Month: February 2026

ECDC list

Possibly an extra one or two to be added for safety, but here is the list so far:

Le Poules Huppes https://newealingsessions.com/2021/04/04/the-crested-hens-les-poules-huppees/ No arrangement, maybe some dynamics tbc

Jenny Pluck Pears https://newealingsessions.com/2026/02/08/jenny-pluck-pears/ No arrangement, maybe some dynamics tbc

Mairi’s Wedding/Peat Fire Flame https://newealingsessions.com/2022/11/02/mairis-wedding/ and https://newealingsessions.com/2022/10/30/peat-fire-flame/ with arrangement as follows:

mairis-and-peat-fire-arrangementDownload

Reel de Gaspe

Reel de Gaspe link

Red House Reel

Red House Reel link

Hunt the Squirrel

Hunt the Squirrel link

Dashing White Sergeant – updated tune with reduced part and updated chords

DWS – reducedDownload

Jamaica/Remaica – two of each, and repeat ad nauseum

jamaicaDownload
remaicaDownload

Mount Hills

MOUNT HILLSDownload

Duke of Kent’s Waltz

Duke of Kent’s WaltzDownload

Out on the Ocean

Out on the OceanDownload

The Red House Reel

A classic dance tune The Red House Reel – I know this from a Jimmy Shand album (as per the video below), but it’s earliest collection appears to be in the 9th edition of the Playford Collection 1695. It was used in a range of theatrical productions in the 1700s, with more info available here on the invaluable tunearch.org website. It has various titles in English, Scots and Welsh and there are both major and minor versions, showing it to be a very popular tune that was absorbed into various different traditions.

The tune is often played in G minor, with F#s rather than F naturals, but E minor is also common, either with D#s or D naturals.

We are using the tune to accompany a 40-bar dance and so are playing AABBC – this is also a useful tune for the Eightsome Reel, the beginning and end sections of which are 40 bars long. The tune may be also be played as a 48 bar tune, as AABBCC.

The Red House ReelDownload