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The open session in Tuamgraney, Co. Clare

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SAMS Session: Tue 6 Jan 2004
Joyce's Bar, Tuamgraney, Co. Clare, Ireland

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Tue 7 Dec 2004

Tue 2 Nov 2004

Tue 5 Oct 2004

Tue 7 Sep 2004

Tue 3 Aug 2004

Tue 6 Jul 2004

Tue 1 Jun 2004

Tue 4 May 2004

Tue 6 Apr 2004

Tue 2 Mar 2004

Tue 3 Feb 2004

Tue 6 Jan 2004

Tue 2 Dec 2003

Tue 4 Nov 2003

Tue 7 Oct 2003

Tue 2 Sep 2003

Tue 5 Aug 2003

Sun 3 Aug 2003

Tue 1 Jul 2003

Tue 3 Jun 2003

Tue 6 May 2003

Tue 1 Apr 2003

Tue 4 Mar 2003

Tue 4 Feb 2003

Tue 7 Jan 2003

Tue 3 Dec 2002

Tue 5 Nov 2002

The SAMS session has a big black Visitors Book. Call it an innovation or call it an obsessive compulsive disorder, but contributors are invited to write a note about each song or tune that is performed. This makes interesting reading from month to month and also provides a great record of each memorable session, which is made available for you to read on this webpage. The following list should give a fair flavour of what went on, but it does not purport to be 100% complete or accurate. If you're worried about completeness and accuracy, just come along to the next session!

Harvest Home
accordian: Tom Ryan; banjo: Steve Ford Elliott
Trad.

Cruellest Crime
guitar, vocals: Gerry Mulvenna
Patrick Fitzgerald

You'll Never Be The Sun
guitar, vocals: Tom Ryan
by Donagh Long, from the singing of Dolores Keane

Powder Rag
harmonica, guitar: Dave Rose

Natives
guitar, vocals: Gerry Mulvenna
from singing of Christy Moore

Sidh beag, sidh mór
banjo: Steve Ford Elliott

O'Carolan's Concerto
accordian: Tom Ryan

Napoleon's Nose
guitar, vocals: Gerry Mulvenna
by Gerry

Don't Look Me In The Eye
guitar, vocals: Tom Ryan
by Tom

Euston Tune
harmonica, guitar: Dave Rose

Sold Down The River Again
guitar, vocals: Gerry Mulvenna
by Pete Coe

Highway to the sky
guitar, vocals: Nigel Coleman
by Nigel

Ode To My Love
guitar, vocals: Denise Brown
by Denise

Illogical jigs
banjo: Steve Ford Elliott
by Steve

Swedish Jig
guitar: Tom Ryan
Arty McGlynn

Can't Help Falling In Love
guitar, vocals: Gerry Mulvenna
from the singing of Elvis Presley

Love Me Tender
guitar, vocals: Tom Ryan
from singing of Elvis Presley

Banish Misfortune
guitar, vocals: Dave Rose

Blackest Crow
vocals: Tembre De Carteret
Trad. from group busking in Galway called Furnace Mountain

Silver Sands
guitar, vocals: Tembre De Carteret
by Tembre

O'Dowds (kind of)
mandolin: Steve Ford Elliott
Trad.

Vicious Circle (aka In The Ghetto)
guitar, vocals: Gerry Mulvenna
Scott Davis (popularised by Elvis Presley)

In The City
guitar, vocals: Nigel Coleman
by Nigel

Untitled
guitar, vocals: Denise Brown
by Denise

L & N
guitar, vocals: Gerry Mulvenna
from singing of Michelle Shocked

Banjo Tune
banjo: Tom Ryan

The Chicken Song
guitar, vocals: Gerry Mulvenna
composed c.1985 in Belfast's Kelly's Cellars by Paddy McKillen and Gerry Mulvenna

Sucking sweets on a bus
guitar, vocals: Gerry Mulvenna
by Gerry

Everything is taken for granted
guitar, vocals: Tom Ryan
by Tom

Buckets of Rain
guitar, vocals: Dave Rose
by Bob Dylan

Donna
guitar, vocals: Tracey Dixon
by Donovan

Little Ben
guitar, vocals: Denise Brown
by Denise

Fairy Tale of New York
guitar, vocals: Nigel Coleman
Shane MacGowan

Helpless
guitar, vocals: Nigel Coleman
by Neil Young

Boys Of Bluehill
accordian: Tom Ryan; banjo: Steve Ford Elliott

Star of the County Down
guitar, vocals: Gerry Mulvenna
Trad.

Bundle Up and Go
accordian: Tom Ryan; banjo: Steve Ford Elliott

Whitegate Stomp
accordian: Tom Ryan; banjo: Steve Ford Elliott
by Tom

Weapon of Mass Seduction
accordian: Tom Ryan; guitar, vocals: Gerry Mulvenna
by Gerry

King of the fairies
whistle: Agnes Oertel

My Girl's Mad At Me
guitar, vocals: Gerry Mulvenna
Madness

The Voyage
guitar, vocals: Gerry Mulvenna
Johnny Duhan

Shall I compare you
vocals: Tracey Dixon

Tribute to John Denver
guitar, vocals: Tracey Dixon
by Tracey

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Tue 6 Dec 2005
Jakko's Bar
Scariff
Co. Clare