Witching Hour at the Sleepy Fox Inn 🕯️🦉 Dark Celtic Music for Halloween Night | 2 Hours

The clock strikes midnight. 🕯️🦊🌕 The guests have gone, the fog creeps up to the windows and two ravens are watching from the sill. Only the innkeeper is still awake – reading an old book by candlelight while the kettle bubbles and the black cat keeps watch. Two hours of dark, enchanting Celtic music for Halloween night: mysterious, a little spooky, but still cozy. 🕯️ What you'll hear It begins slow and shadowy, music-box celesta and low strings. Around the witching hour the old dance tunes come alive in minor keys – then everything fades back into the quiet of the night. With the soft crackle of a real fireplace. 📜 Tracklist 0:00 The Piper's Son 2:00 Scotch Mary 3:51 The Satin Slipper 6:02 Bonaparte Crossing The Rhine 7:39 Ballinasloe Fair 9:43 The Reel Of Bogie 11:34 Paddy Ryan's Dream 13:29 The Merry Sisters 16:10 With Biddy By My Side 18:13 Dan Rogers' Jig 20:59 Touch Me If You Dare 23:09 Lovely Molly 24:56 Jackson's Freize Coat 27:10 John Carey's Daughter 30:38 The Southern Breeze 32:10 Wandering Willy 33:46 The Sod of Turf 36:43 The Southern Shore 37:52 The Bold Deserter 39:57 Mary O'Neill's Fancy 41:13 Kilkenny Tune 43:40 Threshing the Barley 46:22 The Humors of Cork 48:05 The Flowing Bowl 49:21 Mary O'Sullivan 51:19 Murray's Hornpipe 52:32 Miss Monroe's Jig 54:14 Nellie O'Donovan 56:20 My Honey in the House #1 57:34 Haste to the Wedding 59:20 The Boy of My Heart 1:00:48 The Cuckoo's Nest 1:02:40 Glengariff Bay 1:03:50 The Pleasures of Hope 1:05:54 The Boys Of Wexford 1:07:13 The Merry Gardener 1:09:34 It's a Pity I Can't See My Love 1:11:55 Spellan the Fiddler 1:14:32 John O'Neill's Reel 1:15:53 The Dawning of the Day 1:17:51 The Bloom of Youth 1:19:06 The Jolly Young Waterman 1:20:02 Pick Your Partner 1:22:12 The Post Office 1:23:27 Beside the White Rocks 1:24:21 Mickey By The Fireside 1:26:24 Yellow Legs 1:28:48 Lawson's Favorite 1:31:20 Humors of Ballymanus 1:34:37 Off She Goes! 1:37:49 The Queen Of May 1:39:39 Cooney's Hornpipe 1:41:56 The Women's Rock 1:44:03 The Twin Brothers 1:46:28 The Girl With the Laughing Eyes 1:48:29 The Green Mountain 1:50:53 Peggy on the Settle 1:52:58 The Humors of Dingle 1:54:56 The Kneebuckle 1:57:40 Are You Willing 2:00:04 The Mountainy Boy 🎶 About the music All melodies are traditional Irish tunes, many over 200 years old, from Francis O'Neill's "Music of Ireland" (1903). For this night we reimagined most of them in minor keys and arranged them anew, played with sampled orchestral instruments from the VSCO 2 Community Edition library. The artwork was created with the help of AI image tools. Credits: Traditional melodies from O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1903), newly arranged. ABC transcriptions by the O'Neill's Project (Bob Safranek, Dan G. Petersen, Dave Wooldridge, John B. Walsh, John Chambers, Michael D. Long, Michael Hogan, Nick Terhorst, Robert Thorpe, Stephen Foy, Tom Keays, Trish O'Neil, mvhplank), GNU GPL. Fireplace: field recording by BonnyOrbit (freesound.org, CC0). 🔔 Subscribe to Softfire Hollow for new cozy fantasy music every week. #halloweenmusic #darkcelticmusic #witchymusic