Hey, this happens to be my birthday which is also Santa Lucia Day. I love melodies and tunes that celebrate anything to do with bringing in the light at this dark time. Perhaps if we learn a few tunes you’ll have a week to practice them so that you can play them on the winter solstice if you wish!

Participants will need to preregister via email and $10 will be the suggested fee for the class. I will teach tunes by looping phrases and then we will slow jam them in their entirety if it seems like people are getting them okay! I plan to follow up with a google drive of tunes that participants could draw on after the event.

TUNES that I am collecting for my personal favorites, some of which I will teach on December 13th:

Nos Galen (Old version of Deck the Halls)

New version of Hen Fercheten Beautiful Welsh Melody being repurposed for the solstice

Here we come a Wassailing

The Holly and the Ivy

The Holly Tree

Rowan Tree after the singing of Jean Redpath

Santa Lucia Italian folk melody

Old Man Winter by Pete Sutherland from The Great Road Album 1987

The Solstice A Canadian Tune by Jason Little

The Setting Sun as Air, Jig and Reel Irish

Da Caald Nihts O’ Winter Shetland Reel

THe Humours of Winter from O’Neills

Da Slockit Light Scottish by Tom Anderson

The Sound of the Sun by Fred Morrison

Jump at the Sun by John Kirkpatrick

The Rising Sun both as a hornpipe and a reel