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Shannagh - ceilidh band Superb live music for weddings, private parties and corporate entertainment  
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Superb 3 - 5 piece Irish and folk band. Ideal for ceilidhs, private parties and events requiring something a little different. Lancashire based.
 
Price Guide: £480 +  
 
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This artist is suitable for/as:  
Wedding music, ceilidhs, folk nights, Irish and Scottish dancing plus other events.  

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An Irish ceilidh band with an outstanding reputation. Since their formation in 1995, this North West of England outfit have entertained audiences ancient and modern, swiggers of poteen and porter, sportin' blades and fair maids, ghosts and goblins, priests and poets, rakes and rovers, hurlers and harpists, Nolans and Dolans, O'Connells and O'Donnells, from Clare to Kildare, Longford to Wexford in hotels and theatres, churches and clubs, parlours and pubs. Sure, they never fail to entertain.

The basic line-up, which gives Shannagh their distinctive sound, is fiddle, whistle and piano. For bigger events the trio is augmented with drums and a professional caller organises the dances at weddings and ceilidhs. Shannagh play a mixture of traditional songs, and tunes for listening or for dancing, balanced to suit the occasion.

In 1996 they played the first of many engagements at Manchester's Irish Festival, which included a live radio broadcast for the BBC. The majority of their work is for weddings and corporate functions - playing some of the North-West's finest venues including the Trafford Centre, Wigan Pier, the Reebok Stadium and most of the best hotels in the region.

Shannagh usually play 2 x 45 minute sets and take 30 minute to set-up.
 
     
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Repertoire  
Star of the county down
Dirty old town
Step it out Mary
The lakes of Pontchartrain
Come by the hills
I’ll tell me Ma
Wild rover
Athenry
Whiskey in the jar
Green fields of France
Ride on
Black velvet band
Carrickfergus
Rare old mountain dew
Galway shawl
Danny boy
Raggle taggle gypsy
Irish rover

Tunes:
They have many sets of reels, jigs, slip jigs, polkas, hornpipes, & waltzes.

The caller knows all the popular dances:
Dashing white Sergeant, strip the willow, gay gordons etc

 
 
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