Essential tunes in your genre

[Randy Stein]

There is great diversity of musical traditions on this list serve. If you were advising a new comer to your genre of music, what 2 or 3 tunes would you say is must for them to know for sessions or dances? 

[RAc]

Hi Randy, we had this discussion before:

 

https://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php?/topic/20357-top-ten-session-tunes/

 

I still tend to believe that sessions tunes go in and out of style fairly quickly. There are tunes that pop up infrequently over and over again over the years (eg Chinese Breakdown or Levy Jackson Rag), but when it comes to "bread and butter tunes" such as 32 bar jigs or reels, I couldn't name any that make it beyond local favorite status (in our "tribe," The Great North Run is in that group)... I'd be curious how others look at this though.