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This is the kind of music we usually play: Click to hear the music, or you if you are considering booking ThingumaJig you can get our free demo CD with 7 varied tracks by E-Mailing us.
Free MP3 Tracks
A couple of complete tracks from the Ceilidh Party album are available for free download
Hornpipe Set, Track 2
ThingumaJigs, Track 7
and 2 tracks from our demo
Salmon Tails, English Polka
Johnny Leary's, Irish Polka
Ceilidh Party CD
Our first full CD is now available! A contemporary collection of
traditional Anglo-Celtic dance music, given the distinctive ThingumaJig makeover. |  |
| "Even if you are among the two-left-feet crowd, you'll enjoy the energy and superb musicianship of this album" - Sing Out! Magazine (USA) - read more reviews here
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- Random Notes 48 bar jigs:-
Random Jig/Shoreham Shuffle (Hill / McClelland)
- Hornpipes 32 bar hornpipes:-
Cronins/The Flowing Tide
- Cock-a-Leekie 32 bar jigs:-
Cock of the North/Glasgow City Police Pipers (Trad / McLeod)
- Wild Mountain Thyme
- The Summer Set 32 bar reels:-
Dorset Four Hand Reel/Jimmy Allen/Salmon Tails up the Water
- Mountain Road 32 bar reels:-
Mountain Road/Cooley's/The Siver Spear
- ThingumaJigs 32 bar jigs:-
Uncle's Jig/The Marlin Jig (Trad / Care)
- Tommy Bhetty's Waltz 16 bar waltzes:- Tommy Bhetty's/The Munster Cloak
- Highlanders 32 bar 4/4 marches:-
42nd Highlander's/No Awa Tae Bide Awa/Rowan Tree/Scotland the Brave
- Over The Hill 32 bar polkas:-
Over the Hills and Far Away/Galopede
- Rocky II 16 bar slip jigs:-
The Rocky Road to Dublin/Another Jig will Do/The Foxhunters Jig
- John Ryan's 32 bar polkas:- John Ryans/Johnny Leary's
- Whiskey in the Jar
- Eightsome 48 bar reels:-
The Trow’s/Miss McLeod/The New Rigged Ship/The Soldier's Joy/Fairy Dance/The Trow’s
This lively set of tunes and songs is taken from ThingumaJig's extensive ceilidh repertoire, and provides a range of different dance rhythms - reel, jig, march, slip-jig, waltz, polka and hornpipe - played on many different instruments - including bagpipes - providing a musical feast for the ears. As a bonus, the insert has instructions for 5 dances to go with the music.
Ceilidh Party CD is available at all our gigs.
Download now from Amazon £6.99
English Traditional Music is the basis of our standard set, but we delve into a bit of Irish, Scottish and American stuff on the way as well.
We are usually willing to learn something new for an event, so if you have a favourite, don't hesitate to ask. For example, we have had a go at both Puccini and Eric Clapton recently with some modest success I might add!
We have a big repertiore, and regularly perform a complete evenings of one style of music and dances - a Scottish Ceilidh, English Barn Dance, Irish Night, or American Square and Line dance, with all your favourite dances and tunes. If you don't have a specific theme, our normal performance draws from all these sources to give you an exiting and varied event.
And another chance to look at the musicians,
David, Pete and Mannie
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Dances we like to call
Ceilidh Dances
Albion Mixer
Ashurst Ramble
Athena Reel
Better than Maypole
Bodmin Riding
Boston Tea Party
Bottoms Up
Bridge of Athlone
Buffalo Girls
Buttered Peas
Caerphilly March
Canadian Barn Dance
Carousel
Cheltenham Flyer
Circassian Circle
Circle Waltz
Cumberland Square Eight
Cornish Six Hand Reel
Dashing White Sargeant
Djatchko Kolo
Dorset Five Hand Reel
Drops of Brandy
Eightsome Reel
Elizabethan Jubilee
Falling Masonry
Farmer's Jig
Flying Scotsman
Foula Reel
Galopede
Gay Gordons
Goathland Square Eight
Hamilton House
Harper's Frolic
I Want to be Near You
Jack the Lad
Keeps
Kerry Square
La Russe
Lucky 7
Military Two Step
Nine Pins
Nottingham Swing
Old Swan Dance
Oxo Reel
Party Dance
Pride of Dingle
Ripple on the Tavy (or Teign)
Rosza
Siege of Ennis
Sir Roger de Coverley
Small Wonder
Snowball
St Bernards Waltz
Stoke Golding
Strip the Willow
Strip the Willow Square
Swedish Masquerade
Tavern in the Town
The Pawnbroker
Twelve Meet
Uncle Jim
Virginia Reel
Walls of Limerick
Willow Tree
Witches Reel
Zetland Circle
Yarmouth Long Dance
Line Dances
Birchwood Stroll
Cowboy Charleston
Cowboy Hustle
Simply Shamrock
Show Dances - Danced by John & Liz Scholey
Electric Reel
Morris Jig
Pot of Gold
Reel & Warriors
Salty Dog
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Music we like to play
Hornpipes
Alexander's/Off to California
Click go the Shears/Trumpet Hornpipe
Cronin's/Flowing Tide
Dance of the Honeybees
Harvest Home/Boys of Blue Hill
Homebrew/Homeruler/Kitty's Wedding
Jigs
I Want to be Near You
Bellingham Boat /Hogmanay Jig
Calliope House/Da Brig/Foula Reel/Glasgow City Police Pipe Band
Cock of the North/Hundred Pipers/Major McKie's
Hamilton House
Michael Turners Jig/Whose Jig
Old Hag you have Killed Me/Shandon Bells
Oyster Girl/Guid Man/Lady in a Boat/Nellie the Elephant
Rogues March
Merri Creek/Uncles/Marlin Jig
Morgan Rattler/The Cream Pot (48)
Seven Stars/Hullichan/Mucking O Geordie's Byre
When Daylight Shines/Shoreham Shuffle
Random/Shoreham Shuffle (48)
Sweets of May/Dingle Regatta (48)
Kathleen Hehir/ Atholl Highlanders (64)
Merrily Kissed the Quaker/Con Cassidy's
Marches
42nd Highlanders/Bonnie Lass of Fyvie/42nd
Mairi's Wedding
Red River Valley/Coming Round the Mountain
Scotland Brave/No Awa Tae Bide Awa/Rowan Tree
Tipperary/Pack up Troubles/Dolly Grey
The Bride's a Bonny Thing
Slieve Aughty /New Caledonia /Thistle of Scotland
Polkas
Buttered Peas/Grandfather's
Chieftains 3 Polkas
Dorset Four Hand/Jimmy Allen/Salmon Tails
I'll Tell me Ma/Rare Bog, Rattling Bog
John Ryan's/Johnny Leary's/Ryans again
Tavern in the Town
La Russe/Jenny Lind
La Schottische/ Fred Pidgeon's
Maguire's Favourite/Maggie in the Wood
Over the Hills/Galopede
Sloe/Bonny Kate
Tip Top Polka/Walter Bulwer2/Walter Bulwer1
Galopede (48)
Silverton Polka
Reels & Rants
Cripple Creek/Old Joe Clark
Dashing White Sargeant/My Love She's but a Lassie Yet
Mountain Road/Cooley's Reel/Silver Spear
Nancy/Girl I Left Behind Me/Rakes of Mallow
Soldier's Joy/Fairy Dance
Trows/Spootiskerry/New Rigged Ship
Whinham's Reel/ The Herd on the Hill /Because He Was a Bonny Lad
Eightsome Set - Trow's Reel/Miss McLeod/New Rigged Ship/Soldier's Joy/Fairy Dance
Speed the Plough
Slip Jigs
Rocky Road/Another Jig/Foxhunter's Jig
Sir Roger de Coverley/Drops of Brandy
Snowy Path/Foxhunter's Jig
Waltzes
Banks and Braes/Tramps and Hawkers
Man in the Moon/Daisy Daisy
Neil's Waltz/Fakenham Fair
Planxty Irwin/Tommy Bhetty's/Munster Cloak
South Wind/Fanny Power
Margaret's Waltz/Dark Island
St Bernard's Waltz
Other Stuff
Sonny's Mazurka Set
Warsoviana (Shoo the Donkey)
Djatchko Kolo (Circle Dance)
Tarantella Napolitana (couple dance)
Laird of Drumblair (Strathspey & Reel)
Orange & Blue/The Smith's A Gallant Fireman (Schottische)
Mudgee Schottische/Rigs of Marlow (Schottische)
Trad Songs
A Man's A Man for A' That
All For Me Grog
Black Velvet Band
Curragh of Kildare
Dirty Old Town
Dundee Weaver
The Fox
Galway Bay
I'll Tell Me Ma
Irish Rover
Johnny Sands/Tenpenny Bit
Leaving of Liverpool
Mairi's Wedding
Murshin Durkin
New York Girls
Nutting Girl
Paddy Lay Back
South Australia
Star of the County Down
Sweet Nightingale
Whiskey in the Jar
Wild Mountain Thyme
Wild Rover
Pogues Covers
Dirty Old Town
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Irish Rover
Fairytale of New York
Sally MacLennane
Streams of Whiskey
Van Morrisson Covers
Brown Eyed Girl
I'll Tell Me Ma
Mairi's Wedding
Star of the County Down
Country Covers
Country Roads
Achy Breaky Heart
Stay Young
You're My Best Friend
Tulsa Time
First Dance Covers
Fly me to the Moon
When You Say Nothing At All
Wonderful Tonight
What a Beautiful Day
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