Early spring can be a great opportunity to get out onto the streets and play some handbell music! Here’s a list of 8-bell music for St. Patrick’s Day. It includes many popular pieces that we’ve played at this time of year, including during street performances, and in concerts. Most of these titles are available to purchase and download from Choraegus. If you’re looking for music for your handbell choir or small ensemble to play, please visit our music site to find out what’s available.

When St. Patrick’s Day arrives, celebrate all things Irish with our selection of traditional jigs, reels and hornpipes. Alternatively, add some Irish hymns to your worship service!

Banish Misfortune
Be Thou My Vision (SLANE) (with piano accompaniment)
Barney Brannigan
The Blarney Pilgrim
The Boys of Bluehill
Bunessan (Morning Has Broken)

The Butterfly
Calliope HouseChloe’s Passion
The Foxhunter’s Jig
“Grizzly’s Peak” (The Bear Went Over the Mountain)
Hardiman the Fiddler
The Humours of Whiskey

Jim Ward’s Jig
The Kesh
King of the FairiesLondonderry Air/Danny Boy
Morrison’s Jig
Off to California
The Swaggering Jig

Tripping Up the Stairs
When Irish Eyes are Smiling
The Whinny Hills of Leitrim
Wrong Foot Forward

Demonstration videos of these 8-bell arrangements

We have a playlist of music for St. Patrick’s Day on our YouTube channel. Alternatively, go to the Choraegus music site to search for available titles, and you’ll find demonstration videos there too. If you don’t find what you’re looking for, please contact us and we’ll be happy to help.