The WindyMills Ceilidh Band
is one of Northumberland's pre-eminent dance bands, with a large and lively repertoire of Northumbrian hornpipes, Scottish jigs, and Irish reels.
Composed of a mandolin player, a guitarist, a fiddler, and a flautist, and with various professional callers on call, as it were, the band bring an infectious rhythm to their ceilidhs, and guarantee an exciting and stimulating evening's entertainment to all.
But don't take our word for it, why not have a wee listen? It may take a wee while to download, but we guarantee these samplers (circa 200-300kb) are worth a wee wait! Netscape 3.0 uses a Live Audio plug-in to read .aiff files.
Meanwhile, why not take a look at some of our band music?
Each of these gifs should just fit on your screen, if you open the Netscape window as wide as possible. They can be printed as postscript files (about 430kb each) sideways (er, landscape) on a single A4 (8.5 x 11 inch) paper, and are thereby convenient to read from a distance, or through perspiration-obscured eyes!
We, like others, are carefully collating more information on
tunes, compilations, and other folk souces on the WWW, in our handy
file, which we're happy to
open up to
you, though of course we can't guarantee all the links.
We're always interested in sharing band music, in particular of the sort that we like. If you have WWW site access, and can post similar sorts of tunes, we'd happily exchange even more, electronically, via narrow-cast URLs if you prefer. Or drop us a line; we could exchange addresses and share by post, if that's more convenient!
The WindyMills Ceilidh Band are available to travel throughout northern UK, subject to bookings and the covering of travel expenses. Initial booking queries are advisable!
The WindyMills presented a traditional Northumbrian Ceilidh in Dusseldorf the weekend of June 13-15, 1997, and anticipating that many of the calls would be in German, availed themselves of a free web-page translation service from Systransoft, and so are able to present some of the standard instructions to dancers in both English, and German!
Meanwhile, all we can say is: