The Plump Hill Band

The Plump Hill English Barn Dance & Ceilidh Band offers you over twenty five years’ experience of playing for social occasions.

We play for weddings, anniversaries, Burns nights, parties, local celebrations, school events, conferences, and much more.

We play throughout our home area of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire and Wye Valley, and are happy to travel to the Cotswolds, the Welsh Marches, South Wales, the Severn Valley, the Midlands and sometimes beyond.

We are as content in a village hall as in a large specialist venue.

Currently, we perform as either a two-piece band (flute/recorders and keyboard) or a three-piece band (recorders, rhythm guitar and bass guitar), plus our caller.

We think we have a very distinctive line-up. We are primarly an English Dance Band, and instead of fiddle or melodeon, we use flute/recorders for the melody. This gives us a mellow sound, the kind of thing you might have heard played for dances in Austen adaptations! But the addition of bass and guitar or keyboard brings our sound up to date, and provides plenty of energy to get everyone up on their feet and dancing.

Do please have a listen to us and see what you think. Note that our video and audio clips are of recorder/flute, guitar and bass. Our other line-up, with recorder/flute and keyboard, is a similar sound, but slightly more traditional.

Oh, and the band’s name celebrates an old settlement in the Forest of Dean, not the (mostly) svelte shapes of the band!