Suffolk traditional tunes for St Edmund's Day celebration, Nov 2009

This list has been produced for a specific reason, for use as a community music resource in 2009, and is our first attempt at putting such a resource online, so we hope it works!

If you would like to use it for any other purpose, please contact us first.

The tunes played will be selected from this list, according to who is playing, and who knows what. Not everybody has to play all the time! We can repeat tunes or sets as necessary, as the audience will be passers-by. Katie Howson will be leading this session.

All these tunes would normally be played in C, but if you wish us to play in a different key, we can do this during the course of the session.

Please contact us if you would like to come along and play, and let us know what instrument you play (and what keys you can play in, if that’s relevant). It would also be useful if you could let us know which of these tunes you can play. If you don’t know any of these tunes, you’re probably not ready to join in, but if you know a couple, it’s just you we had in mind when arranging this! If you know lots of them, that’s fantastic, do come and join us!

The aim is to play these tunes in the following medleys. Click on the item to go to a page with a soundclip and score.

Please note that the soundclip will play automatically as soon as you open the new webpage, but you can then stop and replay at will.

The soundclip is designed for learning purposes only, and may not be reproduced or broadcast. Each tune is played twice through in the key of C.

Dennington Polka

Oh Joe the Boat is Going Over

Heel and Toe Polka

Seamo's Polka

Jump on the Wagon

Dennington Bell

Owl's Green Hornpipe

Cecil Pearl’s Hornpipe

Woodland Flowers 

Oscar’s Jig

Waltz Veleta

Further information about these tunes and the style of music, plus the history behind them, is to be found in our book Before the Night Was Out, available from our online shop.