Comhaltas Seisiún

Please note this months Seisiún  is at the House of Ireland on Friday November 28th from 7:00-9:00pm. (Address: 665 Pan American Pl, San Diego, CA 92101 Balboa Park.)

Please join us for our monthly Comhaltas Seisiún. This is an opportunity to listen to traditional Irish music in a warm, family friendly atmosphere. You don’t have to be a musician to enjoy this slice of Ireland in San Diego! 

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Here is the setlist for the next seisiún, selected from tunes from our Sunday Tune Learning Session."

Current Seisiún

November 28th 2025

  1. Banish Misfortune/Blarney Pilgrim
  2. Pigeon on the Gate/Dunmore Lasses
  3. Lilting Banshee/Connachtman’s Rambles
  4. Fig for a Kiss/Redican’s Mother
  5. Lark in the Morning
  6. Jimmy Ward’s/Kesh
  7. Jacky Tar/The King of the Fairies
  8. Merry Blacksmith/Cooley’s/Mountain Road

Seisiún Archive

october 30th 2025

  1. A Bruxa
  2. Silver Spear/Spootiskerry/The Banshee
  3. Jump at the Sun/The Cat’s Meow
  4. Kilnamona Barndance/Nia’s
  5. The Maid Behind the Bar/Lady on the Island
  6. Jacky Tar/The King of the Fairies
  7. Redican’s Mother/The Butterfly
  8. Merry Blacksmith/Cooley’s/Mountain Road

september 25th 2025

  1. The Rose in the Heather/Tobin’s Favorite
  2. Swinging on a Gate/Spootiskerry/The Banshee
  3. Saddle the Pony/Morrison’s
  4. Sally Gardens/The Dunmore Lasses
  5. King of the Fairies/Harvest Home
  6. The Butterfly/Redican’s Mother
  7. The Fairy Hornpipe/Rights of Man
  8. Merry Blacksmith/Cooley’s/Mountain Road
  9. Planxty Hewlett/Sí Bheag Sí Mhor
  10. Babes in the Woods/The Britches Full of Stitches/John Ryan’s

august 28th 2025

  1. Jimmy Ward’s/The Cat’s Meow
  2. Saddle the Pony/Morrison’s
  3. Swinging on a Gate/Spootiskerry/The Banshee
  4. The Lilting Banshee/Out on the Ocean
  5. Willie Coleman’s/Geese in the Bog
  6. Connachtman’s Rambles/My Darling Asleep/The Kesh
  7. Jacky Tar/Off to California
  8. Merry Blacksmith/Cooley’s/Mountain Road
  9. Gentle Maiden/Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow
  10. The Britches Full of Stitches/Ballyvourney Polka/John Ryan’s

July 24th 2025

1. The Butterfly/Redican’s Mother
2. Geese in the Bog/Connachtman’s Rambles/Out on the Ocean
3. Swinging on a Gate/Spootiskerry/The Banshee
4. Far From Home/The Wind that Shakes the Barley
5. The Killavil/The Lilting Banshee/The Kesh
6. Teir Abhaile/O’Keeffe’s/Dingle Regatta
7. Jacky Tar/Off to California
8. Merry Blacksmith/Cooley’s/Mountain Road
9. Gentle Maiden/Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow
10. The Britches Full of Stitches/Ballyvourney Polka/John Ryan’s

June 26th 2025

1. Banish Misfortune/Blarney Pilgrim
2. Dever the Dancer/The Butterfly
3. Swinging on a Gate/Spootiskerry/The Banshee
4. The Boys of Bluehill/Harvest Home
5. Tripping up the Stairs/Jimmy Ward’s/The Cat’s Meow
6. Geese in the Bog/Connachtman’s Rambles
7. Jacky Tar/King of the Fairies
8. Merry Blacksmith/Cooley’s/Mountain Road
9. Planxty Hewlett/Si Bheag Si Mhor
10. The Britches Full of Stitches/Babes in the Woods/John Ryan’s

May 29th 2025

1. Lilting Banshee/My Darling Asleep/Out on the Ocean
2. Merrily Kissed the Quaker’s Wife/The Road to Lisdoonvarna
3. Silver Spear/Merry Blacksmith/Cooley’s/Mountain Road
4. The Rose in the Heather/Morrison’s
5. Loch Gamhna/Off She Goes
6. Snowy Path/A Fig for a Kiss
7. Kilnamona/Lucy Farr’s
8. Father Kelly/Drowsy Maggie
9. Planxty Fanny Power
10. The Rakes of Mallow/The Britches Full of Stitches/John Ryan’s

April 24th 2025

1. Far From Home/Spootiskerry/The Banshee
2. Merrily Kissed the Quaker’s Wife/The Road to Lisdoonvarna
3. Silver Spear/Swinging on a Gate
4. Kitty’s Rambles/The Cat’s Meow
5. Coleman’s Cross/Saddle the Pony
6. The Arra Mountains/The Rocky Road to Dublin
7. Out on the Ocean/ The Killavil
8. The Sally Gardens/The Dunmore Lasses
9. Sally Gally
10. The Rakes of Mallow/The Britches Full of Stitches/John Ryan’s

March 27th 2025

1. Blarney Pilgrim/Banish Misfortune
2. Silver Spear/The Wind that Shakes the Barley
3. Lucy Farr’s/Nia’s Barndance
4. The Lilting Banshee/The Lark in the Morning
5. The Abbey/Pigeon on a Gate/Farewell to Whiskey
6. Swallowtail/Tripping up the Stairs/The Kesh
7. Toomgraney’s Castle/Beeswing
8. Teir Abhaile/Dingle Regatta
9. The Southwind
10. Kerry Polka/Babes in the Woods/John Ryan’s

February 27th 2025

  1. Off to California/Boys of Bluehill
  2. Merry Blacksmith/Cooley’s/Mountain Road
  3. Spootiskerry/The Banshee
  4. Geese in the Bog/Connaughtman’s Rambles
  5. Father Kelly/Drowsy Maggie
  6. Redican’s Mother/The Butterfly
  7. Snowy Path/Fig for a Kiss
  8. Jacky Tar/King of the Fairies
  9. Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow
  10. Ballydesmond 2/Ballydesmond 1/John Ryan’s