Music

A traditional music band tailored to your specific requirements

Contact Wraggle Taggle Ceilidh Band to perform at your event in Greater London or the South East. 
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Traditional Irish and Scottish music

Wraggle Taggle Ceilidh Band are flexible enough as regards personnel, instrumentation and musical style to be able to tailor a band to each client's specific requirements. The band go out as anything from a duo to a six-piece, amplified or acoustic, with or without a caller, in London or the South East.


Award winning musicians Carlene Anglim (fiddle), Caroline Regan (concertina / whistles / vocals), and Mick O'Connor (tenor banjo) perform in various line ups with myself Mick Bailey (guitar/vocals). Other instruments such as, flute, or percussion may also be added. Our caller (if you need one} will teach the dances from scratch - no experience needed! A ceilidh is something really different and ideal for a successful party, as it is a fun way to get families, friends and colleagues to mix and meet and because all age groups become involved. The faster dances are an energetic work out, and we also play in a more relaxed romantic mood.

Contact Wraggle Taggle Ceilidh Band to discuss possible line-ups for our performance at your event in Greater London.

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Encouraging the audience to take part in our musical performance

Wraggle Taggle's most common format for a ceilidh consists of four musicians plus a caller who will teach the dances from scratch - no experience needed! A Ceilidh is ideal for a successful party, as it is a fun way to get families, friends and colleagues to mix and meet because all age-groups become involved. 

Wraggle Taggle will bring all necessary instruments and equipment. All the band need is a standard 13-amp power supply. 

Please consult the giglist if you would like to see the band and contact bandleader Mick Bailey to discuss which performance you would like to come to. It's best you attend an event similar to the one you are planning. Wraggle Taggle may need to ask for permission before inviting you to private functions.

Songs

Wraggle Taggle are equally at home doing a song-based performance as they are playing tunes for a dance. Bandleader Mick Bailey built his extensive repertoire of songs during many years performing in public.

   

Main Set


As I Roved Out (Christy)

Auld Lang Syne

Back Home in Derry

Band Played Waltzing Matilda

Black is the Colour

Black Velvet Band

Bonny Ship the Diamond

Brown Eyed Girl

Caledonia

Clare to Here

Cliffs of Doneen

Cockles & Mussels

Come by the Hills

Danny Boy

Dark Island

Dirty Old Town

Fairytale of New York

Far away in Australia

Fiddlers Green

Fields of Athenry

Fleur of Scotland

Foggy Dew

Galway Girl

Galway Shawl

Homes of Donegal

I'll Tell My Ma

Irish Rover

Isle of Tears

Jambalaya

Lakes of Ponchartrain

Last thing on my mind

Leaving of Liverpool

Lights of London

McAlpine's Fuseliers

Mountain Dew

Muirsheen Duirkin

My Lovely Rose of Clare

Nancy Spain

Only our Rivers run Free

Ordinary Man

Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore

Peggy Gordon

Queen Jane

Rainy Night in Soho

Ride On

Sean South

Seven Drunken Nights

Spancil Hill

Star of the County Down

Sweet Sixteen

Sweet Thames Flow Softly

Tipping it up to Nancy

Town I Love so well

Whiskey in the Jar

Whistling Gypsy Rover The

Wild Colonial Boy

Wild Rover

Will you go Lassie Go

Willie McBride

World of Our Own


Rock / Pop


All My Loving

American Pie

Amorillo

Annie's Song

Brown Eyed Girl

Can't buy me love

Country Roads

Dance the Night Away

Fairytale of New York

From Me To You

Galway Girl

Hallelujah

Hey Good Lookin

I just called to say I love you

I'll never find another you

I want to hold your hand

Return to Sender

Stand by Me

Summer Holiday

Twist & Shout / La Bamba

World of Our Own

Yesterday


Other popular songs we do

500 miles

American Pie

Amorillo

Banks of the Ohio

Both Sides the Tweed

Boys from the County Armagh

Bunch of Thyme

Cavan Girl

Charlie Is My Darling

City of Chicago

Country Roads

Curragh of Kildare

Dance the Night Away

Donald, Wheres Your Trousers

Do you want your old lobby washed down

Dublin in the Rare Old Times

Follow me up to Carlow

Galway Bay 

Grace

Hey Good Lookin

Hokey Cokey

The Homes Of Donegal

I'm a Man you don't meet every day

Jolly Beggarman

Maggie

Marie's Wedding

My own dear Galway Bay

Now I'm Easy

On the one road

Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore

Rainy Night In Soho

Red Rose Cafe

Slievenamon

Soldiers' Song

Spanish Lady

Take me Home to Mayo

Waltzing Matilda

What shall we do with the drunken sailor?

Where the three counties meet

Willie and Mary


Songs popular in care centres


Ain't Misbehavin'

A Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square

Annie's Song

Anniversary Waltz

Arriverdeci Roma

As Time Goes By

Blue Moon

Camptown Races / O'Suzannah / Turkey in the Straw

Daisy / Down at the Old Bull & Bush / I belong to Glasgow

Hey Good Lookin'

If you were the only Girl in the World

I just called to say I loved you

I know I'll never find another you

I'll Take you home again Kathleen

I'm getting married in the morning / Roll out the Barrel / My old Man said / Knees up Mother Brown

I'm in the mood for Love

It's a Long Way to Tipperary / Pack up your troubles / Coming Round the Mountain / When the Saints

Leaning on a Lampost

Lilly Marlene

Magic Moments

Maybe it's because / The Bells are Ringing / Lambeth Walk / Side by Side

My Way

On Mother Kelly's Doorstep

Que Sera Sera

Return to Sender

Rose, The

Show me the way to go Home

Strangers in The Night

Street Where you Live

Summer Holiday

Tea for Two

That's Amore

Underneath the Arches

We'll Meet Again

When Irish Eyes are Smiling

White Christmas

White Cliffs of Dover

You Are my Sunshine

You Made me Love You


And many, many more!....

Dances

A ceilidh or barn dance is an evening of informal traditional dancing. Perfect for a wedding or party, it is suitable for all ages and provides a great way for people to mix and socialize. The faster dances are an energetic work out, and Wraggle Taggle also play in a more relaxed romantic mood.

No experience necessary!

Our callers teach the dances from scratch - no experience necessary! Everyone will have a good time! Mistakes are half the fun of it! Nowadays there's lots of crossover between traditions, but the dances are thought to have originated in particular countries or regions. If you prefer, Wraggle Taggle can offer dances concentrating on one style e.g. Scottish or Irish. 
  
The selection of dances at your function depends on your caller using their experience, working with the audience and going with what works best.
  
Some of the dances Wraggle Taggle have presented over the years
Barn Dance
Big Set
Bridge of Athlone
Circassian Circle
Circle dance
Circle Waltz
Cumberland reel
Cumberland Square Eights
Danish Waltz 
Dashing White Sergeant 
Gay Gordons
Harvesting Jig
Haymakers jig
Hokey Cokey 
I Want to be near you
Longways dances
Sausage roll 
Seige of Ennis
Square dance
Strip the Willow
Virginia Reel
Walls of Limerick
Waves of Tory 

Plus many more Scotish, Irish and Barn Dance selections
Wraggle Taggle Ceilidh Band great wedding entertainment

Tunes

Wraggle Taggle have an extensive repertoire of traditional tunes. There wouldn't be space to list all the tunes we might do, there's literally thousands in the tradition. 

Here's a few favorites
Arkansas Traveler:
Ashokan Farewell:
Athole Highlanders:
Banshee:
Blackthorne Stick:
Blarney Pilgrim:
Boys of Bluehill:
Calliopie House:
Cliffs of Moher:
College Hornpipe (Sailors Hornpipe):
Congress:
Cooley's:
Cup of tea:
Dashing White Sergeant:
Dingle Regatta:
Donnybrook Fair:
Drowsy Maggie:
Duke of Perth:
Dusty Windowsill:
Earl's Chair:
Fairy Dance:
Farewell To Erin:
Flowers of Edinburgh:
Golden Keyboard:
Gravel Walks:
Hag at The Churn:
Haste to the Wedding:
High Reel:
I'll buy boots for Maggie:
I wanna be near you:
Irish Washerwoman:
Jig of Slurs:
Keel Row:
Kesh:
Kid on the Mountain:
King of the Fairies:
Lark in the Morning:
Maggie in the Wood:
Maguire & Patterson's:
Maid behind the Bar:
Margaret's Waltz:
Marie's Wedding:
Martin Wynn's No 1 & No 2:
Mason's Apron:
Merry Blacksmith:
Miss McLeods:
Morrison's:
Mountain Road:
Musical priest:
My Love is but a Lassie yet:
Nine Points of Roguery:
Off to California:
Orange & Blue:
Otter's Den:
Over the Moor to Maggie:
Pinch of Snuff:
Planxty Irwin:
Rakish Paddy:
Rattling Bog:
Red Haired Boy/Little Beggarman:
Rights of Man:
Saddle the Pony:
Sailor's Bonnet:
Sally Gardens:
Scotland the Brave:
Sean Ryan's:
Si Bheag Si Mhor:
Silver Spear:
Skye Boat Song:
Sligo Maid:
Soldiers Joy:
Spanish Lady:
Spider in the Bog:
St Anne's:
St Bernard's Waltz:
Star of Munster:
Statten Island:
Swallows Tail:
Tam Linn:
Tarbolton:
Teetotallers:
The Rose Tree:
Toss the Feathers:
Tripping up the Stairs:
Trumpet Hornpipe (Captain Pugwash):
Turkey in the Straw:
Wise Maid:

And many, many more!....
Call us on
020 7267 7737
or
07906 470991

to book us for Irish or Scottish music in London or the South East.  

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