wanted teenage ceilidh band

Subject: wanted teenage ceilidh band
From: GUEST,Milz
Date: 05 Jun 02 - 04:09 PM

13 year old/f/west mids/england. Anyone want to be part of a young exciting ceilidh band! Anyone want a fiddler for a ceilidh band? Please reply!!! :-) milz

Subject: RE: wanted teenage ceilidh band
From: GUEST,milz
Date: 05 Jun 02 - 04:13 PM

do you know of any websites that will tell me more about joining a ceilidh band? :-)

Subject: RE: wanted teenage ceilidh band
From: GUEST,milz
Date: 05 Jun 02 - 04:21 PM

I really wanna b part of a lively young band hu r willing 2 have a laff!!!

Subject: RE: wanted teenage ceilidh band
From: GUEST,Peter from Essex
Date: 05 Jun 02 - 04:28 PM

You don't say what experience you have or what contact you have had with your local folk scene.

Assuming that you haven't had much contact with other musicians then start playing for local morris sides and get along to any session that will let you in.

If you are just the only young musician in the area, which would surprise me as I can think of quite a few second generation folkies in their teens and twenties then get along to a few festivals or a Folkworks summer school.

Subject: RE: wanted teenage ceilidh band
From:
Date: 05 Jun 02 - 05:36 PM

I can't help there, but a group from Cape Breton just put out a recording. The group is called the Cottars. IT consists of two sets of brothers and sisters - Jimmy & Rosemary MacKenzie of Baddeck and Ciaran and Fiona MacGillivray of Marion Bridge. Ciaran and Fiona are the children of famed song-writer Allister MacGillivray.

For details on the group.

The Cottars

Keep up the music.

Subject: RE: wanted teenage ceilidh band
From: GUEST,milz
Date: 06 Jun 02 - 01:30 PM

thanx vry much! the cottars seem vry good! r they @ any festivals this year?

I have had quite a lot of chance at playing for the folk scene. I play for my local border side and i belong to nyfte, (national youth folklore troupe of england) so i am used to playing for all types of english traditional dancing but i would love to belong to a good youth ceilidh band :-)

Thanks again for the suggestions

milz :-)

Subject: RE: wanted teenage ceilidh band
From: MILZ
Date: 06 Jun 02 - 01:43 PM

Please, if you think you know someone who could be interested... i would be vry gr8full!!!

Subject: RE: wanted teenage ceilidh band
From: MILZ
Date: 06 Jun 02 - 01:45 PM

any instruments from melodion to drum kit, i really want to make this fabulous type of music more 'fun 4 teens'

Subject: RE: wanted teenage ceilidh band
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 06 Jun 02 - 02:15 PM

Hi milz. I'm an American, so I'm not much help. BUT if you tell us the town where you live, maybe we can locate some sessions nearby (can 13 year-olds attend pub sessions in Britain?). Good luck!!!

LEJ

Subject: RE: wanted teenage ceilidh band
From: Shonagh
Date: 06 Jun 02 - 02:30 PM

well, i dont no of any people in england, but if u came up to scotland you would find us in our millions!! hehe. noce to see another young one like myself on mudcat!! (im 16) good luck Shonagh

Subject: RE: wanted teenage ceilidh band
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Jun 02 - 02:38 PM

Well, most of the time noone of any age can legally attend pub sessions, because without a Public Entertainment Licence they aren't legal in any case - but we get by, because the law gets ignored a lot of the time.

And the same principle applies for under-age people in pubs, and a lot of landlords are happy to allow sensible young people in, so long as there's no noticeable under-age drinking involved. (Because that really does threaten the licence.) And quite a lot of pubs have family rooms where there are no rules about keeping out people who are too young, and these tend to gte used for sessions often enough.

The advice about getting to festivals to build up contacts and such is good advice. One advantage folk music has over a lot of other types of music is that there isn't too many built-in ageism. People of widely different ages can share the same music and learn from each other.