Banish Misfortune

Concert, session or ceilidh band featuring brilliant musicians & singers, performing Celtic songs & tunes &/or providing lively music & caller for Scottish, Irish, English ceilidh

A performance and ceilidh band featuring brilliant musicians and singers, banish Misfortune are able to perform Celtic songs and tunes and/or provide a rousing foundation to any ceilidh.

Banish Misfortune was started in 2006 by friends who had played together for several years in various musical combinations. Featuring a mixture of guitar, fiddle, bass, whistle, mandolin, piano and sometimes drums, the band has a core membership and some very talented side musicians.

Ensuring a very enjoyable ceilidh, they are a lively dance band with a knowledgeable and inspiring caller, the key to a good evening's dancing.

Banish Misfortune also perform Irish songs and tunes, (their material includes some Scottish and Country music too), in styles ranging from a delicate melody to a storming sound, with excellent singers and trained top line players.

Punctual and professional, and bringing a marvellous atmosphere to any party or gathering, Banish Misfortune are the ideal band to play in a variety of settings: dance hall, garden, living room and ball room.

Repertoire
Some Typical dances (choices depending on whether Scottish, Irish or English)

• Dashing white sergeant
• Gay Gordons
• Strip the Willow
• Eightsome Reel
• Cumberland Sqare Eight
• Seige of Ennis
• Waves of Tory
• Bridge of Athlone
• The Rifleman
• Circassioan Circle
• Circle waltz

Some of the songs

• Star of the County Down
• Rocky Road to Dublin
• Caledonia
• Welcome Wille Stewart
• Fairy Tale of New York
• Irish Rover
• Moondance
• Galway Girl
• Leaving of Liverpool
• Wild Colonial Boy
• Black is the Colour
• Dirty Old Town
• Raglan Road
• McAlpines Fusiliers

We have many more, do ask for requests

Tunes (part of the list)

• Fairy dance
• Masons apron
• Maids of Castlebar
• Lark in the morning
• Drummond Castle
• Flowers of Edinburgh
• East Neuk of Fife
• Wind That Shakes the Barley
• Foxhunters
• Athol Highlanders
• Cape Breton
• Sonny Brogans
• Banish Misfortune (of course!)
• The Kesh
• Tripping Upstairs
• Butterfly set

And many more ...