Editing Pub session (section)

{{about|playing music in a pub|drinking alcohol in a pub|drinking session}}
{{short description|Making music while at a pub}}
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[[File:Mulligans session.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Irish music enthusiasts gather at a pub to play music and drink [[beer]]]]

A '''pub session''' ('''seisiún''' in [[Irish Language|Irish]]; '''seisean''' in [[Scottish Gaelic]]; '''seshoon''' in [[Manx Gaelic]]) is performing music in the setting of a [[public house|local pub]], in which the music-making is intermingled with the consumption of ale, stout, and beer and conversation.<ref name="Rough Guides 1999">{{cite book |title=World Music: Africa, Europe and the Middle East |publisher=Rough Guides |series=Music reference series |year=1999 |isbn=978-1-85828-635-8 |url=https://archive.org/details/roughguidetoworl00simo |url-access=registration |access-date=17 September 2018 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/roughguidetoworl00simo/page/172 172]–173}}</ref> Performers sing and play traditional songs and tunes<ref name="Rough Guides 1999" /> from the Irish, English, Scottish, Cornish, and Manx traditions, using instruments such as the [[fiddle]], [[accordion]], [[concertina]], [[flute]], [[tin whistle]], [[uilleann pipes]], [[tenor banjo]], [[guitar]], and [[bodhrán]].<ref name="Traditiones 2012">{{cite book |title=Traditiones |publisher=Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, Razred za filološke in literarne vede. |issue=v. 41, no. 1 |year=2012 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S9_sIfjYdhcC |access-date=24 September 2018 |page=38}}</ref> Some sessions have dancing too.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Bal Miniscule |url=http://balmini.org/about.php |website=Bal Miniscule |access-date=15 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=https://pubcrawlbudapest.hu/ |title= Pub Crawl Budapest }} Thursday, July 23, 2020 </ref>