Ceilidhs / Barn Dances for all occasions – Weddings / Anniversaries / Birthday Parties / Harvest Festival / St Patrick's / Burn's Night / Hogmanay...Whether you're looking for Irish / Scottish / English Ceilidh, American Hoedown / Barn Dance or an eclectic mixture of music and dances.
Bowstring Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band will lead you through fun dances and entertain you with their varied repertoire of songs and tunes to make your special event especially memorable.
Popular dances, suitable for complete beginners through to the more adventurous, include: The Virginia Reel, Gay Gordon's, Dashing White Sergeant, Cumberland Square Eight, Seige of Ennis, Waves of Tory, Bridge of Athlone, Strip the Willow and The Eightsome Reel.
Bowstring's selection of tunes drives the dances. From Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, America and beyond, they include:
- The Walls of Liscarroll / Banish Misfortune
- Jig of Slurs / Atholl Highlanders
- Calliope House / Kesh Jig / Rakes of Kildare
- Balquidder Lasses / Mairi's Wedding / The Highland Laddie
- Spootaskerry / The Silver Spear / The Sally Gardens / Miss McLeod's Reel
- The Dashing White Sergeant / Far From Home / The Hut On Staffin Island
- The White Cockade / The Rose Tree / Salmon Tails
- Merrily Kissed The Quaker's Wife / The Dingle Regatta
- The Connaughtman's Rambles / Pay The Reckoning / My Darling Asleep
- Redwing /June Apple / Waiting For The Federals
- Mountain Road / Joe Cooley's
- Hardiman The Fiddler / Fig For A Kiss / The Foxhunter's Jig
- Da Greenland Man / Schaals O' Foula / Christmas Day In The Morning
- Haste to The Wedding / Sixpenny Money / Morrison's Jig
- Flatbush Waltz
- Midnight On The Water
- The Dark Island / Ye Banks And Braes
- La Bastringue
- Cock Of The North / Hundred Pipers
- Harvest Home / Boys Of Bluehill / Soldiers Joy
- Sir Roger De Coverley
- John Ryan's Polka / Dennis Murphy's
- Newmarket Polka's / Ballydesmond Polka
- Rocky Road to Dublin / Kid On The Mountain
- The Bear Dance
- The Horses' Brawl
- Horizonto
Plus a varied range of songs to entertain the dancers when they need to catch their breath:
- Galway Girl
- Caledonia
- Country Roads
- Black Is The Colour
- Fields Of Athenry
- Ride On
- Wagon Wheel
- Runaway
- Both Sides Of The Tweed
- Molly Mallone
- When You Were Sweet Sixteen
- I'll Tell Me Ma
- Star Of The County Down
- Wild Rover
- Black Velvet Band
- Fisherman's Blues
- Loch Lomond
- Wild Mountain Thyme
Based in Kent
