Little Oak Ceilidh Band

Little Oak is a small but lively folk line-up for your event or ceilidh available for events in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex. Featuring Erin on fiddle and Barry on either piano accordion or piano. A compact but powerful performance ideal for a small family get together or birthday party. The entertainment would include background music and a limited amount of called dances – Erin calls the dances and plays fiddle at the same time! Alternatively, we can arrange an additional friendly patient caller to an event too.

: Little Oak ceilidh – Clopton, Suffolk – Feb 2023

: Little Oak ceilidh – Clopton, Suffolk – Feb 2023

: Little Oak – Thriplow Daffodil Festival – March 2023

As a new, exciting side project to compliment their work with the popular Stumpy Oak ceilidh band, Cambridgeshire residents Erin Brown & Barry Watson offer lively renditions of traditional folk music featuring fiddle, stomp box and accordion (plus appearances from piano, whistles, bodhran, tenor guitar and bouzouki when required). Tunes are taken from England, Ireland, Scotland and further afield, but the accompaniment is typically stompy and English, with the odd syncopated Breton rhythm thrown in for good measure. Traditional songs also a speciality!

Testimonials:

“Dear Barry and the band! Thank you for all your efforts making the ceilidh a success! It was everything we were hoping for and more – your choice of ‘Bonnie at Morn’ for our first dance was perfect and very special – we’ve kept listening to it since! Thank you for accommodating all the dance requests – everyone enjoyed Ninepins and the chaos of strip the willow. My favorite moment was my dad and Wenye’s mum shooting down the line in the last dance faster than anyone else! All the best – hopefully see you at a festival sometime soon.”
Ben & Wenye, wedding ceilidh at Butley Priory, Suffolk (September 2023)

“Having you there made it much more memorable… Everyone loved what you did and you went above and beyond what we asked for. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for making our day so special.”
Paul & Emily, ceremony music and wedding ceilidh in Heybridge, Essex (September 2023)

“Hi Barry, thank you so much – we all had such a fun time last night! Please pass on our thanks again to Erin and Sarah.”
Emily, Brownies summer ceilidh, Stapleford, Cambridgeshire (July 2023)

“Thank you so much for coming last week to Guides, they all really enjoyed it and we’ve had some lovely comments from parents since.”
Jill, Guides ceilidh workshop for Burns night (January 2023)

“Thank you so much. It was a lot of fun and your band was amazing”
Alfie, wedding ceilidh & DIY disco, Ashwell Herts (July 2022)

“I am writing to say how much we all enjoyed your playing on Saturday night. I think it must have been fairly obvious, especially in the freestyling at the end, that we were in our element! The music was wonderful, the calling perfect and your choice of dances spot on. Fantastic, thanks to all three of you! I really hope to have the chance to dance with you again. Many, many thanks.”
Lucy, graduation, birthday & anniversary party, Ashwell, Herts (July 2022)

: Little Oak playing for Irish dancers at Ely Folk Festival – July 2023

: Little Oak playing Irish music at a school fete in Ely Cambridgeshire – July 2023

: Little Oak – Thriplow Daffodil Festival – March 2022

Fiddle and piano accordion line-up
Fiddle and piano line-up

Very grateful for this kind 5-star review from Nishe:

“Little oak are a fantastic band, all the guests absolutely loved them! They had everyone up, dancing and having a great time. We will definitely be hiring them again for more events in future!!” Birthday party in Bishop’s Stortford – September 2021

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