Sheet Music and Suggested Tunes for 24-hour Folkathon 2026
Sheet Music and Suggested Tunes for 24-hour Folkathon 2026
Opening and Closing Sessions (Friday and Saturday 19:00)
Midnight Session (Saturday 00:00-00:30)
Suggested night-time-themed tunes:
Bedbreaker, The
Black Nag
Black Rogue
Blackberry Quadrille, The
Blackthorn Stick, The
Da Slockit Light (lights going out in the late evening)
Dark Girl Dressed in Blue
Dark Island
From Dusk 'til Dawn
Little Burnt Potato
Man in the Moon
March of St Timothy (written by Judi Morningstar)
Merry Blacksmith, The
Midnight on the Water
My Darling Asleep
Seven Stars
Sleep Soond in da Mornin'
Star Above the Garter, The
Star of Munster
Star of the County Down
Starry Night for a Ramble
Speed Centunery (Saturday 05:00-06:15)
Play all tunes once through only
Find out more about the Centunery on the Centunery website.
1: One More Dance and Then (G)
2: Twin Sisters (G)
3: Three Sea Captains (G)
4: Leek Soup (D)
5: Sion ap Ifan (D)
6: The Flowers of the Thorn (Am)
7: Alexandrine March (G)
8: Rogue's March (D)
9: Captain Lanoe's (G)
10: Smugglers' Wedding Dance (G)
11: Jack Robinson (G)
12: Great North Run (G)
13: Officers' Polka (G)
14: Wednesday Night (G)
15: Family Jig (Major Mackie's) (D)
16: Uncle's Jig (Louisberg Square) (G/D)
17: Roman Wall (G)
18: St George's Day (G)
19: Starry Night for a Ramble (D)
20: Oyster Girl (G)
21: Astley's Ride (D)
22: Davy Davy Knick Knack (G)
23: Rochdale Coconut Dance (Em/G)
24: Brighton Camp (G)
25: The Sloe (D)
26: Horse's Bransle (G/Gm)
27: Because he was a Bonny Lad (G)
28: Nancy (D)
29: Huntsman's Chorus (G)
30: Midnight on the Water (D)
31: Loch Ruan (D)
32: Uist Tramping Song (G)
33: Bagpipers (G)
34: Waiting for the Federals (G)
35: The Tip Top Polka (G)
36: The Dark Girl Dressed in Blue (D)
37: The Girl with the Blue Dress On (G)
38: The Merry Blacksmith (D)
39: Colman's March (D)
40: Down Home Waltz (G)
41: Black Nag (Am)
42: Grimstock (D)
43: Sommarvals (G)
44: Emma's Waltz (Em)
45: Walter Bulwer's 2 (G/D)
46: Walter Bulwer's 1 (G/D)
47: All in a Garden Green (G)
48: Gathering Peascods (G)
49: Queen's Delight (D)
50: Bath Carnival (G)
51: Mad Moll of the Cheshire Hunts (G)
52: Blarney Pilgrim (G)
53: Banish Misfortune (D)
54: The Scartaglen Polka (G)
55: Knocknaboul (G)
56: The Quarryman (D)
57: The Little Burnt Potato (G)
58: The Lemonville Jig (D)
59: Liberty (D)
60: Redwing (G)
61: The White Cockade (G)
62: Corn Riggs (G)
63: Tommy Bhetty's Waltz (G)
64: Long Ashton Schottische (D)
65: Ned O'Connor (Em)
66: Prowling Fox (D)
67: Captain Byng (G)
68: Bramble Jig (G)
69: Merrily Kiss the Quaker (G)
70: Da Lounge Bar (D)
71: Mouse in the Kitchen (A)
72: Kerfunten (D)
73: Pat Horgan's (D)
74: Maggie in the Woods (G)
75: Britches full of Stitches (A)
76: O'Keefe's (Am)
77: Old Favourite (G)
78: Going to the Well for Water (D)
79: O'Neill's March (Em)
80: Polka d'Aveyron (G)
81: Polka de l'Auvergne (G)
82: Dartford Camp (D)
83: Up the Sides and Down the Middle (D)
84: Hewlett (D)
85: Dan MacDonald's Polka (D)
86: Sweeney's Polka (A)
87: Moll Rua (G)
88: Comb Your Hair and Curl It (Em)
89: Old Molly Oxford (D)
90: Old Tom of Oxford (D)
91: Dark Island (G)
92: History Man (G)
93: A Moment of Madness (G)
94: J. B. Milne (A)
95: Alabama Jubilee (D)
96: Oh Johnny (D)
97: Road to the North (D)
98: Mazurka Limousin (Em)
99: Cock o' the North (G)
100: The Hundred Pipers (A)
Bristol Spelmanslag (Saturday 09:30-10:30)