Ceilidh/barndance band for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Northamptonshire, Essex and beyond
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We’ve lots more photos to put here but are frantically busy, so please check back from time to time.
Catch the Pigeon taking a break at a ceilidh at Shimpling Park Farm, August 2025Catch the Pigeon ceilidh at St Ives Corn Exchange, celebrating 600 years of the bridge, July 2025Catch the Pigeon ceilidh at St Ives Corn Exchange, celebrating 600 years of the bridge, July 2025Catch the Pigeon ceilidh at St Ives Corn Exchange, celebrating 600 years of the bridge, July 2025Catch the Pigeon at Eltisley, July 2025Ollie Simons calling for Catch the Pigeon at Eltisley, July 2025Catch the Pigeon at Ely Folk Festival, July 2025 (photo: Tim Bootle)Trevor Smith with Catch the Pigeon at Ely Folk Festival, July 2025 (photo: Tim Bootle)The outstanding Ollie Simons calling for Catch the Pigeon at a wedding at Suffolk Barn, June 2025.Catch the Pigeon ceilidh at Little Thetford, March 2025. Pigeon-fanciers in their shirts.Catch the Pigeon ceilidh at Sutton, February 2025Catch the Pigeon at Sutton, February 2025Catch the Pigeon ceilidh at Sawston, November 2024 – a particularly fun dance called Genoa.Catch the Pigeon at Sutton, September 2024Catch the Pigeon ceilidh at Bury St Edmunds cathedral, May 2024Catch the Pigeon ceilidh at Bury St Edmunds cathedral, May 2024Catch the Pigeon ceilidh at Orwell, January 2024. I’ve no idea what all the hats are for.Catch the Pigeon ceilidh at a wedding at Banham, October 2023Lawshall, Suffolk, 2023. The fiddle and bodhran players left the stage to join in the dancing.Wedding ceilidh at Felixstowe Ferry, 2023Most of the band didn’t know that they would be the only ones in fancy dress – a special request from Jo, the bride!
More photos from 2023. Some of these photos are from event photographers Alex Cossey and Buffy Thompson. Thank you both for permission to use these photos.
Photographer: Buffy ThompsonPhotographer: Buffy ThompsonPhotographer: Buffy ThompsonPhotographer: Alex CosseyPhotographer: Alex CosseyPhotographer: Alex Cossey
July 2023, Ely Folk Festival (thank you to Naomi Smith and Shelagh Partington for the photos).
February 2023, Great Shelford.
November 2022, The Ark, Isleham.
November 2022, Sawston.
November 2022, Isleham.
June 2022. St Edmundsbury Cathedral.
Catch the Pigeon ceilidh in Bury St Edmunds cathedral, June 2022Catch the Pigeon ceilidh in Bury St Edmunds cathedral, June 2022Catch the Pigeon ceilidh in Bury St Edmunds cathedral, June 2022
February 2020. A ceilidh in Little Thetford Village Hall, a brilliant evening arranged by the Little Thetford Feast Committee. This is the first ceilidh there for quite a while but it won’t be the last.
Catch the Pigeon ceilidh at Little Thetford, February 2020
More pictures on the Little Thetford Feast page on Facebook here.
November 2019. Sheila Neill’s big fund-raiser in aid of Addenbrookes and Papworth hospitals, and Macmillan Cancer Support. A huge turn-out at the City of Ely College, including our mayor, dancing in his robes. More pictures here.
October 2019. We were excited to be asked to play for a ceilidh in the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral, celebrating the harvest, our second cathedral ceilidh this year. I’ll post a few pictures from that night but you can find a huge number more here – many thanks to Alan Gamble for his great pictures.
June 2019. Pictures from the ceilidh we played for in Bury-Saint-Edmunds cathedral, in aid of the choir school.
Yet more pictures of Catch the Pigeon in action, but keep going – there are more to come!
We’ve a few pictures from our January 2018 ceilidh in Wicken here and a lot more from Andrew Goodbody here. Thanks, Andrew.
Here are some pictures from one of our 2017 ceilidhs at the Beet Club in Ely and a brief video clip. There are lots more pictures here – many thanks to Andrew Goodbody.
Rather a long time ago, three of us spent some time in the studio, making videos to showcase John’s wonderful drums (see here). I know we look frighteningly serious in these clips but we really were having a lot of fun.
