How it started

Once upon a time, there was a Monday night contra dance in the center of Amherst.  Its history is another story, but one of its salient features was a sit-in band–cheerful, friendly, engaging, fun, and a fine way for musicians to play out.  Then it was decreed by the new organizers that there would be no more sitting in, so what were the musicians to do?  Sit home and sulk?  Of course not.  So began the Monday night session, not in Amherst, but a few miles north in the village of Montague Center.

See David’s comment under the DAK tab for a more detailed version and a few conversational gambits.

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18 March 2024

Sweetbriar (A)
Lay Dee at Dee (D)
Calum's Road (D)
The Wren (em)
Crested Hen (key?)
Swinging on a Gate (G)
Through the Gates (D)
Inisheer (G)
High Part of the Road (G)
Golden Ticket (G)
Bridal March, name ?
Dick Gossip (D)
Pressley Manor (D)
Winchell's Falls (A)
Bert Ferguson (A)
Old Tom of Oxford (D)
Meeting of the Waters (A)
Chickadee Polka (G)
Planxty Fanny Power (G)
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4 March 2024

Durang's (D)
Sarah Armstrong (D)
Honeylocust (D)
Headlight Reel (D)
Needlecase (D)
Brambley Brae (D)
Springfield (D)
Le Petit Train du Bois (D)
La Fée des Dents (G)
Roscoe (G)
Winnipeg Reel (G)
Pellerinage (G)
Ora Lee (G)
Utpick Waltz (G)
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19 February 2024

Barrowburn (D)
Old Tom of Oxford (D)
Rannie MacLellan (D)
Burchard's (D)
Rose by the Door (D)
Golden Ticket (G)
Nancy Ann (C)
John Howatt's (D)
Tom Kruskal's (A)
Todd Hill (A)
Galen's Arrival (G)
Goff Hall (A)
Corie (D)
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5 February 2024

Nancy Ann (C)
Sweetbriar (A)
Honeylocust (D)
Valse de Pastoriaux (G)
Le Petit March (D)
Torn Jacket (D)
Burchard's HP (D)
Winnebago Reel (D)
Boys of Wexford (G)
Return to Fingal (em)
Bill O'Malley's Barn Dance (G)
Allie Crocker (D)
Waltz Poêles (A)
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30 January 2024

Reel de Joie
Da Tushkar (A)
Girl with the Blue Dress On (G)
Pellerinage (G)
Garfield's March (G)
Le Petit Train du Bois (D)
Presley Manor (D)
Through the Gates (D)
Reunion Jig (A)
L'air Mignon
Winnebago Reel (D)
White Cockerel (A)
Old Horse & Buggy-O (A)
Leaning Linden (G)
John Howatt's (D)
Volunteer (G)
Delicious (D)
Le Petit Marche (D)
Summer Waltz (D)
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15 January 2024

Racine le Beau
Maison de Glace (D)
Winnebago
David's French Fiddle (D)
Pellerinage
Viroqua
Swallowtail
Rose in the Heather
Burchard's
Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine (D) / Multnomah March (A)
Devaney's Goat
Scotch Hornpipe (D)
Rambling Pitchfork
Da Tushkar
Earl's Chair
White Cockerel (A)
Return from Fingal
Pressley Manor (D)
Le Petit Marche (Yann Falquet)
Berceuse pour Hannah
Shepherd's Wife
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1 January 2024

Barrowburn
Merry Blacksmith
Viroqua
Sarah's Jig
Tippin' Back the Corn
Scollay's
Da Tushkar
Todd Hill
Fair Jenny's
Walk Old Shoe
Sweetbriar
Reunion Jig
Battle of Waterloo
Devaney's Goat
Fanny Power
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18 December 2023

Winchell's Falls (A)
Pellerinage (G)
Owl & Hedgehog (D)
Waterbound (A)
Sweetbriar (A)
Raivlin Reel (D)
March of St. Timothy (G)
Little Burnt Potato (D?)
One-Horned Sheep (G)
June Apple (A modal)
Multnomah March (A)
My Cape Breton Home (G)
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4 December 2023

Lambingfold (G)
Spring Song (A)
Barrowburn (D)
Winchell's Falls (A)
Return from Fingal (em)
Le Petit Marche (D)
Frank's (A)
Richard's Jig (A)
Star Above the Garter (G)
St. Anne's (D)
Delicious (D)
Golden Ticket (G)
Hollow Poplar (G)
Stool of Repentance (A)
Hommage à Edmond Parizeau (A)
Viroqua (bm)
Waterbound (A)
Midnight on the Water (D)
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20 November 2023

Dick Gossip (D)
White Cockerel (A)
Needlecase (D)
Fiddle Hill Jig (G/D)
Seamus Cooley's (em)
Scotch Hornpipe (D)
Delicious (D)
Waiting for the Sap to Rise (G)
Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine (D)
Moon & 7 Stars (D)
Sail Away Ladies (G)
Far From Home (G)
Road to Glountane (A)
Repeal the Poll Tax (A)
Through the Gates (D)
Montague Processional (D)
Hewlett (D)
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