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Wednesday Slow Session
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Day/Time Wed, 8.20-9.20pm
Latest update 2 Sep '26 10pm

For almost three decades I have run slow sessions in various locations. The Wednesday Slow Session was my first session, and it existed in five or six bars in Edinburgh over the years. During lockdown I created Gatherer's Inn, an imaginary bar in which I conducted an online session and, four years later, we're still there.

Each week we particularly concentrate on a specific tune, and then play through some of our regular slow session tunes, also available below. I realised some of the participants

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preferred to know what we were doing in advance, so they can prepare by practising or listening, so that has been a feature of the session.

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Session Schedule
     TermA (Sep - Dec 2026)
9/9 A1 Main tune: Angus Polka No.1
Plus: Bonnie at MornFlatwater FranTrip tp Pakistan
Shepherd's Wife setA A Cameron setParcel of RoguesBallydesmond Polkas
16/9 A2 Main tune: Angus Polka No.2
Plus: Bonnie at MornFlatwater FranTrip tp Pakistan
Shepherd's Wife setA A Cameron setThe Scartaglen PolkaBallydesmond Polkas
23/9 A3 Main tune: Tribute to Till Perry
Plus: /small>
30/9 A4 Main tune: Over the Border
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7/10 A5 Main tune: Glasgow Gaelic Club
Plus:
14/10 -- Holiday
21/10 A6 Main tune: The Shetland Fiddler
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28/10 A7 Main tune: Hey Ho My Bonnie Lass
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4/11 A8 Main tune: Midnight On the Water
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11/11 A9 Main tune: The Badger
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18/11 A10 Main tune: The Weasel
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25/11 A11 Main tune:
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2/12 A12 Main tune:
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9/12 A13 Main tune:
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16/12 -- Session not on
23/12 -- Session not on

SESSION SETS
e01. Bonnie at Morn
e02. Flatwater Fran
e03. Trip to Pakistan set
e04. North Turned South set
e05. Leaving Friday Harbour
e06. The Brolum
e07. Calum's Road set
e08. Baron's Heir set
e09. Stroopie Brae set
e10. Waltz for Kylin
e11. Fingal's Cave set
e12. McKechnie's Farewell
e13. Bethany's Waltz
e14. Miss Rowan Davies
e15. The Sleeping Tune
e16. Margaret's Waltz set
e17. Doddie's Dream
e18. Maggie West's/Farquhar's
e19. Roses of No Man's Land
e20. Sarah Nelson set
01. Peat Fire Flame set
02. Boys of Blue Hill set
03. Memories of Fr Angus
05. Snug in a Blanket set
07. Hector the Hero
08. Spootiskerry set
09. Barren Rocks set
10. Banks of the Allan set
12. Glenside Polkas
15. Barnyards o' Delgaty
16. Oyster Wives set
17. Battle of the Somme set
18. Ronas Voe set
21. Salmon Tails set
22. Corriechoillie's set
24. Off to California set
25. Denis Murphy's set
26. Music o' Spey
29. Flowers of Edinburgh set
40. The Dark Island
41. Sweet Maid of Glendaruel
42. King of the Fairies
45. Ballydesmond Polkas
49. Farewell to the Creeks
52. Wee Tod set
53. Mrs Forbes's Farewell set
71. Haughton House
73. Battle of Waterloo
75. Wi a Hundred Pipers set
c02. Flett from Flotta
c13. Eleanor of Usan
i02. East at Glendart
i05. Eibhlin
i06. The Rights of Man
i07. Road to Lisdoonvarna set
i10. Shoe the Donkey set
i11. Her Mantle So Green
i17. Sheebeg and Sheemore
g10. Ballachulish Glen
g36. Kelvingrove set
g37. John MacAlpine set
-- Donald Blue set set
-- The Barrowburn Reel
-- Davie Davie Knick Knack
-- The Galway Hornpipe
-- Da Slockit Light
-- Lochanside
-- Trumpet Hornpipe

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