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Biography
Hi & Welcome to our website J
We are the Rosely Ceilidh Band and we all originate from the County of Angus, Scotland.
Our band consists of a trio of young musicians:
Allan Smeaton (17) - Accordion & Midi, Allan will also walk you through any dances that you may not be sure of and will give you the names of any tunes you may like.
Lisa Laird (20) - Accordion & Midi
Alisha Smeaton (18) - Drums and Percussion
Although we are quite a young ceilidh band we have some great talent and have over four years experience within the music industry already.
We have been over to France several times now with the Gordon School of Dancing from Montrose, and keep getting asked back to play with them, which is great.
We have also been at a few local Accordion Clubs as guest artists, including Forfar, Montrose, Arbroath, Ladybank, Glenrothes, Windygates, Banchory, Aberdeen, Cults, Turriff, Banff and Dunfermline. We are heading to the Blairgowrie Accordion Club in July 2010 and heading back to the Aberdeen one in April 2011 aswell. Here is a couple of pictures of us guesting at the Windygates & Forfar Clubs:
 
In June 2007 we were one of many guest artists at Keith Festival and had a marvellous response from the public and we were delighted to accept their invitation for us to play for them as guests again in June 2008! On our first visit up to Keith in 2005, we were asked to come down to Keith Community Radio Station and do a short half an hour recording piece for them to air on the radio that day. Here a picture of us in action at Keith Comunity Radio:
We have done a few guest spots at Angus Accordion & Fiddle Festival over the years n 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009 as part of Steven Carcary's Young Accordionists and more recently in our own right as the Rosely Ceilidh Band.
We had our first experience of the Shetland Accordion and Fiddle Festival in October 2008 and as expected it was an absolutely amazing weekend. We just went up on our own accord to establish ourselves as a band and have a few pub sessions on the way and were delighted to get asked to play as the guest band for a dance at the Festival in 2009, unfortunately we had to turn it down as some of the band are on holiday in October 2009, but we must have shown great potential as a band up there which is great. We are venturing up to Shetland again in October 2010.
We can cater for most kinds of functions including:
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Birthday Parties
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Weddings
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Dances
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Dinner-Dances
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Concerts and Shows
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Ceilidhs
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Accordion Clubs
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Background Music...
...Whatever the occasion, please don't hesitate to get in contact with us and i'm sure we will be able to provide you with some great entertainment.
  
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Keith Festival 2010 »
The Rosely Ceilidh Band have been guests for a few years at Keith Festival now but we are just going up on our on own accord this year and it will be running from the 11th - 14th of June 2010.
Falkland Festival 2010 »
The Falkland Festival will be on from 18th - 27th June 2010. The Rosely Ceilidh Band will be going there as guests this year at the family ceilidh on Sunday 27th June.
Angus Festival 2010 »
We are playing at Angus Festival this year on the 2nd, 3rd & 4th of July 2010 as part of Steven Carcary's Young Accordionsts on the Friday night and The Rosely Ceilidh Band on the Sunday night.
Auchtermuchty Festival 2010 »
We were guests at the Auchtermuchty Festival last year on the Saturday night. This year the festival will run from 13th - 15th August 2010.
Kirriemuir Festival 2010 »
We made our debut at the Kirriemuir Festival last year and it be running again this year from the 3rd - 5th September 2010.
Shetland Festival 2010 »
We made our debut at Shetland Festival in 2008 and got asked to be guests last year, unfortunately we couldn't make it as some of the band members have other commitments. We will be going up again this year and this Festival is from the 7th - 11th October 2010.
Next Gig »
Our next gig is on Saturday the 5th of June 2010 in Memus Village Hall.
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