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Folk Groups in  Teeside   

Find folk groups available in   Teeside  on our live music website

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Some examples of our folk groups in England, Scotland and Wales are shown below. To find folk groups in   Teeside  select your county from the drop down box. This will show all of our folk groups who are within a reasonable distance of your venue.

 
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Folk groups - song lyrics

   Drake's Drum - - Drake he's in his hammock and a thousand miles away, - Captain, art thou sleeping there below? - Slung atween the round shot in Nombre Dios Bay, - And dreaming all the time of Plymouth Hoe. - Yonder looms the Island, yonder lie the ships, - With sailor-lads a-dancing heel-an'-toe, - And the shore-lights flashing, and the night-tide dashing, - He sees it all so plainly as he saw it long ago. - Drake he was a Devon man, an' ruled the Devon seas, - Captain, art thou sleeping there below? - Roving tho' his death fell, he went with heart at ease, - And dreaming all the time of Plymouth Hoe. - "Take my drum to England, hang it by the shore, - Strike it when your powder's running low; - If the Dons sight Devon, I'll quit the port o' Heaven, - And drum them up the Channel as we drummed them long ago."

 
 

Quotations about Folk Groups.      

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

To handle folk tunes is one of the most difficult tasks; equally difficult, if not more so than to write a major original composition. If we keep in mind that borrowing a tune means being bound by its individual peculiarity, we shall understand one part of the difficulty. Another is created by the special character of folk tune. We must penetrate into it, feel it and bring out its sharp contours by the appropriate setting.~ Bela Bartok

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  Teeside   

Weddings - Everyone can enjoy an evening with one of our Folk Groups, from the children to the grandparents.

You can hear samples of our folk groups, online

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

 
Here are just a few of the unusual names of folk groups & other kinds of folk band      

 

Kit and Boodle ; The Kitchen Girls ; Knit Your Own Yoghurt ; Knotted Chord ; Larkrise Ranters Ceilidh Band ; Last Resort Ceilidh Band ; Late Night Band - hibernating ; Life of Reilly; Liquid Engineering ; The Little Band ; The Long Meg Band ; Magic Bush Brothers ; Mallemarokers ; Matchless Ceilidh Band ; Metric Foot ;