Next Session - August 24, 2025 3-5 p.m.
The Session
You can find tunes to play, find sessions to play them in, and join in discussions about the music. You can also find events (like concerts and festivals), or explore the track listings of recordings
https://thesession.org/
Traditional Tune Archive
The Semantic Index of North American, British and Irish traditional instrumental music with annotations
https://tunearch.org/wiki/TTA
Main Webpage: https://pghsessions.com/
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1Aa3j8mxsb/
Lowland and Border Pipers' Society
LBPS is a great resource for many lowland and border pipe tune settings. Their site is full of interesting resources as well as a shop to purchase tunes from. I am sure there are pipers in Pittsburgh with copies of these tune books if you'd like to borrow or peruse!
https://lbps.net/j3site/index.php
LBPS Blue Book
Usually available for free to pipers attending Society events, this small publication is now available for download to all. It contains 39 pages of tunes not generally available in other Society publications, but which make up a collection of the Committee's 'favourites'.
Get The Blue Book
Ceol Sean - Highland Bagpipe
Home to over 7,000 free bagpipe settings. Ceol Sean was founded on the belief that there is a vast body of 'lost or forgotten' pipe music from the first half of the twentieth century and before that would benefit the piping community if only it could be made easily available
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast Tune Collections
Jeremy Kingsbury has curated this list of available historical tunes collections. You may also find his early bagpipe history podcast fascinating. Definitely dig into both.
We're pipers and aren't super familiar with what's out there for fiddles. If you have a suggestion, let us know!