The Red Horse Tavern Session meets at the Red Horse Tavern, 104 N Main St, Pleasant Gap, PA 16823, 814-359-2082 (map). Pleasant Gap is near Bellefonte and State College. The session is held on the second Thursday of each month from 7:00 - 9:30pm. For more information contact Patty at 2celtichorses@gmail.com. To stay informed of this and other Irish music sessions and events in Pennsylvania, you might want to join the Penncelts group on Yahoo and Centralpaceltic, also on Yahoo.

Throughout Ireland and anywhere else Irish music is played, traditional musicians meet informally in homes and in pubs. These gatherings are called sessions. The purpose is to allow musicians to celebrate their common interests in Celtic music by playing together in a relaxed, casual setting.

A session is not a concert, and the participants are not a band. A session is a sort of musical potluck. At any given session many or most of the participants have played together before, and there are usually some first timers. During any particular tune, some or most of the players will know it and some may not. Those who do not know the tune typically listen to it or try to figure it out as they go. The emphasis is on fiddle and pipe tunes, but occasionally we sing.

For a PDF file of the list of tunes we typically play, click here.