2 x 45 minute sets: |
Quintet: £1029 |
Sextet (including singer): £1210 |
Add Ons: |
Solo - accordion - 2 x 45 minute sets: £188 This is an extra option that can be added for afternoon sets (e.g. Drinks Reception) if a full line-up is booked. |
Caravan Swing, the UK's most authentic Gypsie and Klez swing band.
We are comprised of some of the UK’s top musicians, from a broad range of backgrounds, Jewish and Gypsy folk to Jazz and Scottish trad. Our music is a unique, energy filled cocktail of authentic klezmer, gypsy jazz and Scottish music.
Consummate professionals, whilst we can fit into most musical setting, great or small, we also promise to intoxicate any large celebration (festival, wedding, bar mitzvah etc) with infectiously foot stomping tunes.
We have a large repertoire of klezmer classics, gypsy and straight ahead jazz as well as post-modern DB style arrangements of classic pop standards. We also revel breathing new life into Benny Goodman’s klezmer swing classics such as Bei Mir Bist Du Shon and Mahzel. As if that’s not enough, if you are wanting a more Scottish flavour, we have successfully fused gypsy swing with Scottish trad, and can play for and call a guid auld ceilidh, lead by our award winning fiddler Ruaridh. To top it, we also can provide professional Tango, Swing and Scottish Highland Dancers too to add a really special something to the occasion.
Experienced and dedicated, we formed in 2015 and have performed both as a band and individually throughout the UK and indeed across Europe at top venues including the Edinburgh Jazz Bar, Edinburgh Story Telling Club, Prague’s Jazz Dock, Glasgow’s The Old Fruit Market, BBC TV (Scotland) as well as for numerous weddings and community celebrations.
So whatever the event, if you like what we do there’s no need to schlep any further!
The full band is a 5tet, but we can also perform duet, trios, 4tet and 6tet combinations and we have a wonderful pool of fantastic Jazz vocalists to add a bit of sassiness to the set.
Based in Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Laner V’livsamim
At the rabies banquet
Hava Nagila
Oddesa Bulgar
Gasen Ngun
Tanz Tanz Yizdhelek
Ein nach in gan eden
Arabische Tanz
Turkische tanz
Romanische Hora
Happy Ngun
Various Frylekhs.
… and many more
Mahzel – Benny Goodman
Bei Mir Bist du schon – Benny Goodman
My heart Belongs to daddy – Benny Goodman
Night and Day
All of me
Puttin on the Ritz
Nuages
Noto Swing
Tchavolo
… and many more
Hits by Stevie Wonder
Hits by Amy Winehouse
Hits by Pharrell
Hits by Michael Jackson
… and many more
Ceilidh
Dashing White Sergeant
Strip the willow
Orcadian Strip the Widow
Canadian Barn Dance
Many many Scottish
traditional reels, jigs and strathspeys.
We also provide Highland Dancers -
Sword Dance, Fling, Seann Triubhas etc.
Electricity source 3x3amp sockets, 2 chairs, space to perform (min. 2mx3m), 2 parking spaces.
Set up takes about 1 hour.
BBC Scotland, Monachyl Mhor festival, Doune the Rabbithole Festival, CH2M engineering, Jazz Dock (Czech Republic), Edinburgh Story Telling Club, Edinburgh Jazz Bar