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English Ceilidh Bands in  Dorset   

Have a traditional dance experience with one of our  Dorset  on this web site of music groups

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Below are some examples of bands. You can find english ceilidh bands in   Dorset  by select your county from the drop down box.

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

   Sweetheart Schottische; The Yellow Rose of Texas; Faded Love; Maidens Prayer; Thornbury Rise ; Thursday Night ; Tideswell Processional ; Timour The Tartar ; Tin Gee Gee,; Tinkerbell ; Tobin's Favourite,; Draggin’ the Bow; Bowstring Swing; Black Mountain Rag; Listen to the Mockingbird; Gardenia Waltz; Tom and Jerry,; Tom Howard's ; Tom Pate ; Top of the Cork Road,; Tralee Gaol ; Trent ; Trial Run ; Martin’s Waltz; Lullaby Waltz; Canadian Waltz; Flowers of the Dell; Festival Waltz; Trick Or Treat ; Tripping Upstairs ; Trumpet ; Turkey in the Straw ; Turnpike Side ; Twickenham Ferry ; Uncle George ; Tennessee Waltz; I’ll Be All Smiles Tonight; Rocky Top; San Antonio Rose; Lonesome Journey; Uncle George,; Up Jumped The Devil ; Valentine ; Verdi's Waltz ; Via Gellia ; Vole Crossing ; Wa', Footy Aygen The ; My Grandfather’s Clock; Blackeyed Suzie; Whoa Mule Whoa; Footprints in the Snow; Lonesome Road Blues; Waiting For The Federals,; Wakefield Hunt ; Walking In My Sleep ; Walking To Heel,; Walter Bulliver,;

 
 

Quotations about English Ceilidh Bands.      

Mention of english ceilidh bands and their instruments crop up throughout literature. Here are some quotations:-

A genuine peasant melody of our land is a musical example of perfected art. I consider it quite as much of a masterpiece—in miniature—as a Bach fugue or Mozart sonata is a masterpiece in the larger forms. ~ Bela Bartok

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Folk and English Ceilidh Bands can have very unusual names.      

 

Electropathics ; Fagin's Pocket ; The Famous Potatoes ; Fast Parts ; Fen Blow English Country Dance Band ; Fendragon ; Fiddlin' Around ; Fish n'Taters Ceilidh Band ; Fishing for Eels ; Five Bar'd Gait ; Five go off; Five Speed Box ; Five Minutes to Midnight ; Fleece Yard Ceilidh Band ; Flash Co ;