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

March 29 2008 - New Crofter
Thanks to the superb Alan Craig for stepping into Andy C's shoes for the Orchestra ceilidh last Saturday. We'll have him back at some point if he can fit us in. Classic FM broadcasted his opera you know. Buy it here.

March 25 2008 - Email is fixed. Honest.
At last we've got to the bottom of our technical problems and you can email us your booking requests / comments / personal problems to the usual address at good old info@crowdedcroft.co.uk.

What's brewing?
Oh this and that. The diary is getting full but we're not completely booked up for the year yet so drop us a line if you'd like to book us. Gigs of note on the horizon include the Scottish Hockey Awards (with Dougie Vipond who last time said we were quite good) and maybe a trip to Norway next year for a gig or two. Carlsberg don't do ceilidh bands but if they did........oh that's Denmark isn't it.

Hogmanay
Not like us to get all official on you but we've had a few queries about this: At present we've made no decision if we intend to play on Hogmanay this year, and if so, where and for whom. One organisation seems to think we are "pencilled in" but that's news to us!! For more info, give us a call or email.

Set list updated
Just to say in the FAQs page there's now a list of the ceilidh dances as well as pop stuff we do with Stu.


Andy Clark - New website #2
Andy's got a new website for when he has his composer hat on. You can download some of his recent music for film there. Darn impressive. Click here.


October 5 - Crowded Crieff - updated
We've said it before and we'll say it again. Hydro, Schmydro. The best night out in town is to be found at the Tower Hotel. A low key pub gig turned into a mass ceilidh frenzy with impromtu Gay Gordons in the bar, the hall and the kitchens. Head for youtube.com and you'll find the clips. Quite funny. And there's photos here.



Video
We've stuck a few video clips (of varying quality) on youtube. Go seek here.

Andy Clark - New website
After one or two technical glitches, Andy's own website is now up and running. So if you want a pianist / guitarist / bassist / saxophonist / singer / songwriter / composer or lessons in any of the above, go here.

Two Step DJs - New website
And Alasdair's also been getting his side-project up to scratch. The last Thursday in the month is where the mighty Two Step DJs do their stuff at Tinderbox on Byres Road, 8.30 onwards. Splendid website.


The difficult second album.
There's now a second Crowded Croft cd doing the rounds. 14 tracks and fabulous artwork courtesy of Mortons of Glasgow. Email us if you want a copy. We are charging a fiver for it but we usually end up desperately handing them out to anyone who'll bother to listen. As a taster, you can download Archie and Bumble Boogie here. One day we'll get round to recording some stuff with Stuart.

Bebo
Just to say we've got a Crowded Croft page on www.bebo.com now. The patter's funnier than this website. We'll eventually get round to having a myspace presence sometime.

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.