Below is a list of local open sessions. If you would like to get email about these sessions, join the Yahoo! Groups mailing list or send email to the contact for the specific session. If you have information about a session not listed here or updates on any of these, please contact me.
A weekly Irish music session is held in Tir na nOg in Raleigh each Sunday. The beginner lesson is held from 3-4pm where a tune is taught by hear. A slow jam runs from 4-5pm where tunes learned at the session are played. From 5 on anything goes. Check out their web site at http://www.nogirishsession.com for more information.
A weekly Irish music session is held in Price Music Building, Room 110, at North Carolina State University on Wednesdays, 4:00-5:30pm. All musicians are welcome, from the community and NCSU campus. Price Music Building is located next to Talley Student Center on Cates Avenue (see map at http://www.ncsu.edu/campus_map/central.htm , building #104) with public parking in the Coliseum Parking Deck (map, building #99).
The Pinecone Beginners Irish Session is no longer being held. Music that was presented at the session is still available at the links below
These new tunes are included in the Session Tune Book 2 above and are the tunes that have been taught at the session since Session Tune Book 1 was produced.
There is an advanced Irish Session that is held at the Skylight Exchange on the second Wednesday of every month starting at 7:30 PM. The Skylight Exchange is located at 405 1/2 Rosemary St., Chapel Hill, NC. The Skylight has fine sandwiches, beer, wine and soda as well as tons of used books/LP's. Spending a little helps repay the Skylight for use of the space.
Below is an example tune list from the September session (supplied by Paul Fackler):
Jerry's Beaver Hat/Father O'Flynn/Cliff of Moher/Behind the Bush in the Garden/Sean Ryan's Sheehan's/Miss Johnson's Dublin Porter Within a Mile of Dublin The Champaign Jig Goes To Columbia/Princess Nancy/Happy to Meet Sorry to Part/Tom Billy's/Connaughtman's Rambles My Darling Asleep/ The Alarm Clock Mary McMahon/Kitty's Gone A'Milking Hornpipe/Rights of Man The Stage Hornpipe/Kitty's Wedding Swan's among the Rushes/Tommy Whalen's/Tar Road to Sligo Jigs Wise Maid/Bank of Ireland/Woman of the House/Martin Wynne's/Star of Munster Hornpipe/Wind that Shakes the Barley/Piper's Lass/Chicago Reel/Silver Spear/Musical Priest Old Bush/Bunker Hill Christy Barry's 1 & 2 More Kevin Crawford tunes ??/Jack Rowe's Bird in the Bush
The Red Oak Brew Pub session is held the last Sunday of the month at 4:00pm until 7:00pm for Trad Irish music. Red Oak Brew Pub is located at 714 Francis King St., Greensboro, NC.
The Foothills Brewery session is held the first Sunday of the month from 4:00-6:00pm. Foothills Brewery is located at 638 West Forth St, Winston-Salem, NC.
The Claddagh Restaurant & Pub Session is held the third Sunday of the month at 4:30pm until ???. Claddagh Restaurant & Pub is located at 130 E. Parris Ave., High Point, NC.
