North East Soiree offer fully professional entertainment for weddings, birthday parties and corporate entertainment for all over the North East of England. We regularly perform as String Quartet, Jazz Band, Swing Band, Ceilidh Band, Medieval Music and the superb Party Band in Durham, Newcastle upon tyne, Sunderland, Middlesbrough, Darlington in fact all over Tyne and Wear, Northumberland, County Durham, Teeside and North Yorkshire.
Call Gordon Callander on 0191 529 5221 / 07768 323 832
email: gordon@northeastsoiree.com
String Quartet is the most popular single item from our services however many of our video recordings have a lot of background noise as they are shot live. We have compiled a short sampler video here to show a couple of photos of our quartet with some recordings in quiet surroundings and then a few short clips of live videos. The String Quartet can be booked together with any of the other live bands at discounted rates. click here for Special offers.
We understand that it can be difficult to know how a multi-style band actually perform and how it will work all at the same wedding. So this is a sample of music played between 7pm and midnight at one wedding - all recorded from 1 video camera mounted on a gallery in Ellingham Hall in Northumberland with generally short clips of each tune.
This video is fairly typical where we start the evening off by welcoming the guests back into the Function Room after the meal with gentle background music played on Sax, Piano, Bass and Drums... getting more lively leading up to the 1st dance.
1. Blue Moon 2. Don't Get Around Much Anymore 3. Sweet Georgia Brown
In this wedding shown here, we now start the Ceilidh, however we could now switch to the Party band or Swing Band with singer as required. In the Ceilidh Band, we give full demonstrations and teach all the moves before each dance and then instructions, as required as shown here. 4. Gay Gordons 5. Dashing White Sergeant 6. Virginia Reel
At this wedding here, the Party Band performed with one long set of 90 mins but we are flexible to requirements, for example we often perform 3 sets of 45 minutes with a little disco between sets. It all depends on what you want to fit into the night.
7. Mustang Sally 8. I Will Survive 9. I Wanna Be Like You 10. Twist and Shout 11. Long Train Running 12. Hot and Cold 13. Sex on Fire 14. Johnny B. Goode Followed by Disco till midnight with your own playlist.
The above video is an example of our Swing Jazz Band with our own Crooner perfoming "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" in a local church hall during a Tea Dance. This Jazz band is formed using the same players as the Ceilidh Band plus another two, so combined events are very simple and ecconomical.
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Wedding Songs and Music Ideas for Wedding Ceremonies
Here are some popular tunes which are often requested for Wedding Ceremonies. We have a much larger selection of music available in our Repertoire list. Click here for our String Quartet Repertoire List.
Music Prior to the Ceremony start
J.S.Bach - Sheep May Safely Graze ~ J.S.Bach - Air on G string ~ Bocherini - Minuet ~ Elgar - Nimrod ~ Faure - Pavane ~ Purcell - Two Rondeaux
Processional Music - for the Entrance of the Bride Classical
Wagner - Here Comes the Bride ~ Pachelbel - Canon in D ~ Purcell - Trumpet Voluntary ~ Elgar - Nimrod ~ Handel - Air from the Water Music
Popular Adele(Bob Dylan) - Make You Feel My Love ~ Bruno Mars - Just the Way You Are ~ Bruno Mars - Marry Me ~ Charles Azvanour - She ~ Des'ree - Kissing You ~ Muse - Starlight ~ Westlife - You raise me up
Wedding Songs and Music During the Signing of the Register Classical J.S.Bach - Air on G string ~ Leo Delibes - Flower Duet from Lakme ~ Elgar - Chanson de Matin ~ Elgar - Salut d'amour ~ Handel - Ombra Mai Fu ~ Massenet - Meditation from Thais ~ Pachelbel - Canon in D ~ Puccini - O Mio Babbino Caro ~ Tchaikovsky - Waltz of the Flowers ~ Vivaldi - Spring from 4Seasons
Popular Bryan Adams - Heaven ~ Bryan Adams - Everything I do ~ Beatles - Here there and everywhere ~ Beatles - Here Comes The Sun ~ James Blunt - You're Beautiful ~ Michael Bubble - Everything ~ Elton John - Your Song ~ Fleetwood Mac - Songbird ~ Lonestar - Amazed ~ Ronan Keating - When You Say Nothing ~ Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply ~ Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars ~ Wannadies - You and Me Song ~ Waltzing Matilda
Films Louis Armstrong - We Have All The Time ~ Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World ~ Can You Feel the Love from the Lion King ~ Come What May from Moulin Rouge ~ For the love of a Princess from Braveheart ~ Father of the Bride Theme ~ Gabriels Oboe Theme ~ Nobody does it better ~ Whole New World from Aladdin
Recessional Music - Walking Out Classical Jeremiah Clarke - Prince of Denmark's March ~ Handel - Arrival of the Queen of Sheba ~ Handel - Hornpipe from Water Music ~ Mendelsohnn - wedding March
Popular Beatles - All You Need is Love ~ Beatles - Eleanor Rigby ~ Phil Collins - Groovy Kind of Love ~ Madness - It Must Be Love ~ Metallica - Nothing Else Matters ~ Take That - Greatest Day ~ Take That - Rule the world ~ Verve - Bittersweet Symphony ~ Star Wars Theme
Background Music for the Drinks Reception Classical J.S.Bach - Double Violin Concerto in D ~ Karl Jenkins - Palladio ~ Mozart - Eine Kleine Nacht Music ~ Trad - Greensleeves
Popular Aerosmith - Don't Wanna Miss a Thing ~ Bangles - Eternal Flame ~ Black Eyed Peas - I got a Feelin' ~ Coldplay - Viva la Vida ~ Ben E King - Stand By Me ~ Elbow - One Day Like This ~ Fly Me to the Moon ~ Foo Fighters – Everlong ~ Guns n Roses - Sweet Child O Mine ~ Etta James - At Last ~ Killers - Mr Brightside ~ My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade ~ Sting - Every Breath ~ Sting - Fields of Gold ~ Jackie Wilson - Higher and Higher
Films El Tango de Roxanne from Moulin Rouge ~ Godfather Theme ~ StarWars - Cantina Band music
Here are just some of the North East Venues where North East Soiree have performed
Northumberland
Alnwick Castle, Alnwick Gardens, Bamburgh Castle, Birtley Village Hall (nr Hexham), Broomley Grange, Bywell, Chillingham Castle, Close House, Craik Park Morpeth, Cuddystone, Dilston, Dissington, Doxford, Ellingham, Embleton, Eshott, Guyzance, Kirkley, Langley Castle, Linden, Longhirst, Matfen, Otterburn Towers, Ridley, Slaley Hall, The George Chollerford, Trinity Church Ashington, Wood Hill Hall,
Tyne and Wear
Backworth Community Centre, Caledonian Hotel, Cullercoats Methodist Church, Grand Hotel Tynemouth, Holiday Inn, Horton Grange, Little Haven Hotel, Menzies Hotel, North Shields Rugby Club, Quality Hotel (Boldon), South Shields Town Hall, Tynemouth Sailing Club, Whitburn Parish Church,
Newcastle upon Tyne Assembly Rooms, Copthorne Hotel, Gosforth Cricket Club, Great North Museum: Hancock, Jesmond Dene Hotel, Mansionhouse, Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle Civic Centre, Newcastle Uni, Northern Counties Club, Saville Exchange, Scalini's Gosforth, Shieldfield Social Club, st Georges Church-Jesmond, Swallow Inn, Thistle Hotel, Vermont Hotel,
Gateshead
Angel View Inn, Baltic Art Gallery, Federation Brewery Lancastrians Suite, Felling Methodist Church, Gateshead Hilton, The Sage
County Durham
Auckland Castle, Beamish, Bishop Auckland Town Hall, Brancepeth Castle, Brockwell Studios, Christ Church Great Lumley, Coxhoe WM Club, Derwent Manor, East Durham College, Eggleston, Framwellgate Moor Community Centre, Glebe Centre Murton, Hallgarth Manor Hotel, Hardwick Hall Hotel, Hardwicke Manor Hotel, Hetton Centre, Lumley Castle, Maltshovel Inn, Manor House (West Auckland), Middleton Lodge, Minsteracres, Morritt Arms, Rainton Meadows Arena, Ramside Hall, Redworth Hall, Riverside Durham County Cricket, Seaham Hall, St James Church Castle Eden, St John Church Castleside, st Mary church Shincliffe, The George Piercebridge, Walworth Castle, Whitworth Hall
Durham City
Alington House, County Hotel, Crook Hall, Durham Castle, Durham Cricket Club, Durham School, Durham Town Hall, Durham University (Colleges of Collingwood, st Aidens, st Bede, st Chads, st Hild, Van Mildert), Oswald Institute, Three Tuns Hotel
Darlington
Bannatines Hotel, Blackwell Grange, Dinsdale Spa Golf Club, Hall Garth House, Headlam Hall, Rockliffe Hall, The Kings Centre
Sunderland
Calvary Christian Fellowship, Crowtree Leisure Centre, National Glass Centre, Marriott Hotel Seaburn, Quayside Exchange, Roker Hotel, St Andrews Roker, St Benets Roker, Stadium of Light, Sunderland church of latter day saints, Sunderland Health and Racquet Club, Sunderland Leisure Centre, Sunderland church of latter day saints, Sunderland Sheik Temple, Tunstall Lodge
Teesside
Durham Uni (Stockton Campus), Eaglescliffe Golf Club, Gisborough, Hartlepool Rugby Club, Judges Yarm, Marton Hotel, McCoy's (Yarm), Mercedes Benz Stockton, MTLC Centre Middlesbrough, Oakwood Centre Eaglescliffe, Pinchinthorpe Hotel, St Cuthberts Marton, Wynyard Hall
North Yorkshire
Catterick Officers Mess, Chapel Hall Hutton Rudby, Chopgate Village Hall, Crathorne Hall, Fountains Abbey, Grinkle Park, Harewood House, Rudding Park, Solberge Hall
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