Ceol Traidisiúnta

Newtown Inn, Maynooth

Come and join us for a trad session any Thursday night around 9.30 p.m. Bring your instrument!

A Brief History

Take Notes, now!

Aidan Byrne`s Pub in the Square, Kilcock, hosted a Thursday night traditional music session for 10 years.

Aidan and Rita then retired and the session moved to Brady's Pub in Maynooth.

Declan and Tony renovated the entire place and so we moved to the Straffan Court.

They turned that into a nursing home so we escaped to our current venue: the Newtown Inn in Maynooth.

Here are some of the sets we commonly play, depending on who is in!

This is the SCIENCE bit…

They are in MIDI format. You may click on the individual tune to play it at normal speed or click on the SET button. This will bring you to a separate page where the tunes in that set are given in sheet-music format and also in .abc format. I have provided three playing speeds for each to suit the Banjo Learner (ME!).

A far greater selection of Irish Traditional Tunes can be found at Henrik Norbeck`s abc site and if you wish to play them or convert them to MIDI you may do so using his ABCMUS program.

I use Jim Vint`s ABC2WIN and ABCNavigator to convert the .abc files to sheet music.