Blag

Blag play a lively mix of Celtic and World music, from Irish Ballads and Scottish Jigs to Flamenco and Gypsy Jazz. They perform regularly in Britain and in festivals throughout Europe. All the musicians in the group have trained at music college, made records and have performed on both television and radio, including being featured in Loose Ends on Radio 4.

Blag are based in London. The band regularly plays Balls, Weddings, Parties and Corporate Events. Blag also play Barn Dances and Ceilidhs with a dance caller to teach the steps.

David Morgan played acoustic guitar with Golage, in Brighton, which later formed Stomp an extremely successful percussion, performance group that have toured the world, playing on Broadway in New York and the Royal Festival Hall in London. His vast range of techniques, from bluegrass fingerpicking to a driving syncopated Irish rhythm style gives a rich harmony to Blag’s repertoire.

Michael Pinsky started playing the fiddle at six. He has played in folk groups in Scotland from the age of 11 who’s members have become players in leading Scottish bands such a Capercaille and Shoogleniffty and with leading jazz players such a Courtney Pine in the Grand Union Orchestra. His ability to play both folk and jazz creates a unique fiddle style.

Ade Harris was a member of the influential punk group Peter and the Test Tube Babies. His playing provides the power-house behind the Blag sound.

Blag have a repertoire of over fifty songs, including Irish jigs, reels and ballads, other Celtic tunes, Latin American songs, pop covers, flamenco, Eastern European dance tunes, bluegrass, stomp, blues, jazz and swing standards.

Irish and Scottish Classics
Wild Rover
Danny Boy
Rocky Road to Dublin
Whisky in the Jar
Dirty Old Town
Auld Lang Syne
Barn Dance tunes
Dashing White Sergeant
Masons Apron
Drops of Brandy
Irish Merry Making
Athol Highlanders
St PatricksMorrison’s Jig
De’il among the Tailors

Latin and Bluegrass
Oye como va
Bolero
Sweet Georgia Brown
Devil Went Down to Georgia
Dueling banjos

Pop Hits
Eagle Eye Cherry – Save Tonight
Robbie Williams – Millennium
Van Morrison – Moondance
Van Morrison – Sweet Thing
Oasis – Wonderwall
The Doors – People are Strange
Thin Lizzy – Whisky in the Jar
The Waterboys – Fisherman's Blues
The Pogues – Dirty Old Town

and many more.

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