Ceilidh Music, we play and even sometimes write our own ceilidh music. A lot of it is available to download online, in mp3 or or to watch on video such as YouTube. We also have PDF sheet music of some the original compositions from Iron Broo.
We are beyond excited to share some amazing news with you all - Iron Broo Ceilidh Band are wedding ceilidh band winners at the prestigious Hitched Wedding Vendor Award for the second year running! We couldn't have done it without your incredible support, so a massive thank you from all of us! To our awesome...
A Heartfelt Thank You from Iron Broo Ceilidh Band for Attending our Christmas Ceilidh on December 23rd, 2023! Dear friends, dancers, and music lovers, we, the Iron Broo Ceilidh Band, want to extend our deepest gratitude to all of you who joined us at our Christmas Ceilidh on December 23rd, 2023. It was a truly...
Hi folks, back in 2007 Iron Broo recorded a Live ceilidh band album. We did this on our own at the Moray Ceilidh Club on 21st April 2007. We knew we would get a good audience there as the ceilidh club was full of enthusiastic dancers and we had played there many times. The club...
Well folks, time is fair marching on, and we have the ceilidh lockdown blues. The lockdown is starting to drag now. We have not played a ceilidh gig since the 14th March. The fingers are itchy, and the band are getting restless. It may be some time before we are allowed loose on the ceilidh dancers and audience. I know many dancers feel the same way we do too. The only way we can get a tune together is online. We did have a small meet up for my birthday but with numbers restricted to five households. Now it's only two households and a maximum of six people. No use for a session. Even as a ceilidh duo, how can you play the ceilidh lockdown blues without dancers?
I've written another 2 new tunes. Check out my new video editing technique on March o' the Scottish Samurai.
Sarah, is a waltz tune written by the famous Scottish accordion player, Max Houliston. Max is credited with being the first founder of an Accordion and Fiddle Club in Scotland. In 1965 he opened one in his own licensed premises, The hole in the wa', in Dumfries.
I first heard this tune played about twenty years ago in the Dee Motel in Aberdeen. It was where the Aberdeen Accordion and Fiddle Club used to meet.
Aye, we are still in lockdown, and the summer holidays are likely to be cancelled for all of us. But that doesn't mean we canna dream.
A wee bit of a laugh during the epidemic of Bogroll (toilet paper) panic buying which appears to be sweeping the western world driving lots of people crazy. I don't understand it and don't want to. I came across this tune called "The Smell of the Bog" and liked the title so I learned it for this moment in time to commemorate the occasion. This tune is an Irish traditional one I understand. It would be a hornpipe though I like it a wee bit faster. And the Bog might refer to the toilet or the peat bog. The lovely accordion is a Saltarelle Clifden.
https://youtu.be/dgZlpJkUgBE 'Up the Noran Water', it's a song I heard first from the late Jim Reid. He had put the melody to the words of a poem written many years earlier by Helen Cruickshank (1886-1975). The poem was called 'Shy Geordie' and features a young Angus mother who is pregnant out of wedlock. It was...
