November 14, 2009
We are having a…
Saturday 20th February
All Saints Church Hall, Hessle, Hull
£5 per adult/£12 family ticket. No bar – bring own food and drink/booze. A great ‘knees up’ night out with friends and family, no age restictions you just need two working legs!
Proceeds to local community projects. Please contact us for tickets.
October 21, 2009
Here of some photos (of us on a break between sets) of the lovely day out we all had at Castle Howard’s “Wild About Wood” day run by the Arboretum Trust, Kew.
The weather couldn’t have been better and the turn out was fine. If you haven’t been to Castle Howard, North Yorkshire, it’s a spectacular place to visit. We had a few extra musicians – which was an added bonus as it made the music more varied and the day more brilliant!!
August 14, 2009
St Mary’s High School in Hull had an International Week last term with music, food and culture from all over the world.
We went in with some friends and played some English and Irish music. Liz got the highland pipes out to add a Scottish flavour to the performance. Quite something to hear – and very loud in a school hall!
April 3, 2009
Some of us played for a ceilidh last Friday 27th March, at All Saints Hall in Hessle, raising money for a group visiting the Beamsley Project for disabled people.
There were over 100 people there dancing with callers Steve Haswell and Rob Nicklas, respectively on melodion and guitar/vocals and with Angela on flute playing along with Rob’s vocals.
The stage was full of musicians too - so thanks to Heather, Hannah, Angela, Rob, Steve, Gordon, Jill and Colin for making a good sound (and thanks to Rob also for the PA).
The night raised £350.
A big thank you to all that came, enjoyed and contributed and especially to Anne Wilkinson who organsied it all!
October 19, 2008
A massive thank you to all that came to the ceilidh and merrily danced the night away supporting the charity WaterAid as part of the Big National Ceilidh day event. We all had a fab time and really enjoyed the night!
We had 134 (give or take 1 or 2) people dancing at 10pm to the Circassian Circle dance and the night raised £670 for WaterAid!!! Here are a few photos of the night…
September 13, 2008
This is unashamed advertising for our fund raising community charity ceilidh at
August 22, 2008
Some of us Hull and North Lincs lot did Whitby Folk Festival sessions on Thursday. We got there at about 10.30am and settled down at a cafe at the end of the north cliff area in the town, drank lots of tea, ate some sausage, eggs and beans brunch then played on our instruments.
Made John Kirkpatrick’s session in the Middle Earth Pub early afternoon and the 422 session later in the day at the same pub. Both sessions were different and both great. The pub was full but that didn’t detract from the session – then that’s easy for me to say as I had a seat!
Some of us Hull lot off to Shrewsbury Folk Festival now as I blog – and no doubt will have a good time there.
August 15, 2008
As a ceilidh band we take rehearsing very seriously – unless the weather is nice and there’s a swing ball tournament to be had.
So todays rehearsal went well, got covered what we needed to and then spent the rest of the afternoon in the garden… turns out Liz, the piper, or “Whistling Wainright”, as her Swingball name is, has a killer instinct to win.
“Scrapey Sean” (his Swingball name - it was all getting a bit silly at this point!), the violin player, bore the brunt of Liz’s brutal swingball skills and lost miserably.
However “Mart the Bang”, percussionist, beat “Whistling Wainright” backhand – so she melted into a pile of goo. Losing is not an option for Liz.
Hey ho, a good days work done by all 
July 2, 2008
June 25, 2008
We did a workshop/session on French and early music on Sunday morning at Beverley Folk Festival. We had recorders, accordion, percussion and fiddle with Quentin on gurdy and pipes and me on shawm, we ran through Bear Dance, Branle l’Offical and the old favourite Horses Brawl then we did some French bourrées, a Morvan bourrée and Tricotada.
The session was full and we hopefully passed on some ideas and new tunes to those that went.
To finish with, John aired one of his own compositions (composed in France) and people spontaneously got up to dance – always a sign of a good tune!
