Ceilidh musicians/caller wanted!

[djoptix]

Surely this has to be the longest of long shots posting this on Musicradar, inhabited as it is by electric players mainly, but I'd love to be proved wrong...

I'm tentatively looking for some musicians to form a wedding ceilidh band in Bristol. I've been playing in my current ceilidh band for about 15 years so this isn't just a whim, I will have paid gigs waiting. No need for transport (providing you can get to rehearsals/my house on gig day), charts or PA, I have all that. However, anyone involved with the top line does need to be able to read music, or have a phenomenal memory, since I'm looking at a reasonably-sized repertoire.

Music will be something like 50% Irish, 30% Scottish, 10% American/cajun, and 10% random Jewish/E. European/Swedish/whatever.

I play guitar and bass depending on what's required and quite fancy branching out into mandola and cittern too, so I'm really looking for...

• Fiddle/viola (if you can play both, so much the better)
  Accordion (ideally) or keys (mainly to play accordion parts, some piano for the Scottish stuff)
  Flute/piccolo/pipes
  Drums + bhodran
  Caller

If you play one of the above and call, that would certainly help. I'd be looking to record 10 or so tracks straight away, practice a bit over summer and start gigging properly next year (people have already booked their weddings for this year). I will be financing all the recording and promotion. I'd be confident that we will all take home around £100 per gig, not a cash cow, I know, but ceilidhs are a lot of fun and low pressure. Oh, and you WON'T have to do any dancing. Ever. If you were wondering. (unless you want to)

Professional attitude and sense of humour essential! PM me if interested.

[Vim Fuego]

good luck with that. Just a suggestion but it may be worth posting an ad here:

http://www.ukbluegrass.com/forum/

though it's bluegrass, a lot of the guys there play all sorts of folk/acoustic stuff and may be able to put you in touch with people etc.

[DelPreston]

If that were in Norwich, I'd be all over it - played acoustic guitar in one when i was in my early twenties, great fun and excellent money!