Video of Scottish Ceilidh Band The Jiggers
This is the latest video of the Jiggers Ceilidh Band (based in Glasgow/Edinburgh area). For more information, please visit www.thejiggers.co.uk or call 0141 419 9558.
Archive for the ‘Events’ Category
Jan 12th 2012
May 10th 2010
Venue Review: House For An Art Lover, Glasgow
A popular wedding venue where the Jiggers are regularly invited to play is Glasgow's House For An Art Lover in Bellahouston park. (It's just round the corner from where the Jiggers are based, which is nice!). This is the venue of choice for lovers of Charles Rennie Mackintosh art and architecture.
The venue has an upstairs section for the reception ceremony and meal, with the downstairs "Art Lover's Cafe" which is a kind of mini-gallery that transforms into the gathering place for the evening ceilidh.
We often provide clients with music for the full day there, and were performing there again at the weekend. A popular choice is our bigdaymusic Wedding Silver Music Package, which includes a piper for welcoming guests (handy, if you're lost in the park and can't find the venue) and our jazz pianist usually tickles the ivories on the venue's baby grand piano during the meal. We also supply our string quartet for e.g. the drinks reception or the ceremony which can be held in the venue too.
Clients often ask what size of band is suitable for the House for an Art Lover…We usually suggest 3 piece or 4 at a push. 5 would be tight, especially if it was a full function band with backline. You can see the relatively small stage setup of the 3 piece Jiggers band, including DJ & lights, in the picture below. Including lights with the entertainment is a must for the art lovers cafe, whose white walls really benefit from some nice party lighting, i think.
If you've had an event at the House for an Art Lover, please do post a comment to tell us about your experience there.
Me, Katie & Dougie, the 3 piece Jiggers ceilidh band outside the House For An Art Lover.
The baby grand piano in the dining room
The 3 piece band & DJ option has a smaller footprint and fits snugly into the corner of the room!
Apr 14th 2010
Boturich Castle
Scotland is a great place to get married. You rarely have to travel more than 10 minutes from any point in the country to find a really beautiful backdrop for your wedding celebration.One of the best things about being in a ceilidh band is the fact that we get to perform in some of the most beautiful places in Scotland.
Raising the game for wedding venues around Loch Lomond (of which there are many) is the recently developed Boturich Castle.
Well, OK. It's not like they've just built an ancient castle, but the point is that they've just added a large fixed marquee which caters for (at a guess) about 200 guests.
They held their first wedding there last week, and Bigdaymusic was hired by the happy couple to provide the wedding entertainment (which included the bagpiper, and also the ceilidh band and DJ for the evening).
Now the Jiggers have played lots of really nice venues around Loch Lomond: The Lodge on the Loch, Luss, Cameron House, Loch Lomond Youth Hostel, Duck Bay, loch Lomond Shores- Drumkinnon Tower, Ross Priory. But the most breathtaking view has to be the one you get from from Boturich.
The castle (and marquee) is situated on a hill north-east of Balloch, and as you can see from the photos, has an unhindered perspective on the loch. The real selling point of Boturich, I think, is the fact that two whole walls of the large venue are completely glass, meaning all the guests benefit from that incredible view for the whole day.
I don't know how much they charge for events held there. I can't imagine that it's cheap… I believe that you can hire in your own caterers,though which might make it a bit more flexible if you can get a good deal on the food.
And of course, catch us on a good day and we might also be happy to shave a few quid off the price just for the chance to play up there again 
Here's some pics of Dougie, Katie and Donald chillaxin' outside the venue…
Dec 11th 2009
Nov 27th 2009
Update: Jiggers Ceilidh Band on Scotland’s BBC Live hogmanay show?
I have a theory that if everybody spoke like Robbie Shepherd, there wouldn't be any wars.
Sadly, this year the Jiggers ceilidh band will NOT be performing on Radio Scotland's live Hogmanay show. A bit gutted. That would have been fun. It was an honour to be asked, though! We've got some of our musicians playing at Hampden, others at the Hilton, AND (to further disappoint those of you who like fortuitous alliteration) at the Mormon Church. (maybe they could call it a Hootenanny?) It's going to be a pretty tight stretch as it is…
Good news, however, is that I discovered the DV tapes from the original BIG JIG were NOT corrupted after all, it was just the video camera I was playing them in! D'oh! Well, that means that I'll have TWO events to get a new Jiggers video from (the other being the Wee Jig on Saturday night there). So all in all, things are going OK.
www.bbc.co.uk
Recent Blog Posts
Recent Blog Posts:
