List of Dances
Click on any of the dances below to be directed directly to the demonstrated dance.
The Antrim Reel
The 4H 2Hand
The Harvest Time Jig
The Siege of Ennis
The Haymaker’s Jig
The Duke Reel
The Galway Reel (6 Hand)
The Galway Reel (3 hand)
The Glencar Reel
Walls of Limerick
It dosen’t look that hard at all and what a great song to do it too…..Sligo Rags: Courtin In the Kitchen…..Can’t wait for my back to get better so I can learn it.
Thanks for the instructional video….:)
Thanks! Tell your friends! Hopefully a lot more will be added in the very near future.
why do the music of Galway Reel (3 hand) and Galway Reel (6hand) sound different?
Different dances, different songs. It helps to show the variety of being able to dance to different tunes, so that dances don’t get pigeon-holed into repetitiveness. These two songs came from a generic ceili CD from one of the dance teachers, but I think they’re done by Altan.
The 3-Hand is Altan and three mighty Donegal reels – Tommy People’s, the Windmill, and Fintan McManus’s. the six hand is not altan – actually sounds slightly more sligo in style.
Love having this visual reference to refer back to!
Can you tell me what music you use for the Haymaker’s Jig please? Or is it just called ‘Haymaker’s Jig’. I’m been pulled in last minute to learn some dances for tonight and am desperate so please reply asap!! Thanks!
The song was on a CD that one of the dance teachers lent out. It didn’t have any titles on it, but I think that it’s just standard ceili music. There’s an app for the smart phone that can pick up on the session tunes… I think it’s called TunePal. I’ll try to get it figured out.