Welcome to the website of Crowded Croft, a fine ceilidh band and without doubt the best thing to come out of Helensburgh since telly.

Originally a duo combining the talents of Alasdair Allan (violin) and Andy Clark (guitar), Crowded Croft evolved into a three piece with the arrival of drummer Andy Bruce in 2005. Gigs aplenty followed, taking the trio all over Scotland for weddings, functions and folk festivals. Next a four piece line up was introduced with the signing of singer and bassist Stuart Cowan, enabling Crowded Croft to cover an impressively broad range of musical genres for all occasions. And here we are up and running in cyberspace where you can listen to sound clips, email the band for bookings and yes buy the t-shirts.

Click here for FAQs about booking Crowded Croft.

News

Just back from Norway!!!
Our first foreign engagement did not disappoint. Click here and here for a few pics of our recent trip to Norway to play for the Bergen Scottish Society. Wonderful town, we made some great new friends, the gig was a blinder and oh dear, 8 quid a pint. Best of all we've been invited back in October 2010. Takk skal du ha å våre venner inne Bergen. Vi fikk moro.


June 2009
This month we're checking in with a couple of our favourite regular customers. On the 20th we're back for a third time at the utterly bonkers Scottish Hockey Awards in Dundee. Sadly no Dougie Vipond this year but we look forward to meeting this year's MC Katie Still from the beeb. Then on the 27th we're back in Hyndland Community Hall for the Residents' Association Summer bash. After that it all goes quiet due to summer holidays and the imminent arrival of another baby Croftlet. See you in September.

Set list
In the FAQs page you can find out what dances the ceilidh arm of the band rattle out and then there's all the pop tunes we play when our soulful singer Stu drops by.

The difficult second album.
The second Crowded Croft cd started off life being sold for a fiver but now you just have to fake interest and we'll send you five copies for free. It's really good, don't get me wrong, but it's about time we did another one. And this year we really will record some of the pop stuff so you can hear both strings of our bow if you know what I mean. Anwyay, you can download Archie, Bumble Boogie and some other stuff here. Enjoy!

You can email the band for further more information on bookings and so on at this address:info@crowdedcroft.co.uk or alternatively, you can call Andy B on 07799 872208

Make sure you visit the croft again soon. Cheers.