Reviews of Craigi Ceilidh Band

Thank you for a fantastic evening last night. Our Burns celebration was an absolute sensation, in no small part down to Craigi. Stuart, Many thanks for advising me while I was working out how to run a Burns supper and what we needed in terms of the band and space for dancing!
Sarah-Jane,Thank you for facilitating the introduction

Thank you for your amazing performance at our wedding, it really made it special and I know everyone enjoyed it. We have so many great photos of guests smiling, spinning and skipping thanks to you!

I just wanted to say thank you to you and the band for playing at our wedding.
You guys were fab! Everyone loved it, it was such a great way to get people dancing.
I thought your caller was great, she explained things very well.

Stuart, thank you for a sterling evening on Saturday - everyone had a great time as was witnessed by the amount of dancing (despite the age of some of the participants.  Thank you very much for supporting us and doing the Address to the Haggis as well as the Selkirk Grace - it is very much appreciated (especially as you have such a passionate delivery of the words).  Thanks go to Jill as well as she is the perfect caller for a group like ours where many are novices and the rest of us forget the steps from one year to the next. I'm sorry I didn't catch the name of your keyboard player, but she is to be commended too as you 3 make an extremely professional team.

It was a truly cracking evening last night - many folk reckon that it was the best one ever.
Please pass on thanks to the team - we had such a great time. Just slightly sore feet, today!

Thank you all so much for playing for our son’s wedding -  we have received so many complements on your playing and Jill’s calling. Even people who did not want to take part in the dancing said that they so enjoyed watching and listening to the music. Basically you wore most people out and they definitely faded when the disco came on, but we soldiered on until midnight!

The event was a huge success, the band arrived in plenty of time to set up and entertained early guests with background music before the main event. They managed to get all our guests up and dancing - I have never been to a dance where the men had to dance together - but they were all so keen to join in. I would have no hesitation to book through LMM again, and Craigi Ceilidh band would be my first choice.

A huge thankyou to Alistair and his fellow musicians who played at our party on Saturday. The music and combination of dances was perfect and we had many comments on your patience with our lack of prowess on the dance floor! 
A great band makes the evening and you certainly did that for us. We all enjoyed it enormously and many of the thankyou letters we have received said what a superb band you were.
All we need now is an excuse to ask you back again !

Our family just wanted to thank you and the band who played at Lindsay's wedding on Saturday night.Everyone enjoyed themselves thoroughly, and the ceilidh was a perfect way of mixing the London youngsters with scots and Irish families.Your wife was very helpful in keeping things under control, especially at the end when the Barbican were initially reluctant to allow the power back on when the noise limiter was triggered.My cousin has already booked you for a birthday bash next June in the Wheatsheaf, so we look forward to get into training for another reeling occasion!

Thank you all very much for coming to play at The Royal Thames last evening – the music was excellent – as was the address and grace – thank you Stuart for helping us out on that too!  And Jill you were amazing to keep control of such an unruly bunch – the older ones as well as the young – and stop it descending into chaos!!  Everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves and it made a very happy evening with families and age groups.  I think certain people may find it difficult to get up for work this morning!

Thank you so much for an incredible ceilidh – it brought all of the cultures, ages and dance abilities together and everyone is still commenting on how great you all were! We ourselves had an amazing night dancing away, so a huge thank you for the perfect ending to a wonderful day! We wish you the best in the future (and shall be recommending you to everybody!)

Just wanted to say a massive Thank you for our performance yesterday - we have had wonderful feedback from everyone so will definitely be booking with you in the new year!!

Just a note to thank you so much for last Saturday. You and the band were superb! You played with such energy which got everyone including the reluctant ones onto the floor. Your caller was lovely and very good humoured and patient with us which made a big difference too. I will send over some snaps including of you addressing the haggis, which I hope you will be able to use.
We’ve had brilliant feedback and made over £3,700 towards our fund …... which exceeded our expectations! Very many thanks.

The Craigi Ceilidh band were excellent. Perfect for my 60th birthday party with all levels of experience and agility catered for.

The caller and band made the whole event run smoothly and all the guests commented on how much they enjoyed the evening.

Booking the band proved to be a very straightforward exercise with good communication before the event from both the band and Last Minute Musicians.

Just a quick one, to say thank you very much for Saturday evening.

Everyone that I have spoken to has had nothing but praise for the band.

The music and caller were fantastic and really made the evening a success.

We haven’t a final figure raised for charity to date, however I am sure that it will be a nice sum to pass on.

Craig and I wanted to say a huge thank you to you and the rest of the band for playing at our wedding last weekend. The ceilidh went better than we could have hoped for and we have had so many comments from our family and friends saying how much they enjoyed it! We really appreciated all the patient instructions, (especially as most of us weren't familiar with the dances!) and thank you for accommodating all of our guests so everyone could join in. We also realise that our timings for the evening went a bit awry as the meal went on longer than planned, so we are really grateful to you for being so flexible and playing until later than planned. 

The ceilidh really was the perfect end to our wedding day so thank you for making it such a success!

Charlotte and I just wanted to say a big thank you to your band for Saturday night! They brought so much fun and energy to the party. Your accordion player was a brilliant addition to the 12 Days of Christmas song and it made the perfect transition from dinner into the reeling. It was the first time I've seen reeling before and it looked like so much fun, I wanted to join in!
Please pass on our thanks to your team. I appreciate it was a difficult set up with the two rooms and only having speakers in one room, but they made it work really well, so thank you for being flexible.
Hope you all have a great Christmas and I will definitely recommend you to future clients who would like reeling at their wedding or party

A huge thank you to you and the rest of your band for your wonderful performance on Saturday.  The compliments have been flying in and the atmosphere was excellent.  I hope you got the same sense of satisfaction that I did from seeing so many people, both young and not so young, having a really enjoyable time.

Thank you all so much for a fantastic ceilidh on Saturday night at our wedding. It was brilliant and so much fun. Everyone loved it. Thank you too for letting us play our music on your speakers in the break and after. The lady who was the caller was great, really clear with her instructions and commanded everyone so well, thank you v much.
It was an amazing wedding day - literally the best day of our lives. So thank you for contributing and making it so special. We loved the ceilidh and your music, just wonderful
Will highly recommend you to anyone who wants a ceilidh!

Thank you so much for playing and calling so brilliantly last night.  You really made the party go with a swing and I’ve had lots of requests to do it again!

Just a quick note to say thank you so much for playing so brilliantly at the event on Saturday. There has been lots of positive feedback from the event, and we really hope that you will be able to play for us again next year.
Thank you especially for managing to get through the programme in such limited time, to make the evening stress free for all of us!

On behalf of all of us at Surbiton, I just wanted to say a huge thank you again for coming to play for us last night.  It was wonderful to have such accomplished, experienced musicians playing great tunes for us to dance to - a real treat.  I've had a lot of comments from people saying how good it was which I wanted to pass on, and I hope you can come and play for us again at one of our events when we are back up to full strength numbers.

The Craigi Ceilidh band were excellent. Perfect for my 60th birthday party with all levels of experience and agility catered for.
The caller and band made the whole event run smoothly and all the guests commented on how much they enjoyed the evening.
Booking the band proved to be a very straightforward exercise with good communication before the event from both the band and Last Minute Musicians.
Thank you

Fantastic evening and I’ll certainly be using you again for any future events

We were looking for a Ceilidh Band for our wedding reception and we were thrilled to find Craigi! They were flexible responding to our requests when organising the event and wore traditional Scottish dress! They were very knowledgeable and talented musicians. We had lots of positive feedback from our guests! With clear instructions from the caller everyone picked up on the moves and were willing to join in! We had a wonderful time and we would like to thank the whole band for their part in making our night special! We highly recommend!

We really enjoyed the music and the dancing - Stuart, Anne and Jill were great!

It was a great night, fullstop.

I am sure you will be pleased to hear that we raised just over £4000 this year and were able to send cheques for £2000 each to both the Air Ambulance and Shipston Home Nursing. A good result.We have now also decided on next year’s date and really hope you will be able to play for us again. It is Saturday 7th April 2018. It really makes a difference having you there.

I must start by saying that both my sister and I realised we failed to formally thank you and your wonderful band for a perfect night last weekend. We both regret this enormously and I only hope you could see through the night what a perfect contribution your band made to it
We have had lovely feedback from guests and the staff at the venue said it was one of the best party's they had ever hosted. There is no doubt that a big reason for this was down to Craigi. The music was great. Everything we had hoped and more.
Please pass on my thanks to your excellent band members and of course special thanks to you. It was lovely to have you all there from the start and your playing really added to the happy atmosphere.
I truly thank you from the bottom of my heart and hope very much that I will get to dance to your music again soon.

Thank you for a really special evening last night at Quainton. We have had many compliments on the venue, the dancing and especially the music

Very many thanks for your excellent playing on Saturday night. Everyone appreciated it and it made sure we all enjoying the evening.
Thank you too for the CDs. I will have my first taste of listening this evening on a long drive I need to do – it will be good to be transported into that marvellous music.
Please pass on our thanks to the other band members – but it was your fiddling that made all the difference.

Thank you and the band for great music which made the whole evening quite special. All the ages enjoyed themselves and in particular the younger people who had never attended a ceilidh before and had such a good evening. So many people commented on what an inclusive evening it was for all ages. Lots of great memories

The event was a huge success, the band arrived in plenty of time to set up and entertained early guests with background music before the main event. They managed to get all our guests up and dancing - I have never been to a dance where the men had to dance together - but they were all so keen to join in. I would have no hesitation to book through LMM again, and Craigi Ceilidh band would be my first choice.

Thanking you again for the wonderful performance last month at the Pipeband hall, it was a pleasure having and meeting you all.
Hope you had a safe journey home.
We just got finished up for the season last Wednesday night so feet up this month and get ready for the practices again.

Just a note to thank you and the band so much for your contribution to the success of Saturday night’s Barn Dance.
The music was fantastic, and I felt the calling gave us just the right amount of detail without holding back those who were itching to get on with the dancing.
Loads of people said to me just how much they’d enjoyed the music. I do hope they passed their appreciation on to you too.
And I hope that you were pleased by the enthusiasm with which people threw themselves into dancing.
So, many thanks once again.

I booked Craigi Ceilidh Band through Last Minute Musicians for a barn dance for my 25 year old son. The booking was completed very easily, and I was kept informed at all times.

The event was a huge success, the band arrived in plenty of time to set up and entertained early guests with background music before the main event. They managed to get all our guests up and dancing - I have never been to a dance where the men had to dance together - but they were all so keen to join in. I would have no hesitation to book through LMM again, and Craigie Ceilidh band would be my first choice.

Great music, thank you! Everyone enjoyed them very much.

I just wanted to say thank you for Friday night, Louise (and everyone) had a great time the band were great and Jill gauged it just right in terms of the breaks etc

Thank you for another brilliant evening of music on Saturday…I’ve had lots of great feedback. Everyone seemed to really enjoy it. The music was yet again first class.

It was great to see you and the band at Radley last week, and can I just say once again how much I enjoyed your music that evening. I've danced to your band a number of times but never have I heard such great tunes

Very many thanks to your lovely band who played at my party on Saturday night - we all had a great time and the band sounded wonderful. Could you also thank the caller (I'm terribly sorry I can't remember her name) who coped with a tough crowd admirably - she had to deal with folk who knew very well what they were doing, complete novices and everything in between, along with some wee ones. She did a grand job, thank you.

We just wanted to extend our thanks again to you all- we loved seeing everyone up giving the Ceilidh a go on the night as well as taking part ourselves! Thank you for making it a great evening. The band was great, the caller was patient with us all!

I just wanted to say thank you to you and the band for playing at our wedding.
You guys were fab! Everyone loved it, it was such a great way to get people dancing.
I thought your caller was great, she explained things very well.

What a treat it was last night to have you playing for us. Your choice of music was delightful and, of course, so beautifully played. I hope you could feel the appreciation from our guests. The dancing went very well considering the large numbers of non-members attending; what they lacked in expertise, they more than made up for in enthusiasm.
We hope that you too enjoyed your evening; we certainly did.
Thank you so much for your considerable contribution to the success of our evening (and the piper said you were great company!).

We owe you and the band a very big thank you for playing for us on Saturday. Your efforts were hugely appreciated and so many of the guests came up to me to say what an excellent band you are and how they enjoyed dancing to your music. You made my evening very easy taking over the timings and announcements, and yourchoice of music was very popular. Thank you again for giving us such a memorable evening of dancing in a really rather splendid venue!

The Craigie Ceilidh Band were absolutely fantastic and made our special day that little bit more special. It was wonderful to see so many people, both young and old, taking part and really enjoying themselves. I would thoroughly recommend them for any event and would certainly look to hire them again for parties and events in the future.

Quick note to say a massive thank you for Saturday night in Northleach.
After a slow start - I think there was a mixture of nervousness and a warm evening outside! - everyone had a fantastic time. I've had so many people saying that it's either been ages since they went to a Ceilidh or had never ceilidh'd before and they loved it. Lots of people passing on thanks to you and the band too - excellent stuff as usual. The caller (who's name I didn't catch) has been singled out for her patience!
Another Ceilidh is definitely on the cards, though perhaps this time in the winter - I don't think I've sweated that much for years!

The band on the night were excellent and catered to all our last minute adjustments. The caller was supurb at knowing when people needed more instruction and when they were just best left to their own devices!

You were brilliant as a band! I went reeling last night again and they were not a patch on you, I'll be in touch about dates for next year. Once again thank you so much!

Many thanks indeed for you and your team's efforts on Friday evening. It was an extremely enjoyable night and you guys were fantastic. I will be sure to recommend you in the future.

Thank you so much for providing the very excellent music and superb instructions at our wedding party. Many of our guests remarked how much they enjoyed the ceilidh and what fun it all was. The combination of Scottish and tango worked even better than we could have imagined.

Just a quick, and rather late, note to say a very Big Thank You to you and the team for the wonderful Saturday evening that you provided. We had an absolutely amazing time, and lots of the guests have said that they did too. We were really delighted to see so many people dancing, I don't think that anyone was able to restrain themselves. It was just a pity that the whole evening had to come to an end.