Highly Recommended Based in Cheshire but travels UK wide
Professional male lead 4-piece Irish band playing a lively range of traditional & contemporary Irish, Scottish or English songs & tunes plus Celtic & Country Rock. Full PA supplied. Full Ceilidh with caller if required. Great for parties & celebrations! Prices: From £672 + for local gigs
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Line up: 4 piece band: singer/guitarist, flautist, mandolin, banjo
Connery are all professional musicians who came together 5 years ago from a mixture of academic formal semi-pro and session music backgrounds to form one of the most vibrant and lively bands on the Irish music scene today.
Connery also specialise in Ceilidh's and use excellent Callers for all types of Ceilidh whether you want yours to have an Irish Scottish or English flavour! Connery also have a top quality and self-contained Dynacord PA and Bose speaker system.
Joanne is a professional musician who has played the flute from the age of 7 has a formal music education and also plays saxophone and keyboards. Joanne’s favourite instruments are a silver Flute and a Rudell Carte wooden flute on which she can play virtually any style of music ranging from Irish through Country to Rock and Roll!
Ken is a self taught professional musician who started playing flamenco style at the age of 18 and later graduated to Mandolin, Mandola and Banjo as he became interested in Traditional Irish music. He has played as a session musician and with various Irish and Folk bands and has a unique Mandolin style. He plays a Sobell Mandolin, one of the best acoustic instruments around and a Ryder 4 string electric mandolin.
Alan is a professional musician who can play various instruments from guitar to keyboards. He has played with several bands ranging from Folk Rock to a top flight Ceili Band. He currently features in Connery on a Deering electric Banjo and a Sobell Bouzuki He is an accomplished tunesmith and his knowledge of Irish tunes is unsurpassed.
Barrie sings and plays a Loud-One (Louden) Guitar. He is a professional musician and has played on the folk and country scene for many years and and is acknowledged as having one of the greatest and varied repartees in the business.
Connery's Set List / Repertoire
SONG SELECTION St. Brendan Lark in the Morning Mountain Dew Murshien Durkin Mc Alpines Fusiliers JCB song Black Velvet Band Seven Drunken Nights Paddy on the Railway Whisky in the Jar Rarest Flowers Streets of Dublin Rocky Rd to Dublin Nobbys Steamboat Sally McLennane I Useta Luv Her Four Roads Whisky you’re the Devil South Australia Irish Rover Rose of Allendale Fields of Athanry Galway Shawl Galway Girls Donegal Danny Wild Rover Craic was Mighty in Isle of Man Shamrock Shore The Maro Liverpool Lou Fairytale of New York Dark Streets of London Red Rose Café Hills of Donegal Back to Tuam FCA Lukeys Boat Thousands are Sailing Streams of Whiskey Grace Jock Stuart Rattlin’ Roarin Willie Nancy Whisky Rose of Allandale Flower o’ Scotland Wild Mountain Thyme Mingalay Boat song Northern Lights of Aberdeen
TUNES SELECTION Ms Sullivan’s Calliope Ho Going to the well for water Scottish Kerry Slide Scattery Island Fairy Reel Silver Spire Tamlyn Silver Spear Merry Blacksmith Sportskerry Parnell’s march Yellow Wattle Eddy Kelly Peter St Golden Keyboard Rose in Heather Aaron’s Key O Dea's Macs Fancy Mist Covered Mountain Geese in Bog Cottage in the Grove Sean Ryan’s Walter Sammonds Concertina Reel Wild Irishman Lark in the Morning Jig of Slurrs Athol Highlanders Foxhunters Another jig will do Sally Lennons set Sailing into Walpole Marsh Wheels of World Julia Delaney Ill buy Boots for Maggie O Connors Johnny I Do miss you Tom Busby's James Byrne’s Four Posts of the Bed Simons jig Liverpool Jig Copperplate old/new (reels) Tuesday Afternoon Twelve Pins Kesh jig Behind the Haystack Blarney Pilgrim Close to Floor Girls of Bainbridge Boil the Breakfast Early Margaret’s waltz Cathleen O Heirs Paddy O Rafferty's Humours of Clonmult Rev Brothers jig Congress reel Eel in the Sink Mullingar Races Maids of Mt Kisko Paddy goes to Glasgow Sweeney’s Buttermilk Monahan Twig Boil the Breakfast Early Jenny’s wedding Toss the Feathers Dobermans wallet setm Blast of wind
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Customer reviews for Connery
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23/10/2012 Connery
"Connery were great!"
Customer review by Brian Leighfield
07/06/2012 Connery
"Booking through Alive Network is easy and straightforward. Connery were friendly and the performance was excellent, just what we wanted."
Customer review by Matt Edmondson
03/01/2012 Connery
"Hello Rebecca.
Just a short and belated email to thank you for arranging our booking Connery for my daughter's second wedding celebration on the 29th December. All went well and a good time was had by all. The band, Connery were excellent and ideal for the occasion: not just a good band for dancing (and listening) but extremely good at explaining dances to those guests who had never set foot in a ceilidh before.
Thank you.
Regards
David (Edwards)
"
Customer review by David Edwards
05/12/2011 Connery
"Everyone had a great night, brilliant set list, good musicians and a great caller. A band full of character, thank you for an evening to remember."
Customer review by Helen Holding
02/08/2010 Connery
"When I booked through alive network i had no concerns as I could see how professional and easy it was to make a booking.
Connery were fabulous, the band were very professional and the music was well played and songs they sang were exactly what I knew the guests would enjoy. Joanne who played the flute was amazing, I had lots of people say she was the best they had ever heard!!
I would highly recommend the band for any occasion. I will certainly use them again if any occasions arise. I have a list of people wanting to buy their cd.. all my guests gave them fantastic praise - well done !
"
Customer review by June
04/01/2010 Connery
"Connery were friendly, well presented and very entertaining, our guests had a great time!
A good efficient service that provided a great performance at our wedding!"
Customer review by Nicky Parkes
15/12/2009 Connery
"Dear Ken,
Just a quick email to once again say thank you for your services at our wedding reception last night. Myself and my wife were delighted and we really had a good night- thank you. Given the somewhat limited space we had to work with I think you and your team managed to fill the floor with a good bunch of enthusiastic participants and it definately helped make our wedding day. Thank you once again and merry Christmas and happy new year to you and the members of the band.
Kind regards and festive best wishes, Nigel and Sarah
Brilliant, thank you so very much to you and the band. Everyone, I mean everyone, said how much they enjoyed it and it was a memorable night that they say they will not forget. Happy New Year to you and all
Take Care
David
"
Customer review by David
14/12/2009 Connery
"Hi Ken,
Just wanted to drop you a quick line to say thank you so much for your services at our Winter Ball, it was really amazing and everyone really enjoyed themselves.
Here are some comments from our participants who attended:
Hi Faye, apologies for the delay, but better late than never. Just wanna say thanks for getting everythin with the ball organised. We had an awesome nite. Not really sure who else organised it and who I need to thank, but I know you were involved so thought would drop you a quick email.
If you let me know who else I can pass on my regards as well. Roll on the next one! Cheers, Jake
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Hi Faye - Thanks again for the wonderful ball. It was so much fun - really really enjoyed it (although should probably have drunk a little less!)
Lots of love, Naomi
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Thanks again for a great night Faye. The ceilidh was a stroke of genius! See you soon, Sarah
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Kind regards, Fay
"
Customer review by Naomi
29/10/2009 Connery
"I'd just like to thank Alive Network and Connery on behalf of Balfour Beatty and myself for a wonderful time on Saturday.
I think I only missed one dance!
Everyone I've spoken to thinks you're fantastic and I'd certainly use you again and recommend you to others. Your music, calling and general banter was second to none.
As I said on Saturday, we can be a bit slow at getting started and I think for the novices it was a bit daunting but once up and you're hooked! You managed to get more people on the dance floor on Saturday than anyone else in the last three years put together so well done!
Hope to see you again next year!!
"
Customer review by Donna Hudson
25/08/2009 Connery
"Hi Ken
Angie & Dave have just got back from their honeymoon and we saw them this weekend.
They had a brilliant wedding and really enjoyed the ceili dancing - we even got a bit of it on video!
They both send their many thanks to you, especially as so many other guests also said how much they enjoyed the whole experiece, particularly as they didn't know they could dance!
We trust that you all had enough to eat and drink on the night and many thanks again.
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