Welcome to the Cincinnati Open Band Web Page


The Open Band plays at the regular Cincinnati Monday Night Contra Dances in Wyoming, OH, about once every two months (click on http://www.cincinnaticontradance.org/ for more information).  Currently, we are scheduled to play on the following dates in 2009:

Feb. 23
Apr. 20
Jun. 15

The Open Band is, as its name implies, open to all!  Whether you are a beginning musician, an experienced one new to the area, or something else entirely, you are are welcome to sit it.  We do have rehearsals, but you are still welcome to come and play even if you haven't rehearsed before.  If you want to know when and the next rehearsal is, contact Rick Boyce (email given below). 

Some of our tunes come from a collection called the Kentucky Open Band Contra Tunes.  However, others have been added as we have played together for a while. 

If you would to be added to the email list, where you will receive information about upcoming reheasals and gigs, contact Rick Boyce. 

Tune Information

Our sets, with all tunes listed in the order given below:  Open Band Sets.pdf
We have so many tunes that I've started a new file:  Open Band Sets II.pdf

To get pdfs of tunes by themselves, click on the links given below. 
If there is no link, you will (usually) find them in here:  KY Contra Tunes.pdf

Cincinnati Open Band Set List

Set list:
1. Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine / Quarry Cross
2. Down the Brae / Campbell's Farewell to Redcastle
3. Flowers of Edinburgh / West Fork Gals
4. Green Mountain Petronella / Petronella
5. Johnny Cope / Twenty-eighth of January
6. s'ann ile / Morrison's Jig
7. Seneca Square Dance / Sandy Boys
8. Farewell to Whiskey / Scollay's Reel
9. Cat In the Hopper / Coleraine
10. Julianne Johnson / June Apple
11. Growling Old Man & Grumbling Old Woman / Red Haired Boy
12. Fair Jenny's Jig / Gaspé Reel
13. Reel de Montréal / Set de la Baie St. Paul
14. Staten Island Hornpipe / Dancing Bear
15. Kesh Jig / Tobin's Favorite / Jump at the Sun
16. Far from Home / War Hent Karrigorach
17. Saddle the Pony / A Scarce O'Tatties
18. Idlewild Jig / Bert Fergeson
19. Road to Boston / Skolvan Doubl Plinn / Meeting of the Waters
20. Pays de Haut / Old French / Kitchen Girl
21. Snug in the Blanket / Hag's Purse / Cliffs of Moher
22. Batchelder's Reel / Lady of the Lake
23. Liberty / Robertson's Reel / Drums and Guns
24. Star above the Garter / Shandon Bells / Trip to Sligo
25. The West End / Flowers of Edinburgh / Sleep Soond I'da Morning
26. Ned Kendall's Hornpipe / Growling Old Man and Woman / Mason's Apron
27. Soldier's Joy / John Sharp's Hornpipe / The 28th of January

Waltzes:
Ash Grove / Planxty Hewlett[New]
Ashokan Farewell
Barton Creek Waltz
Ice on the Water (with harmony)
Leaving Brittany / Pernod Waltz (both tunes on one page)
Leon's Waltz
The New Land
Planxty Fanny Powers (with harmonies)
The Rose by the Door
Tombigbee Waltz (with Maury's cool harmonies)
Watching the River Run

Polkas:
Around the Fairy Fort
Countryside Polka
Nova Scotia Polka (in G, switch into A if we're feeling frisky!)
Painter's Polka
Riding on a Load of Hay

Some new tunes we are working on:

Reels
Bouchard's Hornpipe
Chinky Pin
Cold Frosty Morning
Devil's Dream
Dick Gossip's
Dinky's Reel
Durang's Hornpipe
Elzic's Farewell
Fisher's Hornpipe
Forked Deer
The Girl I Left Behind Me
Good for the Tongue
Green Willis
Hughie Shorty's Reel
Hull's Victory
Judy's Reel
Le Larmes aux Yeux[New]
Levantine's Barrel
Mad Dan
Mississippi Sawyer
Miss Thompson's
Morpeth Rant
Old Grey Cat
Over the Waterfall
Paddy on a Hand Car
Paddy on the Railroad
Père Doiron
Reel de Jeune Mariés
Reel Sainte-Antoine
Rakes of Mallow
Rickett's Hornpipe
Saint Anne's Reel
Shenendoah Falls
Ships Are Sailing

Jigs
Balleykeal Jig
Ballykeal Jig (another version)
Blue Jig
Connaught Man's Rambles
Haste to the Wedding
Joanie's Jig
Kitty McGee
The Long, Hot Shower
Money in Both Pockets
Mug of Brown Ale
Reverend Brother's Jig
Road to Lisdoonvarna
Swallowtail Jig
Tenpenny Bit

Waltzes
Seamus O'Brien
Sussex Waltz
Très Elegante

Polkas



Updated 4/10/09