Belfast Flying Shoes Dance Series

Belfast Flying Shoes Dance Series

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All Comers Band

The All-Comers Band plays for the Community Dance at 6:30pm. Anyone who plays an instrument (all levels of players encouraged) is welcome to join in. We've had as many as 20 musicians serenading the Community Dance! What FUN and a great way to hone your playing skills. A list of tunes sometimes played by the All-Comers Band is as follows: We try to add new tunes frequently.

Tune List for All Comers Band
( Subject to change and additions)

  • Galopede
  • The Banshee
  • St Anne's Reel
  • Julia Delaney
  • Liza Jane
  • Spootiskerry
  • Over the waterfall
  • Red Haired Boy
  • Angeline the Baker
  • Whiskey Before Breakfast
  • Sandy Boys
  • Juliann Johnson
  • Nail that Catfish to the Tree
  • Swallow Tail Jig
  • Off She Goes
  • Indian Point
  • Kitchen Girl
  • Shove that Pigs Foot a little further in the fire
  • Big Scioty
  • Bus Stop Reel
  • Speed the Plow
  • Dancing Bear
  • Horace Hanesworth
  • Home with the Girls in the Morning
  • Blair Atholl
  • Scollay's Reel
  • Cold Frosty Morning
  • Old Mother Flanagan

Various Waltzes

  • Josefin's Waltz
  • Jim and Judy's
  • My Cape Breton Home
  • Margaret's Waltz

Useful Tune Books

  • Portland Collection
  • Portland Collection, Vol. 2
  • Fiddlers Fakebook
  • Waltz Books (by Matthiesen) Vols 1, 2 & 3