Entry to competition cancelled

Sadly due to ill health or unavailability of members we have been forced to withdraw from the competition this year.

Morpeth gathering April 15

The Redheughers are once again attending the Morpeth Gathering. You will find us in the Town Hall for refreshments from 12:00 noon and in St Georges Church from 13:00 onwards ready for the competition.

We’ll do our best to win the cup yet again!

Why not come along to support us?

April Ceilidh at Brunton Park

Last nights ceilidh – our first “under new administration” as “Tyneside Ceilidh Nights” was really enjoyable; although you wouldnt always guess that from the band’s expressions! Anyway the dancers seemed to be enjoying themselves. There’s always room for more!

Our new regular venue for practice meetings

Its great to be back in our “real” home of Gateshead. Following a change of ownership and re-opening after lockdown we were able to return to the Central Bar. Its renowned for its architecture … OK and the fantastic selection of beers.

You will usually find us in the “Buffet Bar”

Now “Tyneside Ceilidh Club”

Having (somewhat reluctantly) been forced to move away from our original “home” in Gateshead the committee have decided to retire “Gateshead Ceilidh Club” and rename it as “Tyneside Ceilidh Club” which is now enjoying a new home in West Jesmond.
One thing has not changed – the enjoyment that everyone present gets, as you can see in the photo. Ignore the scowls on the musicians, we havent yet learnt to play and smile at the same time!

Gateshead Ceilidh Club is alive and well ..

The “trial run” at our Christmas Ceilidh proved a success, and yesterday (1 March 2022) our “inaugural” Gateshead Ceilidh Club ceilidh showed members are ready to get back to dancing. The dance was well attended – numbers were just right for the limited space of our current venue.  We hope (and expect) that our monthly ceilids will continue, so we are looking forward to our next on April 5th.

Christmas Ceilidh

Its been smashing meeting to practise again – but on 7 Dec we had our first ceilidh after the lockdown – and our last for 2021.  It was a great success (albeit a bit low on numbers) but we all had a smashing time and we hope to re-start monthly ceilidhs in 2022 – watch this space!

Redheughers together again

After 16 months of limited activity due to Covid we are finally playing together again on a weekly basis!

Its been a challenging time for us all but Robin and Rachael have done a brilliant job providing new and interesting tunes both as dots and recorded “playalong” mp3’s for us to practise, and leading sessions on  zoom.

However its great to be able to have the experience of playing together as a band once again, and hear just how good we sound as an ensemble.

Our meeting venue – the Royal British Legion club, West Jesmond, NE2 3EX – have been fully complying with Covid regs and we’ve all felt very safe with the “hands face space” system.

There is one new innovation that has come out of this difficult time; Rachael has ben able to “televise ” our live meetings on Zoom to make them accessible for members who for any reason cannot be there in person.

New members are always welcome so if you play an instrument (not percussion, sorry) and can play in keys of D & G just contact us and we can give you more information, and some music to get you started.

We really enjoyed our first “together” practise of the year on 29 June. Lets hope tomorrow night 13 july goes as well!