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Sporting Paddy

Sporting Paddy are proud to have been part of Melbourne and Victoria`s Irish music scene since 2000.Sporting Paddy is a lively Celtic trio playing Irish, Scottish and contemporary songs and tunes, from `Black Velvet Band` and Whiskey in the Jar` to `Brown Eyed Girl` and `To Her Door`.

  • Entertainment:
    Duos and Trios, Irish and Celtic Music, World Music
  • City:
    Brisbane

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IRISH

  • Belfast Mill
  • Sweet Sixteen
  • The Leaving of Liverpool
  • Baidin Fhealamidh
  • The Wild Rover
  • The Beggarman
  • As I Roved Out
  • The Nightingale
  • Rare Ould Times
  • Raglan Road
  • Carrickfergus
  • Fields of Athenry
  • Maggie
  • Rising of the Moon
  • Follow Me Up To Carlow
  • The Water Is Wide
  • Four Green Fields
  • Foggy Dew
  • Surrounded By Water
  • Isn’t It Grand Boys
  • Fiddler’s Green
  • Jug Of Punch
  • Boys Of Wexford
  • Kelly the Boy From Killane
  • Only Our Rivers Run Free
  • Gentle Annie
  • Bunch of Thyme
  • Ballad of St Anne’s Reel
  • Leaving of Nancy
  • Reilly’s Daughter
  • Banks of the Lee
  • Rare Ould Mountain Dew
  • The Blacksmith
  • My Singing Bird
  • Meeting of the Waters
  • Travelling People
  • Irish Rover
  • Sean South
  • A Nation Once Again
  • Mountains of Mourne
  • Dick Darby
  • She Moved Through the fair
  • Spanish lady
  • Lakes of Pontchartrain
  • Stealaway (F)
  • Down By The Glenside
  • Finnegan’s Wake (C)
  • Curragh of Kildare (G)
  • Courtin’ In the Kitchen (G)
  • Carnloch Bay
  • Black Velvet Band
  • Waxie’s Dargle
  • Weilia Walia
  • Star of the County Down
  • Cliffs of Dooneen
  • Come By The Hills
  • Boys From Killybegs
  • Castle of Dromore
  • I’ll Tell Me Ma
  • Green Glens of Antrim
  • Molly Malone
  • Hills of Connemara
  • Galway Shawl
  • Homes of Donegal (E)
  • Arthur McBride (G)
  • Rocky Road to Dublin (Dm)
  • Down By The Glenside (Am Capo 2)
  • Leaves in the Wind (Dm capo 4)
  • Muirsheen Durkin (D)
  • Parting Glass
  • Rose of Tralee
  • Back Home in Derry
  • Seven Drunken Nights
  • Isn’t It Grand Boys
  • Nancy Whisky
  • Liverpool Lou
  • Jug of Punch
  • Highland Paddy
  • Danny Boy
  • Galway Bay
  • Boys from the County Armagh
  • Slievnamone
  • Lovely Leitrim
  • Mary From Dungloe
  • Gypsy Rover
  • Shoals of Herring
  • Leaves In The Wind
  • Singing Bird
  • McAlpine’s Fusiliers
  • Old Woman From Wexford
  • Whiskey in the Jar
  • Brennan on The Moor
  • When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
  • Galway Bay
  • Among The Wicklow Hills

IRISH CONTEMPORARY

  • What Can I Do? (Corrs)
  • Easter Snow
  • Song for Ireland
  • When You say Nothing At All
  • Red Rose Café
  • Ride On
  • Clare to HereCity of Chicago
  • At Your Side (Corrs)
  • Runaway (Corrs)
  • You Couldn’t Have Come at a Better
  • Time Song Of Indifference
  • Have I Told You lately
  • Bright Side of the Road
  • Nancy Spain
  • My Heart’s Tonight In Ireland
  • The Voyage
  • Dirty Old Town
  • The Reel in the Flickering Light
  • Have I Told You Lately
  • Fisherman’s Blues
  • And It Stoned Me

 

  • Lift the Wings
  • Crazy Love
  • Fairy Tale of New York
  • Flesh and Blood
  • By The Liffey (D)
  • The Man Is Alive
  • The Town I Loved So Well
  • Bright Blue Rose
    North and South of the River
  • Streets of New York
  • Katie
  • When will We Be Married
  • Molly
  • No Frontiers
  • Ordinary Man
  • St Brendan’s Voyage
  • Missing You
  • So Young (G Capo 5)
  • All I Want Is You
  • With or Without You
  • I Still haven’t Found What
  • I’m Looking For
  • Irish heartbeat (G)
  • One (Em’ A)
  • Brown Eyed Girl

SCOTTISH

  • Marie’s Wedding

 

 

  • Will Ye Go Lassie Go
  • Busk Busk Bonnie lassie
  • Skye Boat Song
  • Annie Laurie
  • Flower of Scotland
  • Both Sides the Tweed
  • Tiree Boat Song
  • Black is the Colour
  • Killiecrankie
  • Song of the Clyde
  • Coulter’s Candy
  • Peggy Gordon
  • Ye Banks and Braes
  • Sally Free and Easy
  • Loch Lomond
  • Scotland the Brave
  • Dundee Weaver
  • Nancy Whisky
  • Road To Dundee
  • Lowlands of Holland
  • Raggle Taggle Gypsy
SCOTTISH CONTEMPORARY
  • Broken Wings
  • Football Crazy
  • Maids When You’re Young
  • Caledonia
  • Jeely Piece Song

 

  • Ready for the Storm
  • 500 Miles
  • I’m On My Way
  • Mull of Kintyre
  • Sunshine on Leith (D capo 2)
  • I Was Born In Glasgow
  • I Feel So Near
  • Heart of the Highland
  • The Scythe Song
  • This Love Will Carry

AUSTRALIAN

  • Bound For South Australia
  • Wild Colonial Boy
  • Green Fields of France (A)
  • All For Me Grog (G)
  • And the Band Played
  • waltzing Matilda
  • Leaving The Land
  • Click Go The Shears
  • With My Swag All On My
  • Shoulder
  • Botany Bay
  • Shelter
  • Poor Ned

COVERS

  • Throw Your Arms Around Me
  • Careless

 

 

 

  • From Little Things Big Things Grow
  • Closer to Find
  • To Her Door
  • Better Be Home Soon
  • Fields of Gold
  • Jessie’s Girl
  • It’s All Over Now
  • I Saw Her Standing There
  • I Fall at Your Feet
  • Blister In The Sun
  • Desire
  • Bad Moon Rising
  • Me And Bobby Magee
  • I’m A Believer
  • Sweet Caroline
  • What’s My Scene
  • Delilah
  • Dumb Things
  • The Gambler
  • Sailing
  • Deperado
  • Lying Eyes
  • American Pie
  • Bye Bye Love
  • Celia
  • Wonderwall
  • Don’t Think Twice
  • La Bamba
  • Angel of Harlem
  • Beatles Medley

 

Biography

Sporting Paddy are proud to have been part of Melbourne and Victoria`s Irish music scene since 2000.

Sporting Paddy is a lively Celtic trio playing Irish, Scottish and contemporary songs and tunes, from `Black Velvet Band` and Whiskey in the Jar` to `Brown Eyed Girl` and `To Her Door`.

Lots of experience at weddings and functions. Great easy listening or dancing music! Instruments featured include; fiddle, guitar, uilleann pipes, mandolin, and djembe.

They also do solo and duo performances and for major functions they can also supply up to a five piece band.

Their repertoire is mainly traditional and contemporary Irish and Scottish music with some contemporary Australian songs thrown in. They can pitch the music to suit the audience and situation, from mellow background music to loud and fast dance music.