Midsummer Music

Folk Bands in Derby

Have a fantastic experience with one of our Derby Folk Bands

Select Derby Folk Bands using the drop down box

This is just a selection of folk bands around the country. To find all our folk bands in Derby select your county from the drop down box to view the folk bands that play in your area.

Quotation and Booking - folk bands in Derby

If you are interested in one of our folk bands, send an email for a prompt, no obligation quotation. Want to discuss the musical options and alternatives for your special day? Phone or email us at Midsummer Music. We are here to help. To book us, email or phone, it's that simple.

The words of songs that may be sung by folk bands

Yo Ho Ho - - Fifteen men on a dead man's chest - Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum - Drink and the devil had done for the rest - Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. - The mate was fixed by the bosun's pike - The bosun brained with a marlinspike - And cookey's throat was marked belike - It had been gripped by fingers ten; - And there they lay, all good dead men - Like break o'day in a boozing ken - Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. - 2. Fifteen men of the whole ship's list - Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! - Dead and be damned and the rest gone whist! - Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! - - - he skipper lay with his nob in gore - Where the scullion's axe his cheek had shore - And the scullion he was stabbed times four - And there they lay, and the soggy skies - Dripped down in up-staring eyes - In murk sunset and foul sunrise - Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. - - 3. Fifteen men of 'em stiff and stark - Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! - Ten of the crew had the murder mark! - Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! - Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead - Or a yawing hole in a battered head - And the scuppers' glut with a rotting red - And there they lay, aye, damn my eyes - Looking up at paradise - All souls bound just contrawise - Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

What has been said about Folk Bands.

Much has been written about folk music and folk bands. Here are some quotations:-

Let me play to you tunes without measureor end, ~ Tunes that are born to die without a herald, ~ As a flight of storks rises from a marsh, ~circles, And alights on the spot from which it rose. ~Hugh MacDiarmid

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Derby

Weddings - A lively and fun evening for everyone with one of our Folk Bands

You can hear samples of our folk bands, online

Parties & Corporate events - Our highly versatile Folk Bands play for a wide spectrum of events, ranging from formal birthday parties to corporate sales events

Folk and Folk Bands can be really imaginitive with their names.

This Way Up ; Tiger Moth/Orchestre Super Moth ; Time of your Life ; La Toque Bleu ; Token Women ; Trebuchet ; Trinculo ; Tumbling Tom ; The Vegetable Thieves. ; Vivant!. ; Whapweasel ; Wheelwright's Bane ; The Whole Caboodle Band. ; Windy Mills ; The Woodpecker Band ;