Description | Price |
Irish Trio to perform either 3 x 40 min sets or 2 x 60 min sets of Irish songs and tunes in a 3 hour period | £575 |
Ceilidh Quartet (3 musicians + dance caller) to perform 2 x 60 min sets of songs and dances in a 3 hour period | £765 |
London based Banish Misfortune Irish Ceili Band is both an Irish band and a ceilidh band. If you want Irish songs and tunes, played café style, the band provides an excellent Irish trio, comprising guitar/vocals, fiddle and bass to sing well known Irish songs mixed with rip roaring jigs and reels that are guaranteed to fill the dance floor.
Add a dance caller and you have the Banish Misfortune Ceilidh Quartet. Don’t worry if some of your guests have never danced ceilidh before. The band’s entertaining dance caller will start with easy dances that everyone can join easily join in with and the dance floor will soon be full. The caller will tailor the dances to suit your needs. If you want a Scottish feel, “Strip The Willow” and “The Dashing White Sergeant” will be included. No Irish ceili is complete without “The Siege of Ennis”!
With a decade’s experience of providing superb Irish nights, ceilidhs and barn dances for weddings, parties and corporate events, Banish Misfortune Irish Ceili Band is one of the best ceili party bands on offer in London. Your event is in safe hands with Ruth and the guys, who will make sure that every detail of your event is thought through in advance. All you have to do is relax and enjoy a great night of Celtic style dance and song.
Please note that prices are higher than quoted for the week that includes St Patrick's Day. If you want to book the band during St Pat's, please ask for a bespoke quote.
Based in East London
IRISH SONGS
All For Me Grog
Arthur McBride
As I Roved Out
Banish Misfortune
Black Velvet Band
Brown-Eyed Girl
Carrickfergus
Dennis O’Reilly
Dirty Old Town
Dixieland
Fairytale Of New York
Fields Of Athenry
Fisherman’s Blues
Follow Me Up To Carlow
Galway Shawl
Green Fields Of France
Hillbilly Train
Lakes Of Ponchartrain
Londonderry Air (Danny Boy)
Marie’s Wedding
Mary And Her Gallant Soldier
McAlpine’s Fusiliers
My Match It Is Made
Parting Glass
Raglan Road
Ride On
Sally Gardens
Sally MacLenane
Sam Hall
Seven Drunken Nights
She Moved Through The Fair
Spancill Hill
Spanish Lady
Star Of The County Down
Step It Up Mary
Streams Of Whiskey
Sugar-Foot Rag
The Belle Of Belfast City
The Irish Rover
The Rare Old Mountain Dew
The Rocky Road To Dublin
Town I Loved So Well
Whiskey In The Jar
Wild Colonial Boy
Wild Rover
….and plenty more….
CEILIDH TUNES
Fairy Dance
Masons apron
Lark in the morning
Drummond Castle
Flowers of Edinburgh
East Neuk of Fife
Wind That Shakes the Barley
Foxhunters
Athol Highlanders
Cape Breton
Sonny Brogans
Banish Misfortune
The Kesh
Butterfly set
Tripping Upstairs
POPULAR CEILIDH DANCES
Dashing White Sergeant
Gay Gordons
Strip the Willow
Eightsome Reel
Cumberland Square Eight
Seige of Ennis
Waves of Tory
Bridge of Athlone
The Rifleman
Circassian Circle
Circle Waltz