Shoestring
Music Description: Ceilidh, Pop, Rock
Standard Set Length: Usually 8pm-midnight with 20 minute break
Price Range: from £330 to £770
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Background and Description
ShoeString are a six piece ceilidh and covers band -
comprising of Ian on keyboards, Gillian on fiddle vocals and percussion, Craig on drums/percussion, Laurie rhythm guitar and vocals, and Clark and Ron, alternating between lead guitar /bass guitar and vocals. Formed in 2005, some members of the band have been together, in other guises for more than ten years, leading Ceilidhs, performing at parties, weddings, Hogmanay events, and travelling extensively
in Europe and as far away as Taiwan, playing for the Ballochleam Highland Dancers.
Ron and Clark, call the Ceilidh dances when required and can teach excellent new set dances and reels to your guests, within minutes, at your wedding or party, or for a really special event, we can be accompanied by ex 3 times senior Scottish Highland dancing champion, teacher and professional caller Gillian Whitelaw, who will come along, and call for your Ceilidh.
All members of the band have many years experience in the music world, and the band can switch between Folk music, Ceilidh and Pop with ease. Pop covers range from Beatles to Greenday, Elvis to Snow Patrol. If you have a particular request for your wedding or party, let us know, and we will learn it, if it is not already in our song list.
The band can perform as a ceilidh and covers band, ceilidh only band, a covers only band , providing tasteful background music, or as live music to support the Ballochleam Highland Dancers.
The bands great strength is in the musical diversity. When switching from ceilidh to pop music, you will scarcely believe the same band is still on stage.
Recently the band have performed at weddings in Stirling and Edinburgh Castles. Airth Castle, Melville Castle, and at many top hotels throughout Central Scotland.
ShoeString were the hogmanay ceilidh band at the prestigious Cameron House Hotel Loch Lomond in December 2007. [31/12/07]
The Ballochleam Dancers also appeared on GMTV, broadcast from Cameron house, and at the evening Hogmanay ceilidh.
Powerful PA. Full stage lighting and caller included.
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*Prices (packages)
| Package | Price |
|---|---|
| custom | enquire |
| 4 hours before midnight | £770 |
*Prices (Travel costs)
*Prices given are for rough estimates only.
For accurate prices please
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Set List
Can’t take my eyes of you -Andy Williams•
Amazed -Lonestar•
Just the way you a -Billy Joel•
Dashing white Sgt•
Virginia reel•
Circassian circle•
Gay Gordons•
PA
600w Peavey with black widow Bass and top speakers.for vocals and fiddle.
Each other instrument has individual amplification ranging from 100w to 300w.
200w Peavey individual monitor system
Extras
2 x moonflower,
1x Junior hallucination
1 x inferno
3 x 4 channel gobo
1 x scrollbar
Comments & Feedback
A big thank you from all Ranks at 52 Signal Squadron East Kilbride
We have been running a Burns supper in this TA centre for over forty years now and as would be expected the last one was better than the one before and so on through the years.
Last year we decided to try a different angle to our burns supper so that we could move away from the traditional stag night scenario and try to make our female members and indeed our partners have a night that they could both look forward to and indeed look back and remember what a fantastic event.
Following on from last years absolutely fantastic night we decided to go again with the Ceilidh Band and chose Shoestring again for the second year running.
This was the easiest decision we had to make in the build up to the dinner night in fact several guests from last year had asked for the Band by name.
The band turned up early on the day to set up bang on the arranged time they got there sound checks completed and were away out of our way to enable us to finish setting up.
On the night they were absolutely fantastic as expected and they gave everyone who required it a walk through talk through demonstration of every set before they played.
I will no doubt be in charge of organising next years burns Supper and would have no hesitation in recommending that we again use Shoestring as the Main entertainment for the evening.
In fact we may be organising a St Andrews night later on in the year and if I have my way I will be trying for a Ceilidh band and will be asking for Shoestring.
Regards,
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