Iron Broo Ceilidh Band

Author: charlieabel

  • New photographs playing Live.

    We had some great photos recently from gifted wedding photographer Janie Barclay. ( see her site http://www.janiebarclay.com ) They were just taken at weddings where we both working. I’ve put some up on our Facebook and will use them on the website and other projects.
    Thanks Janie.

  • Accordion Lessons with SC&T

    This week is the start of the new term for the Scottish Culture and Traditions Adult classes in traditional music and culture. Know locally as SC&T (scat). Tomorrow evening will be the start of the new accordion class for players of all levels wishing to learn or brush up on their accordion skills. I’ll be taking the class 7pm till 9pm at Harlaw academy, Albyn Place, Aberdeen. Places are limited to a maximum size of 16 people so if you are interested contact SC&T direct on their website www.scottishculture.org http://www.scottishculture.org
    If you have any pieces you’d like to learn (meant to be Scottish music but I’m flexible) let me know I’ll do my best to help you.

    If you need a new accordion or for the best hand made Italian instruments, accessories and digital accordions visit accordioncloud.scot. Or check out Ebay or the local papers for a cheapo squeeze box to practice on before shelling out on the best.
    I hope to see you there.
    Charlie

  • What goes up must come down

    Fred and I had a great gig at the weekend at Skene hall. A farewell party for an Aberdeen Lass off to Toronto to seek her fortune across the pond.  It left us on a high for the rest of the weekend but as the rule says, what goes up, must come down and I am suffering the man flu this week.  Michty me. I’m aff ma legs wi it!
        I’ve a sair back, a sair heid and my limbs are aching.  The paperwork is piling up, the accordion is screaming for a tune but the body says nae chunce!
        I think myself lucky I’m nae somebody that gets nae weel too much. It must be that time of year again.  Not to worry, I’ve got the log burner on, a pot o’ broth on the go and a hale box o Lemsips.
    Let the cleansing begin!

  • Happy Easter

    Happy Easter folks. 
    I’ve painted and rolled my eggs, have you? We had fun this afternoon rolling Eggs in the garden with the kids. My Egg won.
    For lunch we had home made Lasagna and chocolate eggs.
    Tonight we are playing for a wedding. It’s been a lovely day. I’m looking forward to a tune and a good ceilidh….

  • Baltic Weather, Photos & Accordion Lessons.

    This cold weather has really been starting to bother me lately. It seems never ending. I can’t wait until our trips abroad over the summer. If the Sun won’t come to Iron Broo then Iron Broo willl come to the Sun! I’m looking forward to Germany, Sicily and Italy later in the year. I was hoping for a chance to go to Canada too but that might have to wait until next year…we’ll see.
    Here’s hoping Scotland gets a summer this year.
    Fred and I are doing a photo shoot tomorrow morning for a publicity spot for a gig Iron Broo are playing at in May. I’ll tell you more about that one shortly. Just so I tell you the correct info.

    Accordion Lessons

    SCAT in Aberdeen will be running an accordion class starting next month. Subject to a to class size of at least 7 pupils attending. I am happy to tell you that I will once again be taking the class after an absence of over 11 years from teaching for SCAT and I am very much looking forward to it.  I think it will be held on a Wednesday night for 6 weeks starting 24th April. 7pm till 9pm with a break for refreshmentssshh…

    The SCAT website, will have the info up there shortly or you can contact them for the details if you want to learn the piano accordion.

  • Lizzie’s Hoose

    Balmoral castle wedding ceilidh

    Balmoral Castle
    It’s been a busy week.  We’ve had a lot of enquiries and have taken 6 more confirmed wedding bookings with some more in the pipeline. Last weekend saw us at Balmoral Castle again. For Gillian and Gary’s wedding. What an evening it was. Good crack and it was nice to see so many kent faces fae Ballater. (Fit like Lisa!) It was a bit difficult to drag some folk away from the bar to begin with but in the end we couldn’t get them to stop dancing. We had to knock back the request for the third encore after 1am because we thought Lizzie might come knocking.
    We made it home safely at around 3am and headed off for a well earned sleep. I managed till about 7am when the kids got up.
    I am considering adding a Forum to the site. Any suggestions?

  • A new beginning…

    Today – It’s a new beginning for Iron Broo. 2013 is going to be a good year for us. We start with our new website. A lot of people commented on how much they liked the last one but I felt I could still improve it as things are changing all the time. So are they way people like to communicate.  I’ve tried to keep up with all these trends and as a result I have integrated some new features to our website. This Blog for example. I’ll try and keep it as up to date as possible and let you in on some of what goes on behind the scenes in a busy ceilidh band. More than you can imagine!

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    In this Blog I’ll keep you informed of what I’m doing to Keep Iron Broo at the Top of their game. We are currently no.1 position on FreeIndex in bands categories based on our customers reviews. We have a lot of competition for the 1st spot!
    There is also now a facility for you to upload files to our site on our clip page.  If you have any pictures or videos you’d like to share with us. Especially if they involve an Iron Broo ceilidh. I’ll need to verify them of course.

    You can follow us on Twitter or on Facebook now as well. The twitter account is me and there is a dedicated page for Iron Broo on Facebook. Please click the like buttons below if you like us. It’s a big help. The site is new and I’ve lost the old likes so we look kind of lonely here now.
    Please feel free to add comments to this Blog. I welcome comments. It will help to keep me motivated to write.