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Sheet music for most of the tunes below are available in .pdf format by clicking on the tune. Where there is an adjacent '♫' symbol, clicking it allows a midi-file version of the tune to be listened to.
 
The music we use for dancing has evolved and changed of the last few years. Many of our tunes are easily recognised by most folk musicians:
Keel Row(),  Kafoozalum(),
Trumpet Hornpipe (Captain Pugwash)(),
Jenny Lind(),
Hundred Pipers(),
Cock o' the North(),
Mona's Delight,
Harvest Home(),
Navvie on the Line,
Oyster Girl(),
Uncle Bernard's Polka(),
Soldier's Joy()
Some are really good but less well known folk tunes:
Long Odds(),
Curly-Headed Ploughboy(),
Dutch Polka(),
William Taylor's Tabletop Hornpipe()
Manchester Hornpipe(),
Lass on the Strand(),
Willa Fjord(),
Waterloo Dance(),
Black Ladies(),
Radowa Polka();
We are often asked for copies of these when we dance out, and we are happy to send the music to anyone interested for an s.a.e. A contemporary tune we use is:

One for Dan()
by Jean-Pierre Rasle.

But what made our music quite distinctive was our use of pieces from completely different genres, although, currently, we have stopped using some of them:
Dill Pickle Rag,
Makin' Whoopee,
Jamaica Farewell(),
Yellow Bird();
which none the less lie happily with what our dancers are doing with their feet. We have also occasionally indulged in:
The Sailors' Hornpipe,
Isle of Capri,
Take Five;
although only one dancer can currently manage to step to the 5/4 tempo.
Other well known tunes are in our repertoire, but are currently not used:
Winster Gallop
Speed the Plough