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English Barn Dance Bands in Durham

Enjoy a traditional evening with one of our Durham English Barn Dance Bands

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You can find English barn dance bands in Durham by select your county from the drop down box. The bands shown are just a selection across the UK.

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History is reflected in the names of folk tunes played by barn dance bands

GATES OF DERRY; GREENCASTLE; Silver Roses For June ; Singing of the Travels ; Sir Roger de Coverley,; Sir Sidney Smith ; Sir Watkin's Jigg ; Slashers ; Slip Jig ; HARVEST HOME; HIGH CAUL CAP; HUMOURS OF BANDON; HUMOURS OF CALIFORNIA; KILDARE HORNPIPE; Slip Jig,; Slow March for Pipers ; Sluggard Tapper, The ; Smash the Windows ; So Long ; Soldiers Dance,; Soldiers' Joy ; KINGSTON; KELLY’S HORNPIPE; LASS ON THE STRAND; LEITRIM FANCY; LIVERPOOL HORNPIPE; Solomon Levi ; Son's A Prawn, My ; So-so Polka ; Spanish Dance ; Speed The Plough ; Spencefield Lane ; Spence's Tent ; LONDONDERRY; MAGGIE BROWN; MAGGIE PICKENS; MANCHESTER; PLAINS OF BOYLE; Spider Island ; Sprig of Shillelah ; Squire of Bensham ; St Anne's ,; St Hugh's Jig ; St. Bruno,; St. Lawrence Jig,; PRETTY MAGGIE MORRISSER; RIGHTS OF MAN; SAND’S HORNPIPE; SEIGE OF ENNIS; SHAN VAN VOCHT; Staggering Home,; Staines Morris ; Starry Night for a Ramble ; Starry Nights of Shetland ; Staten Island,; Steam-boat Hornpipe ; Steamboat Quickstep ;

English Barn Dance Bands - Quotations.

A sample of what has been written about english barn dance bands. A Quotation:-

In strains more exalted the salt-box shall join, ~ And clattering and battering and clapping ~ combine; With a rap and a tap while the hollow side sounds, ~ Up and down leaps the flap, and with rattling rebounds. ~ Bonnell Thornton

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Durham

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Parties & Corporate events - a Barn Dance Band will get everyone up and enjoying the evening

English Barn Dance Bands can have names steeped in history or simply 'off the wall'

Durty Linen; The Aardvarks ; Albireo ; All Blacked Up - Gig list - Notes and Recordings ; Alf Alfa and the Wild Oats ; The Angel Band ; Angels of the North - Northern Ceilidh. ; Asha ; Bash Street Dance Band ; Bang on the Wall ; Bass Instincts ; Batter the Haddock ; Beatroot ; Bedcote Ceilidh Band ; Bedlam Bellows, ;