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It's No' Reel Ceilidh Band stands amongst the finest of the UK's professional Scottish ceilidh bands, with 15 years experience of unleashing the best ceilidhs at weddings, parties, and corporate events.
About It's No' Reel: Professional Scottish Ceilidh Band
We're one of the UK's finest professional Scottish ceilidh bands. We've been performing together for over 15 years, bringing our fresh, contemporary ceilidh experience to weddings, parties, celebrations and corporate events throughout the UK and Europe.
Our ceilidhs feature some of Scotland's most renowned folk musicians and a brilliantly fun, energetic caller, a fantastic disco set, lights, and an excellent PA - everything you need for the most memorable night.
We have ceilidh'd at hundreds of events and weddings throughout the UK, from wee village halls to the likes of Hopetoun House, Gleneagles, Cromlix, Cameron House, and Edinburgh Castle. Our ceilidh adventures have taken us to weddings in Italy, Spain, and The French Riviera, too. We also performed at the BBC Scotland Hogmanay Show not so long ago.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
Incredibly professional, young, attractive, friendly, helpful, amazing group who were the talk of our wedding. We just need to have an anniversary party so we can book them again!
The guys in the band were absolutely amazing, they were brilliant in the planning stages and communicating with them was really easy - on the night they were really flexible with any changes that we needed to make to timings. They were just wonderful!
SIMONE & MALCOLM
Wedding
We want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for playing at our wedding. Our guests will not stop talking about how much fun they had dancing. For many, it was the highlight of the wedding. You rocked!
BETH & KLAAS
Wedding
By far the best ceilidh we have ever experienced! The ceilidh was the highlight of the evening. We received a large number of compliments from the guests about the quality of the music. We would thoroughly recommend It's No' Reel to anyone!
ABBEY & BARRY
Wedding
LIBI & JONATHAN
Wedding
OUR CEILIDH PACKAGE
perfect for any weddings, parties, corporate events, student nights or celebrations:
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up to a 4-hour hire (usually 8pm-midnight, with a break or two)
3-, 4- or 5-piece line-ups available:
3-piece: fiddle // keys // drums [with caller]
4-piece: 2 fiddles // keys // drums [with caller]
5-piece: 2 fiddles // keys // drums // bass or guitar [with caller]
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all dances called by a highly experienced caller // DJ set included // all electrical equipment PAT tested // // we bring all PA & lights // includes public liability insurance
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We have been performing together for over 15 years. We have a 100% reliability record: we've never cancelled on a client, nor have we failed to turn up. It's No' Reel is unique amongst most other ceilidh outfits: not only do we perform some of the most toe-tapping music around, we only use professional, conservatoire-trained musicians, so when you book It's No' Reel, you're getting musicians who have played together for years, perform to the highest level, and are guaranteed to put on the most excellent ceilidh performance.
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Click here to see Tom's Blog Post on our different ceilidh band sizes.
WHY IT'S NO' REEL
CEILIDH BAND?
OUR DISCO PACKAGE
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Our disco package is a brilliant way of giving your guests the perfect mix of ceilidh and disco music. We know the DJ part of the evening is as important as the ceilidh, and we use our vast experience to keep the dancefloor full throughout. We'll always ask for requests to give you full input into what is heard. We can also take requests from our huge library of tracks too!
OUR CEILIDH SET
We're very flexible, but this is our normal evening set:
7-8pm: band arrives to set up and soundcheck
8-9.30pm: first dance, into ceilidh set
9.30-10.15pm: buffet break
10.15-11pm: a bit more ceilidh
11pm-midnight: DJ
We often come back and do an Orcadian Strip the Willow and Auld Lang Syne to finish the night, but that's at your discretion. We can also just do ceilidh all-night - it's up to you
These are some of the dances It's No' Reel Ceilidh Band perform (every dance is called):
Gay Gordon's
Military Two-Step
Canadian Barn Dance (trad, agr, prog)
Dashing White Sergeant
Swedish Masquerade
Virginia Reel
Flying Scotsman
The Basket
St Bernard's Waltz
Free Waltz
Circassian Circle
The Riverside
Regular and Orcadian Strip the Willow
OUR CEILIDH DANCES
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