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scots magazine review of dancing fingers by the orwell ceilidh band
Taken from the Scots magazine January 2004 'LIsten to this with Alasdair Maclean'.

Dancing Fingers is the debut disc from the recently formed Orwell Ceilidh Band, called after the parish that takes in Milnathort, where the band founder Neil Paterson lives. Now Neil has joined with accordionist Gail Cumming from Broughty Ferry and Laura Stewart from Falkland on drums to produce a young confident sound that toe tappers will  find addictive

Moira were pupils of the late
John Huband, and they include a tribute to him in the collection.
   It's very cheering to see such a young band, founded in 2000, and
made up of young people, too, carrying on a proud tradition with such
competence and assurance. We'll be hearing more from them, I have no
doubt.

Orwell Ceilidh Band,
OCB01CD
Contact: 01577862159
The band is augmented by John Reid of Dunfermline and Perth Strathspey and Reel Societies, who plays a selection of his own tunes, and by Moira McGibbon of the Muirhead Accordion Band and of Craggan, too, as second box on most of the 15 tracks. Muirhead ranks quite highly on this album as both Gail and

 

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