Nick Barber’s session tunebooks

Monthly recommendation #2, and a slight departure from the norm: a fantastic resource (that I've been using for years) for anyone interested in playing traditional English tunes. Particularly useful if you fancy playing at a folk session like the one we hold in Iffley. These two books by Nick Barber have nearly 200 tunes in them - many of which will be familiar to sessioners countrywide. But one little tip: if you do feel like buying them, get them from him directly at the link below, as I'm told he doesn't actually make any money from sales on other websites. http://shop.nickworks.co.uk/category.aspx?category=1&page=1&style=music&filter=Nick%20Barber%20Session%20Tunebook Or alternatively, you can go to Sidmouth Folk Week and find him in the Radway Inn, and buy them off him in person!
Current Favourite Tune: Impossible to say. Depends on the day really. Today it's probably the Gypsy Hornpipe. (I likes a good hornpipe, me.)  

By James Bell

Trad singer, songwriter and romantic fundamentalist.

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