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Country Dance Bands in  Wiltshire   

Find country dance bands available in   Wiltshire  on our live music website

Use the drop down box to select  Wiltshire  Country Dance Bands

Here's a few of our country dance bands across the UK. To find the country dance bands in   Wiltshire  select your county from the drop down box. This will show all of our country dance bands that play in your area.

 
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History is reflected in the names of folk tunes. Here are some that may be played by country dance bands

   MURPHY’S HORNPIPE MUSIC IN THE GLEN; MY DARLING ASLEEP; O’DOWD’S; Off She Goes ; Oh Dear, What Can The Matter Be,; Oh Susanna ; Old French ; Old Joe Clark; Old Joe's Ife ; Old Man of Mow ; OLD MAN DILLON; PEADAR CLANCY’S; THE PORTARLINGTON JIG THE SCHOLAR; SPIKE ISLAND LASSIES; THE STAR OF MUNSTER; Olde Tyme Quadrille ; On Christmas Night ; On The Road To Boston ; On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine ; One For The Pot ; One More Dance & Then ; One More Step ... ; THE STEAMPACKET THROW IT ACROSS THE ROAD; TIM THE TURNCOAT; TOM WARD’S DOWNFALL; THE TONGS BY THE FIRE; THE WEST CURE THE WILD IRISHMAN; Opening Time ; Opera Reel ; Orange and Blue ; Orange in Bloom ; Orange Rogue ; Orcadian ; Outer Magnolia Reel ; THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY; BARMAID; BLACKBERRY BLOSSOM; BLACKTHORN STICK; BONNIE KATE; Over The Hills ; Oyster Girl ; Pack Up Your Troubles ; Paddy Carey ; Paddy in Flow ; Paddy the Dandy ; Paddy Whack ; BOYS OF THE LOUGH; BRIDAL JIG; BUSH IN BLOOM; CAPTAIN KELLY; CHERISH THE LADIES; Pam's Fancy ; Pant ar y Bys (Ridge on the finger) ; Pant Corlan yr Wyn (The sheep pen valley) ; Patchwork Polka ; Pat's Parlour ; Payne and Bond ;

 
 

What has been said about Country Dance Bands.      

Quotations about country dance 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

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  Wiltshire   

Weddings - Everyone can enjoy an evening with one of our Country Dance Bands, from the children to the grandparents.

Hear online music from our country dance bands

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

 
Here are just a few of the unusual names of country dance bands & other kinds of folk band      

 

The Roughditch Band ; Rufus Return ; Saxophony ; Scallywag ; Shake the Dice ; Shave the Monkey ; Shepherd's Hey ; Spike Island Band ; Spinning Jelly ; Squiffers ; Stocai ; Stömp ; Striding Edge ; Sundance ; Sunday Suits (and Muddy Boots) ;