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Bands with whom Dave has worked as a Caller

This is a list of the bands that Dave Hunt has called dances for since 1973. It includes most of the best-known and most respected English dance bands.

We've tried to make this list as complete as possible - it gets longer all the time - but if we've missed you out let us know and we'll add you to the list.


  • A5 Barndance Band
  • Aardvark
  • Acme Dance Band
  • Albireo
  • Alf Alfa and the Wild Oats
  • All Blacked Up
  • Amaryllis
  • Aquaband
  • Banjax
  • Barry's Best
  • Bass Instincts
  • Berwick School Band
  • Bedlam
  • Bismarcks
  • Blue Mountain Band
  • Black Cross Ceilidh Band
  • Black Junket Rumpus Band
  • Boat Band
  • Borderlines
  • Borborigme
  • Bottle Lodge
  • Boys of Oakhill
  • Brackenrigg
  • Brians Band
  • Brown Boots and No Breakfast
  • Bursledon Village Band
  • Captain Swing
  • Caractarus Dyke
  • Carbolics
  • Castle’B’
  • Caught on the Hop
  • Ceilidhography
  • The Celebration Band
  • Chasefolk
  • Chequered Roots
  • Chipolata 2!
  • Churchfitters
  • Cluster of Nuts
  • Cock and Bull
  • Cutting Wood and Coope
  • Cwm Dancing
  • Dance Factory
  • Dan Quinntet
  • Dartmoor Pixie Band
  • Denis Smith/Sue Stapledon
  • Derbyshire Volunteers
  • Desperate Measures
  • Devious Roots
  • Ducks on a Wall
  • Dr.Faustus
  • E II
  • Electropathics
  • English Mustard
  • English Rebellion
  • Excelsior Band
  • Expanding Waste Band
  • Feckless
  • Ffonic
  • Fiddlin’ Around
  • Fidget Pie
  • Five Speed Box
  • Florida
  • Flowers and Frolics
  • Flying Cloud
  • Flying Fish
  • Folkworks Staff Band
  • Fourpence Halfpenny Farthing
  • Full House
  • The Gallivants
  • Gas Mark V
  • Geckoes
  • Gorton Tank
  • Goose and Gridiron Band
  • Grand Union
  • Grassroots
  • Green Man Rising
  • Happenstance
  • Happy Daze
  • Headford/Willets Band
  • Hedgehog Pie
  • Hedgehog Skin
  • Hekety
  • Herbal Remedy
  • High Jinx
  • High Level Ranters
  • High Society
  • Higgledy Piggledy Band
  • Hodges Dump
  • Hookes Law
  • Hoover the Dog
  • Housewive's Choice
  • Ian Beddowes Band
  • Inflammable Band
  • Iceni
  • Jaberdaw
  • Jiganory
  • Jeffamati
  • John Kirkpatrick All Stars
  • Johnny Handle Band
  • Jump Start
  • Junction 24
  • Kalie Minogue
  • Katies Quartet
  • Kerfuffle
  • King Coles Hobbyhorse Band
  • Kings of Calicutt
  • Kitchen Girls
  • Kurly Kale
  • Les Miserables
  • Little Johnny England
  • Liverpool Ceilidh Band
  • Llandaff Hope
  • Lounge Lizard
  • Mad River Band
  • Magic Rantabout
  • May Contain Nuts
  • Melons for Ecstasy
  • Metric Foot
  • Mixolydians
  • MoonDance
  • Mud on the Road
  • New Steam Band
  • New Vintage
  • Nightwatch
  • Nota Bene
  • Oakapple
  • Oatcake Billy's Ideal Band
  • Occasional Few
  • Occasional Pub Band
  • Official Brawl
  • Old Hat Dance Band
  • Old Hog
  • Old Swan Band
  • One Short
  • Oyster Band
  • Packhorse Band
  • Pandemonium
  • Peeping Tom
  • Pepper in the Brandy
  • Perfect Cure
  • The Phantom Trio
  • Phungus
  • Pig on the Wall
  • Pigtown Fling
  • Plumtree Ceilidh Band
  • Polkabilly
  • Polkaworks
  • Potter and Doolittles Country Dance Band
  • Public Sector
  • The Rakes
  • Ramsbottom
  • Random
  • Ran-Tan Band
  • Raw Material
  • Rhythm Chaps
  • Ripchord
  • Ripley Wayfarers
  • Rising Sun Band
  • Rogues Gallery
  • Root Nine
  • Rusty Buckles
  • Sack the Juggler
  • Saucerers
  • Shropshire Heroes
  • Sox
  • Spiro
  • Static
  • Squiffers Musical Box
  • Steamchicken
  • Step and Fetcher
  • Stocai
  • Syzewell Gap
  • Stomp
  • Swallowtail
  • Syphon the Python
  • Tettenhall Dick
  • This Way Up
  • Tickled Pink
  • Tiger Moth
  • Tight Squeeze
  • Time Bandits
  • Tipsy Parson
  • Token Women
  • The Tony Hall Band
  • Top Tup Band
  • Tumbling Tom
  • Two Left Feet
  • Umps and Dumps
  • Used Notes
  • Wall Star Village Band
  • Wallochmoor Ceilidh Band
  • Wayfarers
  • Webbs Wonders
  • Weltones
  • Weston Country Dance Band
  • Whapweasel
  • Wheezle
  • Whirligig
  • Woodpeckers
  • Yetties
   
 

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