Your Party

As an experienced band, the Taverners will personalise the music and dancing at your party to maximise the enjoyment of all ages.

· Caller and trad barn/ceilidh dances

As, in part of our other life, we are well known for our barn dances and Irish music, we find that these are a really good way of getting people onto the floor, particularly if they don’t know each other very well. By the way, ceilidh is an Irish word that everybody spells differently, but it usually stands for singing and dancing.

Our caller will call some fairly easy dances and teach people how to do them through a mixture of humour, coercion and dire threats! These will get a bit more complicated as the evening progresses dependant upon the ability of the dancers to cope!

· Line Dances

I’m afraid we don’t specialise in this, but every time we play Ackey Breakey Heart we suddenly find hundreds of people in lines doing their own thing. We also play other country and western songs during the evening so who knows what might happen!

· Strictly Ballroom

There was a time when parties consisted of quicksteps, waltzes, foxtrots, cha cha and other traditional dances – those were the days.. but I digress.

However, we can do all of these styles if necessary and we do often get requests. Again a few included in the overall mixture can be fun and are quite popular with older relatives or those who admit to going to dance evening classes!

· 60/70s hits

The maxim that if you can remember the sixties – you can’t have been there is untrue. We were there and we did play the music at the time it was being written, so there!

We still find that the real hit dances from those times get people onto the floor quicker than anything else, and it does give people the chance to sing along as well.

· Slow romantic songs

We’ve got a large selection, leave them to us!

· Songs and background music

We know that people are not going to want to dance all the time. We also know that people don’t want loud music blaring in their ears while they are trying to catch up on old times. To cater for this, we will play and sing songs in between the dances to keep the momentum of the evening going.

· Disco Music

Sorry, we are a live band, well some of us are. If you want a disco, get a DJ!

Although- our caller does a bit of moonlighting as a DJ and he could end the evening off if would like a last hour of disco style dancing.

· Other needs

We quite often include some quirky dances to end the evening with a bang or even a whimper. Things like – Zorba the Greek, Hokey cokey (God forbid) spring to mind. It will depend on the state of the evening ,,,,, trust our judgement on this.

· Humour

Yes we aim to have fun and we will tell a few jokes, but with a sense of decorum. We promise not to upset anybody, except the person being honoured…….only kidding.

· The band

We only use highly polished and dedicated musicians, all experienced at playing at such functions through years of playing together and copious quantities of drink. Up to date ..ish sound systems enhance the sound and volume to cater for all sizes of dance venues.

· Finally

If you have any other queries don’t hesitate to contact us, however late in the day. If you do book us, we will send you a contract for your assurance and we want you to feel that you can relax for the evening, with all of the entertainment safely in our hands.

For bookings or further enquiries, contact Geoff Goater ON 01444 457531 or email Gsmikey@aol.com