Based in:
Sydney NSW
Line up(s) available: solo
Alison Boyd - Celtic Harpist & Multi-Instrumentalist
Alison provides soothing harp music creating a peaceful atmosphere, perfect for weddings and intimate functions.Specialising in Celtic & Australian music her repertoire expands out to include many other styles including Celtic covers of popular songs.
She can provide anything from solo harp through to a 4 piece band playing Irish & Australian music (traditional & modern) to get you dancing & singing along.
Originally from Belfast, Alison has performed both nationally and internationally for weddings, parties, festivals, concerts, community events, Irish sessions, amusement parks, cruise ships, private and corporate functions, tourists, fundraisers, bush dances and Ceili nights.
Alison also plays:
Irish whistle
Flute (wooden & classical)
Piano Accordion
Bodhran
Keyboards
Bouzouki
Vocals
Would you like something unusual for your wedding?
A harpist as part of the ceremony creates a beautiful romantic & peaceful ambience. Alison has played the harp for many wedding and functions including performing in Sydney Town Hall for Mary McAleese (President of Ireland).
Alison plays:
- before the ceremony
- for the bride to process in
- while you sign the register
- at the end of the ceremony
Not just for weddings, the harp can provide beautiful background music for any function or occasion.
Other combinations include:
Harp & Guitar - the combination of Celtic harp & guitar can add a sophisticated atmosphere to your occasion. It is perfect for creating that relaxing mood.
Harp & Fiddle – for that real Irish sound.
Full Irish &/or Bush band also available.
Perfect for weddings- we can provide anything from garden music while your guests are arriving, dinner music, through to more lively music for dancing later in the evening. Duo – 5 piece bands available- depending on your budget.
"I'm writing you this letter to express our appreciation and thanks for making our Wedding day so very special. It was so beautiful to walk down the aisle to an Irish harp playing in the background, it brought me back to thinking of my family and home for a short while."
"It sounded so beautiful and sweet it brought tears to my "wee Irish eyes.”
"we couldn't go to Ireland, so you brought Ireland to us."
"You turned our wedding day into an Irish celebration and have given us many happy memories to carry with us throughout our life."
“Heard you at the Rocks doing some Irish tunes. Your combination of whistle & guitar is fantastic. I have not heard the whistle played like this before - so fast & rhythmic, cheerful & hypnotic.”
“terrific-good live entertainment-toe tapping stuff!!”
“..thank you and your band for your beautiful & lively music on our wedding day. We still have some of the music, singing & dancing on our video so we will enjoy it for years to come.”
This is by no means a full list but it will give you a good idea of what I / we can do.
Irish / Celtic
Arran Boat
Briget O’Malley
Carolan’s Dream
Carolan’s welcome
Carolans ramble to Cashel
Carrickfergus
Clergy’s Lamentation
Danny boy
Dark Island, the
Fanny Power
Green Fields of Gaothdobhair
Green glens of Antrim
Hills of Glenorchy
Lady Marian (Clannad)
Mary from Dungloe
Morfa’r Frenhines (the Queen’s Marsh)
Only our rivers run free
Planxty Irwin
Rosbif Waltz
Saely Kelly
Shearin’s no for you, the
Si bheag, si mor
Six Ribbons
Slane
Religious (ancient Celtic hymn tunes)
Slane
Clonmacnoise
Moville
Classical
Canon – Pachelbel
Jupiter from the Planet Suite – Holst
Largo – from the New World – Dvorak
Modern Songs
Many modern songs can be adapted ….. I have had brides walk down the aisle to Eric Clapton, & Guns’n roses played on the harp.
Talk to me and we’ll see what is possible.
And many many more……….
Celtic Fire Repertoire (duo – 4 piece band)
Irish / Australian songs
Along The Road To Gundagai
Back home in Derry
Band Played Waltzing Matilda, The
Belfast Mill
Belfast Mill
Billy Of Tea
Black Is The Colour
Black Velvet Band
Blackleg Miner
Botany Bay
Bridget O’Malley
Brisbane Ladies
Brown eyed Girl
Catch me if you can
Click Go The Shears
Cockles & Mussels
Congress reels
Country Roads
Danny Boy
Denis O’Reilly
Diamantina Drover
Dirty old town
Down Under
Drover’s Dream. The
Fields of Athenry
Finnegan’s Wake
Flash Jack From Gundagai
Galway girl
Gypsy Rover
Holy Ground, The
Home Among The Gum Trees
I’ll tell me ma
Lachlan Tigers
Leaving of Liverpool
Lime Juice Tub
Moreton Bay
Mountain Dew
Overlander, The
Patsy Fagan
Poor Ned
Raggle Taggle Gypsies
Red Rose Café
Shores of Botany Bay
South Australia
Springtime It Brings On The Shearing
Star Of The County Down
Step it out Mary
Summer in Dublin
Streets of New York
Those were the Days
Waltzing Matilda
Whiskey In The Jar
Wild Colonial Boy
Wild Mountain Thyme
Wild Rover
Scottish Repertoire also available.
Australian Bush Dances – (all dances can be called)
Barn Dance
Chicken Dance
Drongo
Gallopede
Gay Gordons
Heel & Toe Polka
Macarena
Manchester Galop
Nutbush City Limits
Pride Of Erin
Queensland Backstep
Stockyards
Troika
Virginia Reel
Waltz Set
Waves Of Tory
Wombat Polka
And many many more...
Irish Ceili Tunes & Sets
Waltzes Set Dances
Pride of Erin
Pride of Erin
Planxtys
Fanny Power
Boda
Spancil Hll
Waves of Tory
Siege of Ennis
Walls of Limerick
Sweets of May
Dashing White Sergeant
Slip jigs Slides
Foxhunters
Butterfly O’Keefe’s 1
O’Keefe’s 2
Hornpipes Polkas
Boys of Bluehill
Off to California
King of the Faeries Maggie in the woods
Rakes
Rakes of Mallow
Jamie Allen
After battle of Aughrim
Jim Keefe’s
Tom McGown’s
Jigs Reels
Lark in the morning
Morrison’s
Lannigan’s
Blackthorn Stick
Saddle the pony
Tenpenny bit
Mist on the Mountain
Blarney Pilgrim
Dusty windowsills
Haste to the wedding
Cunnamulla
Turf Lodge
Athol Highlanders Wind that shakes
Sally Gardens
Far frae hame
Take her out
Spatter the dew
Fairy dance
Dancing Bear
Junior Crehan’s
Silver Spear
Maid behind the bar
Musical priest
St Anne’s
McMahon’s
Ireland in New York
Congress
Cooley’s
Popular Songs
50 ways to leave your lover
500 miles
Bad case of loving you
Bad moon rising
Better be home soon
Black velvet
Brown Eyed Girl
California Dreaming
Crazy little thing called love
Da do ron ron
Delilah
Down on the corner
Down Under
Folsom City blues
Forgiven not forgotten
Gambler, The
Gypsies, tramps & thieves
Have you ever seen the rain
Hello Mary Lou
Hit the Road Jack / Fever
Honky Tonk Women
Hot Stuff
I’m a believer
I saw her standing there
I still haven’t found …
I walk the line
Leaving on a jet plane
Let’s stick together
Letter, The
Livin’ la vida loca
Living next door to Alice
Lookin’ out my back door
Moondance
Mustang Sally
My Sharona
Oh Boy
One
Paddy’s Green Shamrock shore
Piano man
Proud Mary
Sitting on the dock of the bay
Solid Rock
Summer in Dublin
Sunny Afternoon
Sway
Sweet Caroline
Take me home country roads
Those were the days
Time Warp, The
Twist and shout
To her door
Toss the feathers (inst)
Under the boardwalk
Way out west
When I’m 64
Y.M.C.A.
And many many more...
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