Mississippi Sawyer (D) (hd) / Cold Frosty Morning (Amod) (all start unison on Johnny) / Johnny Don't Get Drunk (D)

13. *F Stone's Rag / C Billy in the Low Ground / C Stone's Rag

14. Rally Round the Flag / Year of Jubilo / Golden Slippers (this will work fine for contra if we play it that way.)

Jigs: (Paul may sit out on jigs)

1. Joys of my Life (hd)(G) / Out on the Ocean (hd) (G) / Cliffs of Moher (Am)

2. Swallow Tail / "Orphan" (Em) / ?

3. Tobin's Favorite(D) / Coleman's(D) / Kesh (G)

Polkas:

1. D Sunday Morning Polka / Em Riding on a Load of Hay (md): (F#GA D)(E,F# GA BE E)

2. Britches Full of Stitches (1st in "A" then in "D" and back to "A"; Art, Karl, Lee Anne & Peter know)

Waltzes:

1. D Tennessee/Amelia's: (Amelia's: DF#E/DF#E/DF#B/A...) Paul/Ernest start Amelia's

2. D O'Hara's Cup: (D DF# AF#/BA GF# EF#...) start Karl solo B part tag

3. D Cowboy Waltz/Irene Goodnight
vs1: Sometimes I live in the country...
vs2: Last Saturday night...
vs3: I love Irene, God knows I do;
vs4: Quit yr rambling; quit yr gambling, Quit staying out late at night!
Go home to your wife and your family, & Sit down by the fireside bright.

4. D Si Beag Si Mor (md) / Lord Inchiquin (disputed note: F# throughout, except for a G in the 2nd half of the B part)

5. Kevin Keegan's" (Em) Gary knows. Was nice. Suugested go into "Pretty Maid Milking the Cow"

6. "Petit Bal de la Marine" (Am/G)

7. "Planxty Fanny Powers" (G)

Hambos:

1. D Karis Pers Polska: (A AB AG/GF# F#D F#A...)

The following (of Xiao Li's music book) is not represented in the official Peak Contra List
I suggest these as ordered sets:

1. Gold Rush - A / Old Joe Clark - A / Boil the Cabbages - A

2. Red Haired Boy - A / Devil's Dream - A / Cherokee Shuffle - A

3. Little Rabbit - A - 64 bar and therefore acceptable

4. Saint Anne's Reel - D / Flop Eared Mule - D / Whiskey Before Breakfast - D

5. Blackberry Blossom - G / Flowers of Edinburgh - G / Temperance - G

6. Dixie Hoe Down - G / Sally Johnson - G / Colored Aristocracy - G

7. Ook Pic Waltz - G Waltz

8. Westfalia Waltz - G Waltz

9. Star of the County Down - Am Waltz

Suggestion:

We could learn her music, and she can learn some of the pieces that would allow her to play in already standing sets from Peak.

St. Pat's Day Set List with Paul and Xiao Li