Mount Pleasant

The Moody Food Ceili Band with Sylvia Fisher.

Happy Birthday Wes and well done Helen for organising a fantastic night – the secret email accounts and clandestine phone calls finally paid off. Good to see the Black Dog Molly dancers again. We've played a number of gigs with the Mollys over the years. I think the first time was at the wedding of Annie and Doug, who started it all off, when we were known as Cut-Throat Jake. We also had a display of Appalachian dancing from Mind the Step with music from the Helsby All Stars.

Besides all the dancing we had some great interval music from Josh who played a stonking set on the banjo, Escher's Waltz and Black Jack before getting his Dad up to play bull fiddle on Nine Pound Hammer and Take Me Back To Tunstall.

If you like bluegrass come and see Plucked! at the Coachmaker's Arms in Hanley on the second Wednesday of every month.

Here's a link to some more of Mike's photos of the evening with instructions on how to download them.


The Dances

Happy Birthday Wes
The Cock O' The North / 100 Pipers
The Snowball
Circle Mixer
Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
Drops of Brandy
The Siege of Delhi / The Earl's Chair
Siege of Ennis
Boston Tea Party
Molloy's Favourite / The Foxhunter's Reel / Cooley's Reel
The Willow Tree
Waltz (Midnight On The Water)
Circassian Circle