To get an idea of what some common tunes are, here are the tune lists for some of the "open stage" dance bands (bands where anyone including students can spontaneously show up and play):

2nd Saturday of each month

North Yarmouth Family Dance Tunes

JIGS:

KESH JIG
MORRISON'S JIG
SWALLOWTAIL JIG

REELS:

BUS STOP
CARIBOU REEL
CLUCK OLD HEN
COLD FROSTY MORNING
GASPE REEL
GRUMBLING AND GROWLING
JOHNNY COPE
JUNE APPLE
LA BASTRANGUE
LIBERTY
LIZA JANE
NAIL THAT CATFISH...
OFF SHE GOES
OLD JOE CLARK
OVER THE WATERFALL
RED HAIRED BOY
SANDY BOYS
SCOLLAYS REEL
SOLDIER'S JOY
SPOOTISKERRY

SCHOTTISCHE:

OFF TO CALIFORNIA

POLKA:

JOHN RYAN'S

WALTZES:

HEWLETT
MIDNIGHT ON THE WATER

3rd Friday of each month

Brunswick Family Dance Tunes

(this family dance band is called Danceboat)

Reels:
Ballydesmond Polka
John Ryan's Polka
Gaspe Reel
Cold Frosty Morning
Nail That Catfish to the Tree
Liza Jane
Over the Waterfall
Galopede
Road to Boston
Johnny Cope
Scollay's Reel
Pays de Haut
Jamie Allen
Mairi's Wedding
Rocks of Brae in E minor
Meeting of the Waters
Gay Gordons
Rose Tree
O'Donnell Abhu
March of Saint Timothy


Jigs:

Indian Point
Hundred Pipers
La Maison De Glace
Off She Goes

Waltzes:
Margaret's Waltz
Amelia
Planxty Fanny Poer
Far Away

Annual dance in Bowdoinham, event is called the Mighty Cloud of Fiddlers (organized by Greg Boardman)

Reels:
Mason's Apron
Speed the Plough
Reconciliation
Big John MacNeil
Devil's Dream
Joys of Quebec
Julia Delaney
Cooley's
Ships a' Sailing
Hughie Shortie's
Temperance Reel
Flowers of Edinburgh
Fisher's
Shingling the Roof
St. Anne's
Ontario Swing

Jigs:
Tuckerman's
Up the River
Leapin Lulu
Athol Highlanders
Lark in the Morning

Heywood Schottiche

Waltzes:
Rosin the Beau
Malvina

1st Friday of each month

Belfast Family Dance Tunes

Reels:

Set 1
Spootiskerry (G) or Cold Frosty Morning (Am)
Over the Waterfall (D)
Red Haired Boy (A)

Set 2
Angeline the Baker (D)
Whiskey Before Breakfast (D)
Julia Delaney (Dm)

Set 3
Sandy Boys (A)
Juliana Johnson (D)
Nail the Catfish to the Tree (G)

Set 4
St. Anne¹s Reel (D)
Kitchen Girl (D)
Liza Jane (A)

Jig Set:
Swallow Tail (Em)
Off She Goes(D)
Indian Point (Em) or
Haste To the Wedding (D)

Other Tunes:
Galopede
Star of Munster
Gaspe¹ Reel
Reel De Montreal

Waltz:
Josefin¹s
Jim and Judy¹s
Margaret¹s Waltz
The Waltz of the Little Girls
Hewlett

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