Ceilidh Taggle

Act fee £500 to £795

Formed in 1998. Outstanding talent from the North London traditional music scene, can tailor a band to your particular needs - anything from a duo to a six-piece, amplified or acoustic, with or without a caller. All the musicians have been performing, touring and recording many years and two are award-winning performers. They play Irish, Scottish, English and American songs and tunes, and are both sensitive to the occasion and responsive to the mood of the audience. If you wish they could concentrate on one particular style all night e.g. Scottish or Irish. An example of a duo would be guitar/vocals and banjo. Their accordion player can be brought in to enlarge the band. Other instruments such as fiddle, flute, tin-whistle, double bass or snare drum may be added. Speciality instruments such as Scottish or Irish bagpipes, bodhran (Irish drum) or traditional dancers are also available. The most common format for a ceilidh consists of four musicians plus a caller who will teach the dances from scratch - no experience needed! A ceilidh is something really different and ideal for a successful party, as it is a fun way to get families, friends and colleagues to mix and meet and because all age groups become involved. Clients include Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall, Robert Smith of The Cure, Guy Ritchie, Jackie Clune The Baroness McDonagh and Sheila McDonagh MP, National Theatre, National Youth Orchestra and British Airways. Celebrities we've performed for include: Princess Beatrice, Princess Eugenie, Frank Skinner, Clive Anderson, Ian Hislop Stephen Fry, Alan Davis, Dara O'Briain, Sanjeev Bhaskhar, Meera Syal, Aimi MacDonald, Bert Weedon, Jon Snow, Imelda Staunton Venues include Return to Camden Town Festival, London NW1, Blenheim Palace, The National Liberal Club The Royal Festival Hall, Pinewood Studios, and HM Treasury TV appearences "Next" on Live TV, "Feilte" on TG4, End of shoot parties: "Poirot" & "The Bill" Film appearences "66" with Helena Bonham Carter and Catherine Tate Resident Musicians The Crown Moran Hotel, London NW2.

Music Samples

Gravel Walks

Lark in the Morning

Star of the County Down

Fields of Athenry

Act Video

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Act Info

Line-up

Guitar/vocals, Banjo, Accordion.

Extra Line-up(s)

Fewer musicians available e.g. duo or caller
Caller available with backing tracks or with the band to explain traditional dances
Additional instruments available e.g. fiddle flute or percussion

Also included

Dynacord Powermate 600 Mixer Amp, two EV speakers and Shure SM58 mics. Floodlights for the band.

Location

South East based and will travel to these areas: South East, Midlands.

Previous Clients

Clients include Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall, Robert Smith of The Cure, Guy Ritchie, Jackie Clune
The Baroness McDonagh and Sheila McDonagh MP, National Theatre, National Youth Orchestra and British Airways.

Song List
Main Set
As I Roved Out (Christy)
Auld Lang Syne
Back Home in Derry
Band Played Waltzing MatildaBlack is the Colour
Black Velvet Band
Bold Grenadier
Bonny Ship the Diamond
Both Sides the Tweed
Brown Eyed Girl
Caledonia Clare to Here
Cliffs of Doneen
Cockles & Mussels
Come by the Hills
Danny Boy
Dark Island
Dirty Old Town
Fairytale of New York
Far away in Australia
Fiddlers Green
Fields of Athenry
Fleur of Scotland
Foggy Dew
Galway Girl
Galway Shawl
Hallelujah
I'll Tell My Ma
Irish Rover
Isle of Tears
Jambalaya
Lakes of Ponchartrain
Last thing on my mind
Leaving of Liverpool
Lights of London
McAlpine's Fuseliers
Mountain Dew
Muirsheen Duirkin
My Lovely Rose of Clare
Nancy Spain
Only our Rivers run Free
Ordinary Man
Peggy Gordon
Queen Jane
Ride On
Sean South
Seven Drunken Nights
She Moved Through The Fair
Spancil Hill
Star of the County Down
Sweet Sixteen
Sweet Thames Flow Softly
Tipping it up to Nancy
Town I Love so well
Voyage
Waltzing for Dreamers
Whiskey in the Jar
Whistling Gypsy Rover
The Wild Colonial Boy
Wild Rover
Will you go Lassie Go
Willie McBride
World of Our Own
Rock & Pop
All My Loving
American Pie
Amorillo
Annie's Song
Brown Eyed Girl
Can't buy me love
Country Roads
Dance the Night Away
Fairytale of New York
From Me To You
Galway Girl
Hallelujah
Hey Good Lookin
I just called to say I love you
I'll never find another you
Love is the sweetest thing
Return to Sender
Summer Holiday
Twist & Shout / La Bamba
World of Our Own
Yesterday
Other popular songs we do
American Pie
Amorillo
Banks of the Ohio
Boys from the County Armagh
Bunch of Thyme
City of Chicago
Country Roads
Curragh of Kildare
Dance the Night Away
Do you want your old lobby washed down
Dublin in the Rare Old Times
Follow me up to Carlow
Get Back
Hallelujah
Hey Good Lookin
Hokey Cokey
I'm a Man you don't meet every day
Jolly Beggarman
Limerick you're a lady
Little Drummer
Liverpool Lou
Maggie
Marie's Wedding
Matty Groves
Mull of Kintyre
My own dear Galway Bay
Rattling Bog
Red Rose Cafe
Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
Sam Hall
Slievenamon
Soldiers' Song
Spanish Lady
Take me Home to Mayo
Viva La Quince Brigada
Waltzing Matilda
What shall we do with the drunken sailor?
Where the three counties meet
Willie and Mary
World Turned Upside Down
Songs popular in care centres
Ain't Misbehavin'
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life A Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square Annie's Song
Anniversary Waltz
Arriverdeci Roma
As Time Goes By
Blue Moon
Camptown Races / O'Suzannah / Turkey in the Straw
Daisy / Down at the Old Bull & Bush / I belong to Glasgow
Hey Good Lookin'
If you were the only Girl in the World
I just called to say I loved you
I know I'll never find another you
I'll Take you home again Kathleen
I'm getting married in the morning / Roll out the Barrel / My old Man said / Knees up Mother Brown
I'm in the mood for Love
It's a Long Way to Tipperary / Pack up your troubles / Coming Round the Mountain / When the Saints
Leaning on a Lampost
Lilly Marlene
Magic Moments
Maybe it's because / The Bells are Ringing / Lambeth Walk / Side by Side
My Way
On Mother Kelly's Doorstep
Que Sera Sera
Return to Sender
The Rose
Show me the way to go Home
Strangers in The Night
Street Where you Live
Summer Holiday
Tea for Two
That's Amore
Underneath the Arches
We'll Meet Again
When Irish Eyes are Smiling
White Christmas
White Cliffs of Dover
You Are my Sunshine
You Made me Love You
Tunes
Arkansas Traveler
Ashokan Farewell
Athole Highlanders
Banshee
Blackthorne Stick
Blarney Pilgrim
Boys of Bluehill
Calliopie House
Cliffs of Moher
Cock of the North
College Hornpipe (Sailors Hornpipe)
Congress
Cooley's
Cup of tea
Dashing White Sergeant
Dingle Regatta
Donnybrook Fair
Drowsy Maggie
Duke of Perth
Dusty Windowsill
Earl's Chair
Fairy Dance
Farewell To Erin
Flowers of Edinburgh
Golden Keyboard:
Gravel Walks
Hag at The Churn
Haste to the Wedding
High Reel
I'll buy boots for Maggie
I wanna be near you
Irish Washerwoman
Jig of Slurs
Keel Row
Kesh
Kid on the Mountain
King of the Fairies
Lark in the Morning
Maggie in the Wood
Maguire & Patterson's
Maid behind the Bar
Margaret's Waltz
Marie's Wedding
Martin Wynn's No 1 & No 2
Mason's Apron
Merry Blacksmith
Miss McLeods: Morrison's
Mountain Road
Musical priest
My Love is but a Lassie yet
My Love is Like a Red Red Rose
Nine Points of Roguery
Off to California
Orange & Blue
Otter's Den
Over the Moor to Maggie
Pinch of Snuff
Planxty Irwin
Rakish Paddy
Rattling Bog
Red Haired Boy/Little Beggarman
Rights of Man
Saddle the Pony
Sailor's Bonnet
Sally Gardens
Scotland the Brave
Sean Ryan's
Si Bheag Si Mhor
Silver Spear
Skye Boat Song
Sligo Maid
Soldiers Joy
Spanish Lady
Spider in the Bog
St Anne's
St Bernard's Waltz
Star of Munster
Statten Island
Swallows Tail
Tam Linn
Tarbolton
Teetotallers
The Rose Tree
Toss the Feathers
Tripping up the Stairs
Trumpet Hornpipe (Captain Pugwash)
Turkey in the Straw: Wise Maid:
Dances
Barn Dance
Big Set
Bridge of Athlone
Circassian Circle
Circle dance
Circle Waltz
Cumberland reel
Cumberland Square Eights
Danish Waltz
Dashing White Sergeant
Gay Gordons
Harvesting Jig
Haymakers jig
Hokey Cokey
I Want to be near you
Longways dances
Sausage roll
Seige of Ennis
Square dance
Strip the Willow
Virginia Reel
Walls of Limerick
Waves of Tory
Plus many more Scottish Irish and Barn Dance selections
And many more!...
Other Info

The price brackets above should be used as a guide only as all quotes are bespoke.Performance times for most acts except Tributes and some other Unique performers are usually 2 x 60 minute sets or 3 x 40 min sets. (If you require the act to perform longer than these times you may incur extra costs.)

Travel costs vary depending on the act and will be included to the quote given to you by our agents.

Our acts would usually expect to arrive around 6pm and to be finished around midnight.

(If you need the act to arrive earlier or finish later there may be extra costs but these can be negotiated.)