The Biggin Hillbillies is a five piece banjo and fiddle led band that performs a varied repertoire of vintage bluegrass songs, folk, ‘50’s and ‘60’s pop, Irish favourites and jazz standards, all played in classic bluegrass style. The band is an established act on the bluegrass festival circuit and is guaranteed to add authentic American class to a Wild West themed event.
" Vintage American Bluegrass band with barn dance hoedown option"
Th Biggin Hillbillies perform vintage bluegrass favourites from Flatt & Scruggs, The Stanley Brothers & Bill Munroe and country classics from Johnny Cash, John Denver and Jimmie Rodger. The band also Includes Irish favourites ‘Whiskey in the Jar’ and jazz standards like ‘Sweet Georgia Brown’ all played authentic bluegrass style.
The band can bring an additional dance caller to organise a hoedown-style barn dance. The dances are easy to pick up and you don’t need to be an expert to join in. So, pull on your cowboy boots and get onto the dance floor – you’ll soon be swinging your partner along with the best of them!
- Vintage American bluegrass with added Irish folk, jazz and pop favourites. .
- Additional caller available for a barn dance hoedown.
- Fully-equipped with a top-quality PA system
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Repertoire
Bluegrass
- All Prayed Up
- Angelina Baker
- Arkansas Traveller
- Armadillo Breakdown
- Ashokan Farewell
- Back Up And Push
- Ballad of Jed Clampet
- Beats Me
- Before I Met You
- Bill Cheetham
- Billy In The Low Ground
- Billys Night Out
- Blackberry Blossom
- Blue Ridge Mountain Blues
- Blue Ridge Mountain Home
- Blue Ridge Cabin Home
- Blue Train
- Bluegrass Breakdown
- Bluegrass in the Backwoods
- Brown Eyes
- Buffalo Girls
- Cabin in the Pines
- Cherokee Shuffle
- Cincinnati Rag
- Cindy
- Columbia Stockade
- Cotton Eyed Joe
- Cripple Creek
- Dark Hollow
- Days Reel
- Dear Old Dixie
- Devils Dream
- Devil Comes Down To Georgia Dm
- Dill Pickle Rag
- Dim the Lights
- Dixie Darling
- Dooley
- Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down
- Duelling Banjos
- Earls Breakdown
- Eight More Miles To Louisville
- Eighth of January
- Fair and Tender Maiden
- Farewell Blues
- Firemans Reel
- Foggy Mountain Breakdown
- Gotta Travel On
- Groundspeed
- Hallelluya
- Hamilton County
- Handsome Molly
- Hello Stranger
- Hermanns Rag
- Highway 40 Blues
- Hot Burrito Breakdown
- John Hardy
- Last Train to San Fernando
- Liberty
- Little Country Home in Tennessee
- Little Maggie
- Live & Learn
- Lonesome Fiddle Blues
- Love Come Home
- Mama Don’t Allow
- Man of Constant Sorrow
- Miss You All the Time
- Mountain Dew
- Mountain Girls
- Mule Skinner Blues
- New River Train
- Old Folks At Home
- Old Home Place
- Old Joe Clark
- Orange Blossom Special
- Pike County Breakdown
- Rawhide
- Red Apple Rag
- Red Haired Boy
- Redwing
- Road To Colombus
- Rocky Top
- Rolling In My Sweet Babys Arms
- Salt Creek
- Salty Dog
- Send Me Your Address From Heaven
- Sleep With One Eye Open
- Soldiers Joy
- Stanns Reel
- Stones Rag
- Stoney Point
- Streamline Cannonball
- Take Me Back to Tulsa
- This Train
- Top of the World
- Truck Driving Man
- Turkey In The Straw/Chicken Reel
- Under The Double Eagle
- Under the Weeping Willow
- White Freight Liner
- Whitewash Chimney
- Whoa Mule Whoa
- Who Walks In
- Wildwood Flower
- You’ll Come
Country
- Abelene
- Act Naturally
- Always On My Mind
- Annies Song
- Back Home In Louisiana
- Banks Of The Ohio
- Battle of New Orleans
- Blue Christmas
- Blue Eyes
- Crying In The Rain
- Bring a Little Water Silvie
- Bully of the Town
- Charmane
- Cigareets & Whisky
- Cold Cold Heart
- Country Roads
- Crazy
- Crying My Heart Out Over You
- Diamonds & Stones
- Folsom Prison Blues
- Frankie & Johnny
- Freight Train
- Ghost Riders in the Sky
- Goodnight Irene
- Good Ol Boys
- Green Green Grass Of Home
- Gypsy Woman
- Have I Told You Lately
- Have You Ever Been Lonely
- He’ll Have To Go
- Hey Good Looking
- Honky Tonk Angels
- I Got Stripes
- I Love You Because
- I Walk The Line
- Its Good To Be Back Home
- Keep on the Sunny Side
- Kentucky Waltz
- King Of The Road
- Leaving On A Jet Plane
- Long Black Veil
- Long Summer Day
- Pardon Me
- Peach Picking Time In Georgia
- Please Help Me I’m Falling
- Ring Of Fire
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- Sloop John B
- Small Exception Of Me
- Sweet Mary
- Take The Ribbon From Your Hair
- Take These Chains
- Tennessee Waltz
- The Day Hank Williams Came to Town
- The Engineers D’ont Wave from The Trains
- Thinking Tonighht of My Blue Eyes
- Warbash Cannonball
- West Bound & Down
- America
Irish
- All For Me Grog
- Black Velvet Band
- Cockles & Mussels
- Cod Liver Oil
- Danny Boy
- Delaneys Donkey
- Dirty Old Town
- Do You Want Your Old Lobby Washed Down
- Drowsy Maggie
- Drunken Sailor
- Fields of Athenry
- Fox Hunter
- I’ll Tell Me Ma
- Irish Rover
- Irish Song
- Irish Washerwoman
- Jar Of Porter
- Little Beggar Man
- Maggie
- Masons Apron
- McAlpines Fusiliers
- Mountain Dew
- Muirsheen Durkin
- Paddy McGintys Goat
- Rake of Mallow
- Sailors Hornpipe
- Salamanka/Temperance Reel
- Salonika
- Scotts Reel/Rake Of Mallow
- Seven Deadly Sins
- Seven Drunken Nights
- Star of County Down
- Sweet Sixteen
- Temperence Reel (Salamanca)
- Whiskey In The Jar
- Whiskey Before Breakfast
- Wild Rover
- Will You Go
Jazz
- Alabama Jubilee
- All Of Me
- Black & White
- Blue Skies
- Bye Bye Blues
- Camptown Races
- Dark Town Strutters Ball
- Everybody Thinks Your Wonderful
- Goody Goody
- I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
- It Had To Be You
- Limehouse Blues
- Minor Swing
- Mister Sandman
- Parting Of The Ways
- Pennies From Heaven
- Sentimental Journey
- September Song
- Summertime
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Sweet Sue
- The Enttertainer
- Twighlight Time
- Walkin & Whistling Blues
- You Made Me Love You
’50’s & ’60’s Pop
- All I Have To Do Is Dream
- Brown Eyed Girl
- Dance The Night Away
- Dedicated Follower Of Fashion
- Dream Dream Dream
- Fool Such As I
- Hello Mary Lou
- High Heeled Sneekers
- House Of The Rising Sun
- I guess it doesn’t matter anymore
- If I Had A Hammer
- I’ve Just Seen A Face
- Its All Over Now
- Jingle Bells
- Lemon Tree
- Liverpool Lou
- Living Doll
- Living Next Door To Alice
- Lonesome Tonight
- Love Me Tender
- Mary Lou
- Mean Woman Blues
- Memphis
- Michelle
- One Night
- Please Release Me
- Raining In My Heart
- Rock Around the Clock
- Sea of Heartbreak
- Song Sung Blue
- Sunny Afternoon
- Travelling Light
Bill –
Bill
You guys were amazing. Thankyou for making the night such a success. Will be recommending you guys.
Sian –
Sian
Such fun last night. Thought Jimmy’s fiddlin’ was fantastic! Lesley
Sean –
Sean
Hello! You were fantastic at the Kent County Show today! You played a Django Reinhardt song and I was wondering what it was, as I loved it?! Thanks!