Mally's Session Selection

Mally's Session Selection is a wide-ranging collection of popular traditional tunes chosen with the folk session musician in mind. Bringing together repertoire commonly heard at festivals and regular sessions, the book provides players with a varied selection of music for joining in with musicians from different backgrounds and traditions.

Traditional music sessions can vary enormously depending on the musicians who turn up. Festival sessions in particular can bring together players of different ages, abilities and instruments, from experienced performers to musicians attending their first session. The repertoire can also be very different from the tunes played at a local session, making a broad selection of familiar music particularly useful.

This collection brings together core session repertoire ranging from relatively easy tunes to more challenging material. It includes polkas, reels, rants, hornpipes, jigs and waltzes, with music drawn from English, Irish, Scottish, Northumbrian and American traditions.

The tunes are suitable for the wide variety of instruments commonly found in traditional sessions, including accordion, banjo, concertina, fiddle, flute, mandolin, melodeon, pipes and tin whistle, alongside accompanying instruments such as bouzouki and guitar.

For musicians making their first visits to folk festivals or traditional music sessions, the collection provides a useful repertoire to learn and develop. More experienced players can use it to broaden their selection of tunes and find common repertoire when playing with musicians from different session traditions.

Key Features:

• Wide-ranging collection of popular traditional session tunes
• Designed around repertoire commonly heard at folk festivals and music sessions
• Includes tunes ranging from relatively easy to more challenging
• Features polkas, reels, rants, hornpipes, jigs and waltzes
• Includes English traditional tunes
• Includes Irish traditional tunes
• Includes Scottish traditional tunes
• Includes Northumbrian traditional tunes
• Includes American traditional tunes
• Suitable for a wide range of traditional melody instruments
• Useful for musicians attending their first traditional music session
• Ideal for developing a broader session repertoire
• Suitable for both festival sessions and regular local sessions
• Provides common repertoire for musicians from different traditional backgrounds
• Useful for beginners, developing players and experienced session musicians
• Includes a FREE Hamcor Publishing Treble Clef Key Signature Bookmark

For musicians who enjoy playing traditional music with others, Mally's Session Selection provides a diverse core repertoire for sessions throughout the year, combining familiar festival favourites with music from several traditions and offering plenty of material for both developing and experienced players.

The tunes are:

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Every Mally's Session Selection music book includes a FREE Hamcor Publishing Treble Clef Key Signature Bookmark a practical reference tool to help with reading and learning key signatures.

• Premium 350gsm silk card, laminated and printed on both sides
• 210mm 55mm
• All major key signatures with their relative minor keys
• Staff note names for lines and spaces
• Ideal for flautists, students and teachers
• A useful companion for lessons, practice and exam preparation