Pub session

This article is about playing music in a pub. For drinking alcohol in a pub, see drinking session.

Irish music enthusiasts gather at a pub to play music and drink beer

A pub session (seisiún in Irish; seisean in Scottish Gaelic; seshoon in Manx Gaelic) is performing music in the setting of a local pub, in which the music-making is intermingled with the consumption of ale, stout, and beer and conversation.[1] Performers sing and play traditional songs and tunes[1] from the Irish, English, Scottish and Manx traditions, using instruments such as the fiddle, accordion, concertina, flute, tin whistle, uilleann pipes, tenor banjo, guitar, and bodhrán.[2] Some sessions have dancing too.[3][4]

  1. ^ a b World Music: Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Music reference series. Rough Guides. 1999. pp. 172–173. ISBN 978-1-85828-635-8. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  2. ^ Traditiones. Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, Razred za filološke in literarne vede. 2012. p. 38. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  3. ^ "About Bal Miniscule". Bal Miniscule. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  4. ^ "Pub Crawl Budapest". Thursday, July 23, 2020