Cat’s Claw are arguably South Wales’s hardest-working ceilidh band. An energetic and professional unit with over 20 years’ experience, their unique mix of well-known and more unusual tunes and dances brings new excitement to the ceilidh experience. If you want a foot-stomping, roof-raising, rollicking good time, look no further - acoustic instruments creating an electric atmosphere!

What you get is the six of us for the occasion, including the caller, PA and travelling costs so there are no hidden extras, and our aim is to give you and your guests a good time! The sort of music we play is basically traditional dance tunes from wherever we can get them, though we can focus more individually on Welsh, Scottish, Irish or American music and dances if that’s what people want. Our standard line-up is melodeon, fiddle, flute, guitar and bodhran, and we can offer smaller line ups as well, such as a 4 or 3 piece band and caller. We can be quite flexible really, according to what you want and dependent on your budget, so the minimum price quoted relates to the full band - please give us a call for an exact quote. Of course, each line up gives a slightly different sound and we sometimes use different callers, but the overall 'feel', repertoire and danceability is the same...we like to think so anyway!
If you’d like to book us we can sort out details nearer the time – it’s your event, just tell us what you want from the evening (or afternoon, or morning...). We always arrive in plenty of time to get set up (it only takes about 20 minutes) to start whenever you want, and will play for as long as you like (within reason – if we’re still there at breakfast time there’s a surcharge!).
There’s no set format, or length of time that we play for, and we’ll be as flexible as we can – we just aim to make your event fun. Our callers are very experienced at getting people up to dance, and ensuring that everyone can join in by fitting the dances to the audience’s abilities (or lack of!). It’s good for all ages too, and encourages people to mix. We’ve found over the years that keeping things flexible, rather than saying we’ll play for two sets of (for example) an hour each, works very well - no two evenings are the same, and we’d rather fit in with what you want.