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NORTHWEST PRACTICE   1st Saturday of the Month
​NANINI Library
7300 N. Shannon Rd
Tucson, AZ 85741

DATE: June 7, 2025  NOTE TIME CHANGE
 Noon - 2:30 PM Pennywhistle practice to follow
 ​Bring your materials listed below for this practice:
​Note if songs not in General folder check out Saturday Folder or under other folders such as Gospel or Holiday. 
​First Hour: 
​Warmup song: _
Booth Shot Lincoln_________________
Round Robin Call out songs from the Books we use or favorites from commonly played tunes.
​
2nd Hour: * songs not listed in Saturday folder are in general or other folders

Tombigbee Waltz, MH, Tull Glazener
4 Leaf Clover Waltz, Andry
Rose of Sharon Waltz, strummed version, Andry
Saro Waltz, strummed version, Andry 

PENNY WHISTLE following Second Hour:
from Irish Tunes  - "Band in a Book" by Guy George
Current Songs:
MacPherson's Lament
Road to Lisvoondarna
Southwind

New songs to try:
Harvest Home
Joy of My Life
Planxty Fanny Poer
Soldier's Joy
The Parting Glass

May also use Tunes for Two or More Vol 1,2,3 for melody and harmony songs.
​

SOUTHWEST PRACTICE    3rd Wednesday of the Month
Mt Zion Lutheran Church   
Remember to bring Room Donation
4520 W Ajo Hwy
Tucson Az 85746
DATE: May 21, 2025
10 am - Noon - Pennywhistle 12:15 to 1 pm
First Hour: 
​Warm up song: _"Wildwood Flower"__________________
Round Robin Call out songs from the Books we use or favorites from commonly played tunes.
Second Hour: 
Waltzes (3/4 time) -- as many as time allows! :
-- IN THE TEMPORARY WED. FOLDER: 2 weeks before practice
*Lover's Waltz -- J. Unger
          Trish brought in weeks ago
-- from, "Follow Me Merrily"  M MacNeal / J Baker.
    * Dona Nobis Pacem, pg.6
    * Oh, How Lovely Is The Evening, pg.16
    * How Great Is The Pleasure, pg. 8
---In General Tab--
    *Skye Boat Song -- unknown
    *Plantxy Irwin (Melody & Harmony) -- Beth Lassi
    *Merry Widow Waltz_4 [Dulcimers 1, 2 & 3] -- arr. Tull Glazener
*Skye Boat Song -- unknown
*Plantxy Irwin (Melody & Harmony) -- Beth Lassi
*Merry Widow Waltz_4 [Dulcimers 1, 2 & 3] -- arr. Tull Glazener
*Skye Boat Song -- unknown
*Plantxy Irwin (Melody & Harmony) -- Beth Lassi
*Merry Widow Waltz_4 [Dulcimers 1, 2 & 3] -- arr. Tull Glazener
-- IN THE TEMPORARY WED. FOLDER:

*Lover's Waltz -- J. Unger (Trish Ferguson brought us photocopies of this.)

-- from the J. Baker & M. MacNeil book, "Follow Me Merrily" . . .
    * Dona Nobis Pacem, pg.6
    * Oh, How Lovely Is The Evening, pg.16
    * How Great Is The Pleasure, pg. 8
PENNYWHISTLE:
MT Zion's fellowship hall. Because of no enclosure so we need to be mindful of how frequently high notes are used during practice so we do not disturb staff.) 
Irish Tunes  - Band in a Book by Guy George
Current Songs:

MacPherson's Lament
Road to Lisvoondarna
Southwind

New songs to try
Harvest Home
Joy of My Life
Planxty Fanny Poer
Soldier's Joy
The Parting Glass


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 soon!

  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 / Brodginski
  John Stinson # 2
  June's Lullaby - Larrabee
  Parting Glass -  Armstrong
  River - Stains
  Rosen The Beau - S Trump 
  Westphalia Waltz - L Collins
  Wild Mountain Thyme - Strong

Up Coming Events / TDE News:


UPDATES:

April 29, 2025
Greetings,
We wanted to get this information out as soon as possible.
Anne Magee contacted me about our first Saturday practices for June and July at Nanini Library. There was a conflict with the times we are using so the library scheduled us for Noon to 2:30 pm for these two months. As of today, after that we will return our normal 10:00 practice times.
We know many people have plans for summer and this may cause a conflict for some of us, but the library had things scheduled for summer events and this is what time schedule we could get. Be advised there will possibly still be some people in the room when we arrive at noon so please enter quietly or wait until they are finished to enter.
Thank you,
Anne and Bob
This quarter (April May June) we will be doing Waltzes for our main song lists for the second hour of our gathering.

 At the Saturday practice there was a poster placed for people to vote on the what genres they would like to do during the next quarter. Here are the results of the voting:
TDE Theme List -16 people voted (4 choices each)

Waltz 10 ->  Current Quarter
Folk Songs 8
Jam Tunes 7
Ballads 7
Spirituals 4
Classical 4
Lullabies 3
Glazener Songs 3 * For songs we have permission to use
Seifert Songs 3
Hymns 2
Show Tunes 2
Joe Collins Month 1 * For Books we have or songs we have permission for.
Larry Conger Month 1 * for songs we have permission to use



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