Causeway Wedding Music, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland, Ulster

Causeway

Wedding Music

Sabine & Dick Glasgow

We are professional musicians, who specialise in playing Irish & Scottish Traditional Music for Weddings throughout Northern Ireland. We can offer you:

1 - Quiet, simple, reflective, appropriate, pieces of music for before, during & after the Ceremony on Harp, Fiddle, Flute, Concertina & Hammered Dulcimer.

2 - A relaxing mix of Music for your guests, at reception, while they wait for all your photographs to be taken, & for your Wedding Banquet to begin.

3 - Our Ceili Band can provide you with a mix of easy to learn Irish & Scottish Ceili Dances, to help you round off the day in style.

'Causeway Ceili Band'

"The Causeway Ceili Band are a five piece Ceili Band, who feature two Professional Traditional Musicians, Sabine & Dick Glasgow, plus Harpist Jo, Pipe Maker & player Jaff and Mairead, our Caller.

We specialise in playing for Irish & Scottish Ceili Dances for Weddings and Events.

We are all multi-instrumentalists, so at one of their Ceilis you will be entertained by music, plus Irish & Scottish song too if you wish, and you will be dancing to the sound of the Fiddle, Uilleann Pipes, Hammered Dulcimer (an old Co Antrim instrument), Harps (2), Concertinas (2), Mandolin, Bouzouki, Flutes, Whistles & Bodhran."

Our experienced caller will ensure that you all keep stepping in the right direction.

Instruments we play at the Wedding Ceremony & Reception

Click on Photos to enlarge! )

Harp

Fiddle

Hammered Dulcimer

Mandolin

Concertina

( An old County Antrim Instrument! )

Listen to some of our Music here:

Flute

Fife

Co. Antrim's Hammered Dulcimer is a popular choice

Outside Ballintoy Church, Co. Antrim

Playing Dulcimer for Wedding Ceremony

Photos taken by champion Dulcimer player - Rick Davis.

Listen to the sound of our Hammered Dulcimer here:

To see some of the many other musical instruments we play, visit our instrument photo gallery at

We occasionally work with 3 different Pipers, so you could also enjoy the sound of any one of these:

Scottish Smallpipes

Uilleann Pipes

Northumbrian Pipes

We are also asked to play at other events.

Banquets, Pageants & Living History

We play Scottish, Irish & Breton Traditional Music, Ancient, Medieval & Baroque Music for all manner of functions & events.

The 'Causeway Ceili Band'

If required after the meal, our group, can provide Scottish / Irish Traditional entertainment, with Irish or Scottish Songs, Scottish or Uilleann Pipes, or a blend of both.

Your very own tune'

If you like, you can take advantage of our speciality, for your Special Day.

We will compose a tune for you, play it for you during the day, & present you with the Music on manuscript, plus a recording of it, on CD.

If you like, we can dress up in Costume.

Ancient Music & Medieval Costume

Wire strung Lap Harp, Lyre, Memling Fiddle, Crumhorn, Jews Harp, Shawm & Small Pipes .

Renaissance Music & C17th Costume

Gut strung Knee Harp, Viol, Hurdy Gurdy, Bowed Psaltery, Recorder, Bombarde, Flute.

Druid Wedding

We have a variety of authentic historic costumes & are happy to play suitable music for your Druid Wedding.

Visit this site to learn more about the 'Ancient Irish Wedding Tradition' of 'Handfasting':

Words from some satisfied Customers.

"Hello Dick & Sabine,

Just a quick email to say many thanks for playing at our reception on the 11th. You were a hit with everyone - particularly the children and their parents I think! I'm sorry that neither of us got a chance to speak to you in person on the day, but we did appreciate hearing your music in the background!
We will certainly recommend you to our friends.

Many thanks again,
Richard & Stephanie Blayney"

"Hello, you played at my wedding ..
I would just like to thank you. My husband and myself were extremely happy with your service, and all our guests thought it brought a lovely touch to the day.
You really helped make our day special.
I would also like to thank you for playing Dancing music for my little nephew, it made his day.
Once again I would just like to thank you, and I have recommended you to people whom I know, who are planning their wedding at present.
Many Thanks
Damien and Bernadette"

"Hubert and I wanted to thank you both very much for playing at our wedding in Cullybackey ....Everyone enjoyed the music, both in the church and at the marquee, and it all suited the occasion perfectly.Thanks again and all the best! Sharon Brown Kerr (formerly Lamont)"

"We would like to thank you and your wife for the music during our Wedding meal. Many of our guests commented on the music you played. Thanks again. Liam & Natasha Kearney"

"Sabine & Dick, with many thanks for your music, & your expertise & knowledge. Geraldine & Pat"

"Dear Dick & Sabine

I'm delighted to write to thank you for your participation in Monday's Menu of Moyle awards event - your music sounded wonderful and really added to ambience to the event.

I'm also pleased to say that we have received a lot of positive feedback from our guests, many of whom have specifically mentioned their delight at the music.

Deirdre McNeill, Cultural Tourism Officer "

For more information contact us by:

E-mail: -

Tel: - 028-207-51746

Mobile: - 079130 75848

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A flavour of how early Frontier & Ulster Wedding Musicians would have looked.

C18th Pioneer Wedding

C19th Ulster Wedding

We played for a 19th Century Ulster Wedding, dressed as the Harp & Fiddle player above, as part of the Ulster American Folk Park’s ‘Old, New, Borrowed, Blue…’ festival, May 2006.
Later that afternoon we also played for a Pioneer wedding - in ‘Pennsylvania’, but for that wedding we used different costumes and different instruments; a Hammered Dulcimer & a Fife, as in the other photograph.

I’m delighted to say both weddings were great fun to be a part of and the large crowds that attended both, clearly had a wonderful day. These weddings really brought the Folk Park to life & made fantastic use of the setting, with all those amazing old buildings. If you haven’t been up to the Ulster American Folk Park yet, I can thoroughly recommend it Yee-Haa!

By the way, the long faces on these ‘happy couples’ were in fact due to the length of time it took for the exposure to take place & also because, apparently, back in those days, everyone had ‘rotten black teeth’, so nobody smiled in photographs - ah, the good old days!

Photos taken by - Geoff at the Ulster American Folk Park.

We are happy to travel anywhere in Ulster.

However, for Weddings further south, we would recommend that you contact:

'Celticbreeze'

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