Hey Chris-

I've been working on the same thing for a week. I'm trying to introduce my girlfriend to British/Irish/Canadian... Folk music. Here are some of the songs that I am including, but I'm nowhere near sure of the order.

I should also mention that I am planning this as a three tape project and that some of these songs are just ones that I like and not always the best or most defining of the artist.

Albion Country/Dance Band: Poor Old Horse
Altan: Donal Agus Morag, Tommy Peoples
Battlefield Band: Bonnie Barly-O
Peter Bellamy (from the Transports): Roll Down
Black Family: Donkey Riding
Boys of the Lough: Bretton Wedding March
De Dannan: The Arrival of the Queen of Sheeba at Galway
Fairport Convention: Matty Groves,
Holy Modal Rounders: Hey Hey Baby
House Band: Walls of Troy, Eliz Iza
Dolores Keane: Bonny Light Horseman
Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick Byker Hill, Sheep Steeler
Sarah Gray: Fidlers Green (Hard to find, Maddy Prior and Tim Hart's version is also very nice).
Morris On: I'll go Enlist for a Sailor, Cuckoos Nest
Christy Moore: Ride On, Reel in the Flickering Light
Patrick Street: Music for a found Harmonium, Holy Ground
Planxty: Cold Blow and a Rainy Night, Jolly Beggar
Maddy Prior: The Brisk Young Butcher
Silly Wizard: Roaring Donald, Jack Cuninghams Fairwell
Steeleye Span: Hills of Greenmore, All Around My Hat, Two Magicians
Andy M. Stewart: The Parish of Dunkeld
Richard Thompson: End of the Rainbow
Touchstone: Jack Hagarity or The Flowing Tide

I'm also going to use some tracks from The Bothy Band, The Watersons, Eliza Carthy, some stuff from Cape Breton...

Here are some to start. I'll probably get bored again and put some more up. Let me know what you are going with so that I can get more ideas.

Josh