Mally's Session Selection Book, ENGLISH FOLK MUSIC, at Hobgoblin Music

Mally's Session Selection - Dave Mallinson\nIt's great to be at a folk festival spending the day playing traditional tunes with fellow musicians. There's nothing better than joining in with a host of enthusiasts blasting out reels, jigs, hornpipes and polkas on accordions, banjos, concertinas, fiddles, flutes, mandolins, melodeons, pipes, tin whistles, bouzoukis, guitars and bodhr\u00E1ns, maybe even a harp or piano, on occasions. There can be a whole mix of players: youngsters and old hands, experts and novices, friends and strangers, professionals and amateurs, old-hands and newbies. Some players favour complicated tunes at speed, whilst others can only manage simple tunes slowly. For many players, sessioning at festivals means a change from the usual tunes they play at their local sessions, an annoyance for some, a breath of fresh air for others. For regular festival goers, it means playing with music buddies only seen once a year. For many it will be their first visit and don\u20e