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Americana Bluegrass Boys
Staffordshire Bluegrass
Looking for a costumed American band for a cowboy themed event? The Americana Bluegrass Boys give you the good old-fashioned down-home Kentucky rural music tradition that first introduced the Nashville sound to the world. Want a Hoedown or square dance? The boys will include a dance caller.
Band of Wolves
Band Of Wolves
West Sussex Blues & R 'n' B
R'n'B refashioned into a rock-band context - think Climax Chicago Blues Band or John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - Band Of Wolves will give you high-quality heartfelt renditions of the cream of American electric blues
Banish Misfortune
Banish Misfortune (with caller)
London Ceilidh
London-based Banish Misfortune comes complete with a professional dance-caller, who will demonstrate and organise energetic country dances accompanied by lively sets of traditional Celtic songs and tunes
Banish Misfortune - With Caller
Banish Misfortune Irish
London Irish
Banish Misfortune performs a well-presented, eclectic and versatile mix of traditional and modern Irish songs, melodies and dance-tunes, certain to delight and enthrall audiences of all ages and all backgrounds
Biggin Hillbillies Kent Bluegrass Band
Biggin Hillbillies
Kent Bluegrass & Barn Dance
The Biggin Hillbillies is a Kent based five-piece bluegrass band performing vintage bluegrass songs, folk, ‘50’s and ‘60’s pop, Irish favourites and jazz standards, all delivered in classic bluegrass style. The band can include an additional caller to organise a barn dance hoedown
Black Velvet Band
Black Velvet Band
Bristol Ceilidh, Irish & Americana
Irish Ceili? Scottish Celidh? English Barn Dance? American Hoedown? Versatile professional musicians from Black Velvet Band present Irish, Scottish, English and American songs and dances, including an expert dance caller when needed and tailoring the style to suit your event
Blackbush
Blackbush
Manchester Irish
No truly Irish party is complete without such treats as 'The Star Of The County Down' or 'The Wild Rover'. The versatile Blackbush include all of the tried-and-tested classics, plus up-to-date pop and rock material
Blackthorn - Irish Band
Blackthorn
Kent & Sussex Irish Band
Blackthorn is a popular and experienced four-piece Irish band that performs lively, popular Irish songs - perfect for any wedding or party. The band includes a dance caller and can also provide organised ceili dancing.
Blazing Saddles
Blazing Saddles
Somerset Line Dance & Country
Blazing Saddles are simply the best ‘fun’ Wild West Theme Band there is! So get out your kerchiefs and yank on your cowboy boots for a slice of real live country entertainment as American as Mom's apple pie
Blue Velvet Unplugged
Blue Velvet Unplugged
Bristol Folk, Pop, Roots
The professional musicians from Blue Velvet Unplugged present a versatile mix of Folky Pop, Country, Folk and Swing Jazz. It's the perfect combination for a small family party or drinks reception.
Brand of Fire - With caller
Brand Of Fire (with caller)
Gloucetershire Ceilidh
Based in Gloucestershire, Brand of Fire ceilidh band comes complete with caller to organise the dances. Expect high energy jigs and reels and simple dances everyone can join in. It is a great recipe for a barn dance or ceili!
Brand of Fire
Brand Of Fire Irish
Gloucestershire Irish
If you are an exceptional Irish band that performs the very best of the Gaelic and Celtic tradition, look no further than Brand of Fire. A traditional ceili and Irish music night has to be one of the best all-inclusive styles of family party!
Bristol Ceilidh Quartet: Wedding Barn Dance and Ceilidh Band
Bristol Ceilidh Quartet
Bristol Ceilidh & Barn Dance
Three folk fiddlers and a ‘cellist join together to create the exciting and innovative Bristol Ceilidh Quartet. Add a dance caller to the quartet of musicians and you’re ready to ceilidh or barn dance.
Bristol Klezmer Band
Bristol Klezmer Band
Bristol Klezmer and Jewish
The Bristol Klezmer Band can offer a trio of strolling gypsy musicians for drinks receptions, or a dynamic five or six-piece outfit fronted by soaring saxophone, clarinet and trombone for dancing later in the evening. The band can include swinging Gypsy Jazz if required.
The Burdock Ceilidh Band
Burdock Ceilidh Band
Birmingham Ceilidh
Presenting authentic traditional music and dances from the British Isles, The Burdock Ceilidh Band guarantees to get everyone up dancing, and will put together a package to suit both your event and your pocket
Cheesecake
Cheesecake
Surrey Irish and Pop
Specialising in generating the perfect party atmosphere by playing the best of Irish music with a rocking twist, Cheesecake also turn their hands to a wide range of classic pop for a full-on night of entertainment
Cut The Mustard
Cut The Mustard (with caller)
Birmingham Ceilidh
Cut The Mustard serves up a brilliant mix of traditional Celtic folksongs and tunes. The band comes complete with a specialist caller who will explain, demonstrate and organise dances that everybody will enjoy
Cut The Mustard
Cut The Mustard Irish
Birmingham Irish
One of the best Irish bands in the Midlands, Cut The Mustard serve up a brilliant selection of well known Irish songs and tunes.
Dave Murrell Acoustic Blues
Dave Murrell Acoustic Blues
West Sussex Acoustic Blues, Roots
The brash, clashing and vibrant society that was the emerging urban America of a century ago springs vividly to life through The Blues - a body of songs that represent the mundane experiences of ordinary people on the street way back then.
Debi Hall
Debi Hall And The Honky Tonk Angels
Hampshire Line Dance Band
Debi and The Honky Tonk Angels present a lively American themed show that includes all of the well-known country classics. The band can include an optional hour of line dancing or square dancing with caller.
Debi Hall Line Dance Duo or Trio
Debi Hall Line Dance Duo or Trio
Kent Line Dance Duo
With Debi on the stage, singing and calling the dances along with her Nashville- style fiddler & additional singer / line dancer, accompanied by backing tracks, the Debi Hall Line Dance Duo or Trio offers the sound and feel of a full country band at a fraction of the cost.
Denifari African Drums and Dance - Manchester
Denifari African Drums And Dance
Manchester African Drums
Denifari Drums And Dance Troupe invite audiences into the soulful world of West African culture in exhilarating and colourful exhibitions that combine djembe and kora music with captivating Senegalese dancing
Depot Acoustic Blues Band
Depot Acoustic Blues Band
Manchester Blues
This acoustic blues trio plays a classic mixture of old and new. Double-bass sets tone and rhythm, expressive guitar adds an iconic American texture as rootsy harmonica lends the topline a real country character
Flamin' Great Barn Dance Band
Flamin’ Great Barn Dance Band
Brighton Barndance
It really doesn't matter what you call it - an English Barndance, a Scottish Ceilidh, an Irish Ceili or an American Hoedown - it's a sure-fire prescription for family-style entertainment, great for weddings and parties
Grinch Mountain
Grinch Mountain
London American Bluegrass
Grinch Mountain - London’s premier bluegrass band - gives you fiddle and banjo led Vintage Americana at its very best. The band includes a dance caller to get everyone up on their feet for a good ole hoedown barn dance!
Jake Leg Jug Band
Jake Leg Jug Band
Midlands American Jug Band
The Jake Leg Jug Band presents Vintage Americana - Jazz, Blues, Gospel, Ragtime from the early 20th Century. Dressed in keeping with the period, the band adds picturesque and original atmosphere to American themed events.
Jalikunda African Drums
Jalikunda African Drums
Bristol African Drums
Jalikunda presents a blend of West African melody and rhythm, with the rippling harp-like sounds of the kora and hand-held djembe drums generating mesmerising cross-rhythms that will set the pulses racing
King Ceilidh Barndance Band
King Ceilidh Barn Dance Band
Hampshire & Wiltshire Ceilidh & Barn Dance
King Ceilidh deliver an energetic, fun-filled session of ceilidh dancing that everybody can enjoy in English, Scottish, Irish ceili or even American Hoedown style - you take your pick. A rip-roaring assortment of jigs, reels, polkas and hornpipes will have all your guests up on their feet.
Klonk Klezmer Band for weddings and parties
Klonk Gypsy Klezmer
Yorkshire Klezmer
This young, energetic six-piece outfit perform an exciting mixed selection of Eastern European and traditional Jewish klezmer music, and can also provide a specialist dance-caller to organise a klezmer ceilidh
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Knoxville Highway
Birmingham Country
This band of brothers share a passion for American Country Music. From foot-stomping Bluegrass, through well-known Country classics, to the infectious rhythms of Tex-mex, this band are sure to have something for everybody at your event.
Mapaluna Ceildih Band
Mapaluna
Somerset Ceilidh, Klezmer, Parisian, Gypsy
Ceildh with caller? Parisian Boulevard Duo? Gypsy Jazz? Klezmer? This versatile ensemble plays it all! The choice is yours. Let us know the style you want and we'll organise a band to suit.
Mat Walklates Men
Mat Walklate’s Irish Band
Manchester Irish
Mat Walklate's Men perform the well known Irish songs that everyone knows and loves. They are indeed one of the best-known and deservedly most popular Irish bands in Manchester!
Mat Walklates Men - With Caller
Mat Walklate’s Men (with caller)
Manchester Ceilidh
Mat Walklate's Men play the very best dance-tunes from the Gaelic music tradition. Musicians with a real feel for their genre, they always deliver a memorable performance, with a caller organising the dancing
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Maximum Ceili
London Ceilidh
Bringing together some of London's talented young Irish musicians, Maximum Ceili presents an exciting modern take on traditional Irish jigs, reels and polkas. The band comes complete with a dance-caller, providing the perfect ceili option for wedding, anniversary or birthday parties .
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Midnight Ramble Ceili Band
Bath Irish
This experienced four or five-piece perform an engaging mix of Irish songs and tunes. The four-piece includes a ceili-caller for organised dancing, and the five-piece presents a raunchy set of American Country/Pop
Montana Rain American Country & Line Dance Band for hire in Sussex & Kent
Montana Rain
Kent & Sussex American Country & Line Dancing
Dressed in cowboy costume, performing popular Country songs and including a line-dance caller, five piece band Montana Rain is perfect choice an American themed event.
Oysland Klezmer Band - London wedding band
Oysland Klezmer Band
London Klezmer
London-based Oysland provides a youthful “take” on the Balkan Klezmer tradition - perfect for weddings and bar mitzvahs. The band is available from a duo to a full-on seven piece and can include a dance caller.
Paddy Goes To Hollyrood - an Irish Band in Scotland
Paddy Goes To Holyrood
Edinburgh Irish
Edinburgh based Paddy Goes To Holyrood presents the best of the Irish tradition in Scotland. Look forward to all the well-known Irish songs combined with toe-tapping jigs and reels, laced with a good spot of the blarney. The perfect combination for a Scottish Irish wedding ceili!
Padraig's People - Irish Wedding Band
Padraig’s People
West Wales Irish
Padraig’s People is a high-energy, experienced Irish band performing all your favourite songs with style and conviction. Look forward to a wild party in The Dubliners style!
Ponchartrain
Ponchartrain
Bristol Country Bluegrass
There's one thing you can be quite sure of with Country Music - it comes from the heart. Expect Ponchartrain to transport you over the big pond and right down to that little bar in Nashville where it's all happening!
Red Hot Ceilidh Band
Red Hot Ceilidh Band
Kent Ceilidh Band
The Red Hot Ceilidh Band is a group of highly-skilled players, musically responsive to one another and able to take the music to new dimensions. With an experienced dance-caller, this is ceilidh at its very best!
Ceilidh dancing at the party
Sergeant Early’s Dream (with caller)
Bristol Ceilidh
Playing an exciting mix of traditional Irish jigs, polkas, hornpipes and reels alongside an experienced 'caller' to organise dances, Sergeant Early's Dream are probably one of the most exciting Ceilidh bands Bristol offers
Sergeant Earlys Dream
Sergeant Early’s Dream Irish
Bristol Irish
Sergeant Early's Dream reaches back into the past, both recent and more remote, and picks out the very best of the tried-and-trusted melodies, songs and dance-tunes that have delighted folk down the centuries
Shannagh - Manchester Celidh & Irish Band
Shannagh (with caller)
Manchester
Bringing the authentic sounds of Ireland to the Northwest of England and further afield, Shannagh ceilidh band specialise in delivering rip-roaring sessions of traditional Celtic music and ceilidh-dancing that everyone will enjoy!
Shannagh
Shannagh Irish
Manchester Irish
This flexible band presents Irish Music at its very best. With keyboard sitting at the centre of the sound, the full line-up incorporates an All-Ireland Whistle Champion and a BBC Young Tradition finalist on the fiddle
Shulmans Gypsy Jazz Band
Shulman’s Gypsy Jazz Band
London Gypsy Jazz
An extremely versatile and talented band who perform a diverse range of lively traditional styles from around the world including Eastern European Gypsy music, Jewish Klezmer, Simcha and American Swing Jazz
Smoking Guns Hoedown Band
Smoking Gunns Hoedown Band
Glasgow American Country
With three decades of experience under their belts, Smoking Gunns Hoedown Band performs all the well-known American Country and Western favourites, bringing along a professional line-dancing caller if required
Manchester Ceilidh and Irish Band
Special Brew Ceilidh (with caller)
Manchester Ceilidh
Special Brew plays the best of traditional and contemporary Irish songs, dance-tunes and other Celtic music, with organised ceilidh dancing guaranteed to have everybody on their feet and jigging away!
Manchester Ceilidh and Irish Band
Special Brew Irish
Manchester Irish
Special Brew presents the very best of traditional and contemporary Irish songs and tunes, generating a festive, joyful party atmosphere at live performances that is guaranteed to have the audience up on their feet
Spill The Whisky - Ceilidh Band Bath
Spill The Whiskey
Bath Ceilidh
Spill The Whiskey are one of the most versatile bands around. Superb Celtic music featuring Irish and Scottish songs and dancetunes, together with an experienced dance-caller to organise a ceilidh or barndance
Tatterjacks
Tatterjacks
Kent Ceilidh & Irish
Tatterjacks bring you the very best in traditional Irish party music, from frenetic jigs, polkas and reels to all your singalong favourites - add in a dance-caller and you have all the ingredients for a wild Irish knees-up!
Alistair Lennox Ceilidh Band
The Alistair Lennox Ceilidh Band
Glasgow Scottish Ceilidh
The Alistair Lennox Ceilidh Band is an enthusiastic ensemble of versatile Celtic traditional musicians, whose energetic, creative and professional manner of presentation reaches out to appeal to all age-groups
Wedding Guests Dancing
The Backing-Track Barn Dance
Devon Barn Dance
Performing solo with pre-recorded music on backing tracks, this professional, well-practised specialist dance-caller offers an extremely cost-effective ceilidh or barndance, suitable for beginners or experts alike
The Craickers - Irish, Pop, Indie Band Manchester
The Craickers
Manchester Irish & Pop
An Irish Rock band, offering the finest mixed repertoire of modern Irish & Country music with Indie & Rock classics, Manchester-based three or four piece band - The Craickers - is perfect for weddings and parties.
The Hoedown Band
The Hoedown Band
Hertfordshire Country & Line Dance
Grab your Stetson, polish those rhinestones and come on down for just the best party ever. The Hoedown Band present their unique combination of rocky traditional and country style music to get your feet tapping
The London Gadjo Gypsies
The London Gadjo Gypsies
London Gypsy Jazz
Chancery Blame and The Gadjo Gypsies serve up a potent cocktail of Eastern European gypsy music, begged, borrowed, blagged and all muddled up with a telling twist of klezmer and a devilish dash of rock'n'roll
The Porter Boys
The Porter Boys
Bristol Irish
Expect superb, characterful harmony vocals that might give The Dubliners a run for their money - driven along by tasty guitar and banjo and topped with lashings of fine fiddle and the odd trill of a penny whistle
The Red Hillbillies - Somerset Country Band
The Red Hillbillies
Bristol American Country
Performing a variety of American country classics from the '50s onwards, The Somerset Hillbillies are a six-piece outfit. The perfect option for a cowboy themed event, these folks simply love to bring a smile to your face and a spring to your step!
The Shlepping Mishpacha - London Klezmer Band
The Shlepping Mishpacha
London Klezmer
Klezmer reflects the culture of a people who fought hard to maintain their existence in the face of international social exclusion. The expression of joy in their music is so vivid, it comes close to incandescence
Thingumajig Ceilidh Band - Sussex & Kent Irish ceili band
Thingumajig Ceilidh Band
Kent & Sussex Ceilidh Band
A versatile and experienced four-piece band that includes a dance caller and popular folk songs. Perfect for an Irish wedding ceili, a lively barn dance, hoedown or Scottish ceilidh.
Tommys Ceilidh Crew - With Caller
Tommy Dempsey’s Irish Ceili Band
Birmingham Irish
Steeped in the incomparably rich musical tradition of the British Isles, and Ireland in particular, Tommy's Crew present their contagious selection of the very best Irish and Celtic songs, melodies and dance-tunes
Tommys Ceeilidh Crew - with Caller - Birmingham Ceilidh Band
Tommy’s Ceilidh Crew
Birmingham Ceilidh
Tommy's Ceilidh Crew presents an infectious mix of jigs, polkas, reels and hornpipes, played with tremendous verve and enthusiasm. Add their seasoned dance-caller to the mix and you're in for a fantastic party! It's a brilliant ceilidh band.