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Celtic Christmas Songs for Tin Whistle

30 Celtic Christmas songs, arranged for Tin Whistle with fingering tablatures. Traditional songs from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Shetland Islands, Isle of Man, Brittany and England. Available on amazon.com

Songs in this volume

A Run Run
Arrane ny Cleane
Auld Lang Syne
Canu Cwnsela
Christmas Day in the Morning
Cutty Wren
Don Oíche Úd I Mbeithil
Duncormick Mummers’ Jig
Da Cold Nights o’Winter
Gaudete
Gloucestershire Wassailing Song
Here We Come a-Wassailing
Good People All
King Herod and the Cock
Love Came Down at Christmas
Moita Festa
O Cre Ta Dooiney
Now to Conclude our Christmas Mirth
Péh trouz zou ar en doar
Port an Dreoilín
Shelg yn Dreean
The Seven Joys of Mary
Song of Jerusalem
Suo-Gan
Sussex Mummers’ Carol
Taladh Chriosda
What Child Is This?
The Wren’s Polka
The Wrenboy’s Song
Ye Sons of Men

Seán Potts: Funeral of former Chieftains musician to take place (BBC News)

The funeral of Seán Potts, who was a founding member of Irish band The Chieftains, is due to take place in his native Dublin later on Friday.

He died on Tuesday aged 83.
Potts was best known for playing the tin whistle with the world-renowned traditional music group that he helped form in Dublin in 1962.
He left The Chieftains in 1979 and later became the honorary president of Na Píobairí Uilleann (association of uilleann pipers).
'Greatly missed' The association has offered its "sincere condolences to his family and to his many friends".
"Seán worked tirelessly all of his life to promote the uilleann pipes and Irish traditional music," it said in a statement.
"He will be greatly missed by the staff, board and members of Na Píobairí Uilleann."
Potts started his musical career as a member of the Irish traditional band, Ceoltóirí Chualann.
After forming a friendship with fellow whistle-player Paddy Moloney in the 1950s, the pair helped form The Chieftains, a group that Moloney still leads.
To date, the group has toured the world, recorded 58 albums, and won six Grammy awards.
Potts, who also played percussion instruments such as the bones and the bodhrán, left The Chieftains after struggling with the pressures of touring.
The band's website says his departure was prompted by a "particularly hair raising episode when flying through a storm in 1979 during their North American tour".
He later formed his own traditional music group - Bakerswell, which also toured the US.
Potts is survived by his wife, Bernie, and his four children.
His funeral service is due to take place at 11:30 GMT at the Church of Our Lady Help of Christians on Navan Road, Dublin.
After Requiem Mass he will be buried at Dardistown Cemetery.

Christmas Carols on Tin Whistle

30 traditional Christmas Carols with sheet music and fingering diagrams for Irish tin whistle. Simple, easy-to-follow arrangements of classic songs that kids will love, in an attactive illustrated edition. Free delivery with Amazon.

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Tin Whistle Tutor Book - Tradschool

Whistle tutor book available at: http://www.tradschool.com/en/tin-whistle-tutor/
Learn to play Irish traditional music on the whistle with this new tutor book from Tradschool

286 pages; with 429 accompanying audio tracks
104 tunes (28 children's & folk tunes + 76 traditional tunes)

This tutor book, with its accompanying audio files, is intended to give a complete introduction to playing Irish music in the traditional style on the tin whistle; it covers all from the very first notes on the instruments to the most advances ornamentation.
The book is broadly divided into two parts, with the shorter first part covering the basics of the whistle (pages 1-48) while the longer second part (pages 49-286) covers the playing of Irish traditional music on the instrument
It is currently available as a download containing 1 print-friendly indexed pdf file (286 pages) and 429 audio files (256kb mp3), also as a CD-ROM or a physical book.

It is intended for anybody who wants to play traditional music in the Irish style, from complete beginners to confirmed or advanced players who wish to work on their style or ornamentation. Tablature as well as sheet music is used throughout the book, so it is accessible to the complete beginner; while more advanced players will appreciate the attention to detail in style and ornamentation in the later parts of the book.