Tucson, AZNORTHWEST PRACTICE 1st Saturday of the Month
NANINI Library 7300 N. Shannon Rd Tucson, AZ 85741 DATE: May 2, 2026
10 am - Noon Bring your materials listed below for this practice:
Note if Tab is not in General folder check out Saturday Folder or under other folders such as Gospel or Holiday before asking for tabs. Warmup song: First Hour: Round Robin Call out Please use call out songs from the Books we use or favorites from commonly played tunes. We prefer not trying to introduce new songs during this time so everyone gets a chance of leading a song Thank you. 2nd Hour: -- IN THE TEMPORARY SAT. FOLDER: 1 week before practice (April 25, 2026) PENNY WHISTLE following Second Hour: SEE INFORMATION UNDER SW PENNYWHISTLE PRACTICE "OUR PENNYWHISTLE PLAYLIST:" FOR SONG INFO. SOUTHWEST PRACTICE 3rd Wednesday of the Month
Mt Zion Lutheran Church 4520 W Ajo Hwy Tucson Az 85746 Remember to bring Room Donation DATE: April 15, 2026
10 am - Noon - Pennywhistle 12:15 to 1 pm Note if Tab is not in General folder check out Wednesday Folder or under other folders such as Gospel or Holiday before asking for tabs.
First Hour: Warm up song: Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss [ arr. S. Seifert ] -- Join the Jam, pg. 38 Round Robin Call out Please use call out songs from the Books we use or favorites from commonly played tunes. We prefer not trying to introduce new songs during this time so everyone gets a chance of leading a song Thank you. Second Hour:
2nd Quarter [Apr./May/June] : Ballads, Spirituals, Classical ** ALL in TDE website's General Folder, UNLESS INDICATED ELSEWHERE**: Songs in RED were previously in Specialty folders and will need to be obtained from the Librarian at practice. BALLADS -- **One Morning In May -- arr. Carol Brodginski; CAPO 1 Squire Wood's Lamentation on Refusal of His Halfpence -- arr. MH Samuels The Waters of The James (Robbie Wells); arr. -- m h Morgan. kadc tab; Melody & Harmony pages [ NOTE: you may also want to try this same song, arranged by Carol Crocker ] CLASSICAL -- Merry Widow Waltz [4 parts] -- arr. Tull Glazener SPIRITUALS -- LOCATED in TDE's GOSPEL/HYMN PAGE How Can I Keep From Singing? -- arr. M H Samuels Antioch -- arr. J. Collins, CAPO 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IN THE TEMPORARY WED. FOLDER: 1 week before practice (April 8, 2026) Both songs in red above were previously in Wed or Sat folders so if you need them you will need to get them from the librarian at practice or have him send them to you. PENNYWHISTLE:
MT Zion's fellowship hall. (Because of no enclosure we need to be mindful of how frequently high notes are played during practice so we do not disturb staff.) OUR PENNYWHISTLE PLAYLIST: CURRENT SONGS: Band in a Book - Irish Tunes by Guy George MacPherson's Lament Road to Lisvoondarna Southwind Harvest Home Joy of My Life Planxty Fanny Poer Soldier's Joy The Parting Glass PHOTOCOPIED SONGS From Erin Brooks - pennywhistle, flute & mandolin player My Darling Asleep Quimper Reel de la Petite Misere May also use Tunes for Two or More Vol 1,2,3 for melody and harmony songs. Books we use:
Tunes for Two or More Books Vol 1, 2, 3 Zanetti/Lassi Join the Jam Books 1 and 2 Seifert First 50 Songs - S Eulberg Follow Me Merrily - M MacNeil - J Baker Rehearsal Folder (of commonly played Tunes) Will be updated as soon as the new list is being compiled! Candy Girl - J Collins Castles of Dromore - Morgan Coleman's March - L Collins Columbus Stockade Blues Fiddler Has Played the Last Waltz for the Night - Larrabee Foggy Dew - Hallelujah - Cohen /C Brodginski John Stinson # 2 June's Lullaby - D Larrabee Midnight on the Water - Seifert Old Man River - B Kaun Parting Glass - J Armstrong River - B Stains Rosen The Beau - S Trump Soldier's Joy - Seifert Westphalia Waltz - L Collins Wild Mountain Thyme - Strong |
Up Coming Events / TDE News:UPDATES:
March update:
I was asked if there is a way to do a search for a song in the folder pages. Our host program does not allow this but most web browsers do allow you to do a page search. Here is how to do it.
June 7, 2025
This next quarter (Jan, Feb, March) we will be doing To be Announced Soon for our main song lists for the second hour of our gathering.
There was a poster placed for people to vote on the what genres they would like to do during the next few quarters. Here are the results of the voting: TDE Theme List -16 people voted (4 choices each) Waltz 10 Folk Songs 8 Jam Tunes 7 Ballads 7 Spirituals 4 Classical 4 Lullabies 3 Glazener 3 * For songs we have permission to use Seifert JTJ 3 Hymns 2 Show Tunes 2 Joe Collins 1 * For Books we have or songs we have permission for. Larry Conger 1 * for songs we have permission to use Denise Parker will assign the song list themes for the following quarters according to the rating list above. NOTE Some of the lower number requests may not be for a full quarter depending on the number of ALLOWED songs we have permission to use from those Artists or due to copy-right issues (show Tunes). |
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