Bob is based in Biggar, Central Scotland but can travel further afield for events including Europe
Bob Ferguson is highly experienced performer who specialises in Corporate events. Bob has performed for twenty years at many of the most prestigious event venues in Scotland. These include Edinburgh and Stirling Castle. St Andrews Fairmont Hotel, Balmoral Hotel, Crieff Hydro, The Sheraton and hundreds more. Guests have been delighted with the colourful tartans he wears that are more like a modern Jamie from Outlander, Rob Roy, or Braveheart.
Bob is a seasoned performer with a powerful voice suited to Scottish and Celtic Music. Versatility is a keyword in Bob's approach to all events. Whatever the situation, Bob can adapt. With the experience, Bob has using wireless packs for voice and instruments any organiser will be assured that the audience will be entertained as he roams around the stage and among audiences. At locations where there is no power for PA equipment. Bob has roamed around country paths, halls, corridors and from room to room at events. He has joined processions and performed at entrances to events also. Whatever the situation, Bob will be comfortable and highly adaptable.
Bob has also performed and still does with larger bands around Europe and has been a full-time musician for twenty years. Over the years Bob has performed folk only sets or sets with Scottish, Irish, Country, 60's, 70's, some mainstream music and Bob even performs and teaches a few ceilidh dances to songs he sings. Bob is also willing to learn songs, especially for your event if a client has special requests. Bob is also a fine songwriter and can add his original songs in if requested. Slow sets, medium sets or fast-paced sets or a simple background performance all fine with Bob.
The one boast from Bob is that every venue he has performed at re-booked him and his experience also includes Festivals, theatres, folk clubs, TV and radio.
Looking for a ceilidh dance? Bob has you covered!
Bob can now call about 5 dances at the moment, as well as sing and play guitar or banjo. That way dancers can sing and dance at the same time and also those not dancing can still be part of the night. For example;- Gay Gordons can be danced to Killiecrankie/ Mharies Wedding with lyrics, and so on. At the moment Bob can call Gay Gordons, Dashing White Sergeant, Flying Scotsman, Orcadian Strip the Willow, and St Bernards Waltz, and is working on more.
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Full repertoire
Scottish Folk
Ally Bally bee - Traditional
Aye Waukin o - Traditional
Ca the ewes - Traditional
Caledonia – Dougie McLean
Dark Island - Traditional
Every River (Runrig)
Flower of Scotland – Roy Williamson, The Corries
Gallawa hills - Traditional
Green grow the rashes o - Traditional
Greenfields of France – Eric Bogle
I am Sailing – Rod Stewart
I’m a Rover – Traditional
Jock o Hazeldean - Traditional
Leezie Lindsay - Traditional
Loch Lomond – Traditional
Loch Tay Boat Song - Traditional
Macpherson’s Rant - Traditional
Mingulay Boat Song - Traditional
Misty Mountain Lady – Gordon Menzies - Gaberlunzie
Mormond Braes - Traditional
Mull of Kintyre - Paul McCartney
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean - Traditional
Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen - Traditional
Parting Glass - Traditional
Peggy Gordon - Traditional
Rattling Bog - Traditional
Roving Journeyman - Traditional
The Portree Kid – Bill Hill/Corries
Roses of Prince Charlie - Traditional
Under the Scotsman’s Kilt – Bryan Bowers
Waltzing Matilda – Eric Bogle
Westlin Winds – Dick Gaughan
Willies gane tae Melville Castle - Traditional
Auld Lang Syne - Traditional
Ye Jacobines by Name - Traditional
Ready for the Storm – Dougie McLean
This Love will Carry – Dougie McLean
Leaving of Liverpool - Traditional
All Around My Hat – Steeleye Span
Bonnie Bessie Logan – Traditional
Both Sides the Tweed – Gaughan/ Traditional
Broom o the Cowdenknowes – Traditional
Catch the Wind - Donovan
Colliers’s Way - Ceolbeg
Dirty Old Town – Ewan McColl
Drunken Sailor – Traditional
Ettrick Lady - Traditional
Farewell tae the Haven – Davy Steele
Feel so Near – Dougie McLean
Final Trawl – Archie Fisher
Freedom Come all Ye – Ewan McColl
Gypsy Rover - Traditional
Haul Away Joe – Traditional
Highland Widows Lament - Traditional
Jamie Raeburn - Traditional
Killiecrankie - Traditional
Leave Her Johny Leave Her – Stan Rogers
Massacre of Glencoe – Jim Mclean
Mhairies Wedding - Traditional
Nancy Whisky - Traditional
Queen of all Argyle – Andy M Stewart
Reconciliation – Ron Kavanna
Schooldays Over – Ewan McColl
Scots wha hae - Traditional
Shoals of Herring – Ewan McColl
Skye Boat Song - Traditional
Smuggler – Ian McCalman
Parcel of Rogues - Traditional
Flowers of the Forest - Traditional
The Kings Shilling – Ian Sinclair
The Rose of Allendale - Traditional
The Water is Wide – Traditional
A Man's a Man – Traditional
Tramps and Hawkers – Traditional
Sound the Pibroch – Traditional/The Corries
Wild Mountain Thyme – McPeake Family/ Traditional
Irish Songs
Athenrye – Pete St. John
Avondale - Traditional
Boston Rose – Liam Reilly
Carrickfergus - Traditional
Fairytale of New York - The Pogues
Red Rose Café – Pierre Kartner
Galway Girl – Steve Earl
Galway Shawl - Traditional
Irish Rover - Traditional
Isn't it Grand Boys - Traditional
Maids When You're Young - Traditional
Moonshiner - Traditional
Poor Paddy on the Railway - Traditional
Raglan Road - Peter Kavanagh / The Dubliners
Rocky Road to Dublin - Traditional
Seven Drunken Nights - Traditional
She Moved Through the Fair – Traditional / Sinead O’Connor
Song for Ireland – Phil and John Colclough
The Holy Ground - Traditional
Rare ould Times – Pete St John / Dublin City Ramblers
Town I Loved so Well– Phil Coulter
When You Were Sweet Sixteen – James Thornton
Whisky in the Jar - Traditional
Leaving of Liverpool - Traditional
All for Me Grog - Traditional
As I Roved Out - Traditional
Back Home in Derry – Bobby Sands / Christ Moore
Banks of the Roses - Traditional
Biddy Reilly - Traditional
Black Velvet Band - Traditional
Bold o Donahue - Traditional
Bunch of Thyme - Traditional
Cliffs of Doneen - Traditional
Curragh o Kildare - Traditional
Danny Boy - Traditional
Fiddlers green - Traditional
Flight of Earls – Liam Reilly
Four Green Fields – Tommy Makem / The Clancy Brothers
Hand Me Down Bible – Bill Martin/Phil Coulter / Dubliners
Hills of Isle Au Haut – Gordon Bok / Tommy Maken
Home Boys Home - Traditional
Isle of Hope – Brendan graham / Mary Duff
Sally Gardens - Traditional
It's a Long Way to Tipperary - Traditional
Lakes of Coolfin - Traditional
MacAlpines Fusiliers - Traditional
Mary of Dungloe - Traditional
Molly Maguire’s - Traditional
Monto - Traditional
Muirshin Duirkin - Traditional
My Lovely Rose of Clare - Traditional
Nancy Whisky - Traditional
New York Girls - Traditional
Only Our Rivers – Micky MacConnel / Dubliners
Quare Bungle Rye - Traditional
Red Haired Mary - Traditional
Rising of the Moon - Traditional
Rosin the Bow - Traditional
Some Say the Devil is Dead - Traditional
Spancil Hill - Traditional
Spanish lady - Traditional
Star of the County Down - Traditional
The Mermaid - Traditional
Waxies Dargle - Traditional
Weila Wiela - Traditional
Wild Colonial Boy - Traditional
Green and Red of Mayo – Saw Doctors
Mixed Folk
Annie’s Song – John Denver
April - Simon and Garfunkel
Black is the colour - Traditional
Blowing in the wind – Bob Dylan
Bright eyes – Simon and Garfunkel
By the time I get to phoenix – Jimmy Webb / Glen Campbell
Catch the wind - Donovan
City of New Orleans – Steve Goodman / Willie Nelson
Are you going to San Fransisco – John Philips / Scott McKenzie
From Clare to hear – Ralph McTell
Closest thing to crazy – Katie Melua
Early morning rain – Gordon Lightfoot / John Denver
Fennario – Traditional
Fields of gold - Sting
First of May – Bee Gees
First time ever I saw your face – Ewan McColl
Fog on the Tyne - Lindisfarne
Galveston – Jimmy Webb / Glen Campbell
I will wait – Mumford and sons
If I had a hammer – Pete Seeger/Lee Hayes
I’ll fly away – Albert E. Brumley
Working man – Rita McNeil
Its good to see you – Allan Taylor
John o dreams – Bill Caddick – Christy Moore
Jolene – Dolly Parton
Jug of punch – James McPeake/Peter Kennedy
Leaving on a jet plane - John Denver
Liverpool Lou – Dominic Behan
Lord of the Dance - Traditional
Meet Me on the Corner - Lindisfarne
Michael row the boat ashore – Peter. Paul, and Mary.
He’s got the whole world – Alan W. Livingston
Oh Susanna – Stephen Foster / Allan Taylor
Pay me my money down - Traditional
Peaceful easy feeling – Jack Tempchin / The Eagles
Roll on the day – Allan Taylor
Not a matter of pride – Mike Silver
Ruby Tuesday – Rolling Stones
Saved by the bell – Bee Gees
Scarborough fair – Simon and Garfunkel
May it be - Enya
Seems it never rains in Southern California – Albert Hammond
Songdance – Alan Taylor
Sound of silence – Simon and Garfunkel
South Australia - Traditional
Steal away – Phil Coulter
Streets of London – Ralph McTell
Summertime - Traditional
The Boxer – Simon and Garfunkel
The carnival is over – The Seekers
Day of the jackal - Lindisfarne
The Dutchman – John Prine
The Gambler – Kenny Rodgers
The hanging tree – Suzanne Collins/Lumineers
The lady came from Baltimore – Tim Hardin – Johny Cash
The times they are a changing – Bob Dylan
There’s another train – Pete Morten
Those were the days – melody traditional Russian/ Lyrics Gene Rashkin
Absent friends – Keith Hancock
Where have all the flowers gone – Bob Dylan
Whisky on a Sunday - Traditional
Wild goose – Kate Rusby
Windmills – Alan Bell – Tommy Makem
Yellow is the colour - Donovan
Bricklayer song – Pat Cooksey – Corries - Dubliners
This is the life – Amy MacDonald
Greensleeves – Traditional
Country
Achy breaky heart – Billy Ray Cyrus
Applejack – Dolly Parton
By the time I get to Phoenix - Jimmy Webb – Glen Campbell
City of New Orleans - Steve Goodman – Willie Nelson
Country roads – John Denver
Cotton eyed joe - Rednex
Don’t know much about love – Don Williams
Pick a bale of cotton - Traditional
Skip to my Lou - Traditional
Cottonfields – lead Belly
Coward of the county – Kenny Rogers
Dance the night away – The Mavericks
End of the line – Traveling WIlburys
Everybody’s talking at me - Harry Nilsson
Friends in low places – Garth Brooks
Gambler – Kenny Rogers
Gentle on my mind – Josh Hartford – Glen Campbell
Have you ever seen the rain – Creedence Clearwater Revival
I recall a gypsy woman – Don Willaims
If tomorrow never comes – Garth Brooks
If I said you had a beautiful body
I’m just a country boy – Don Williams
It's five-o-clock somewhere – Moose/Brown - Alan Jackson
I’m learning fly – Traveling Wilburys
It must be love – Don Williams
Lucille – Kenny Rogers
Lying in the arms of Mary - Smokie
Man of constant sorrow - Traditional
Midnight Special – Creedence Clearwater Revival
People are crazy – Bradock/Jones – Troy Burrington
Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell
Ring of Fire – Johny Cash
Rocky Mountain High – John Denver
Roll in my sweet baby’s arms - Traditional
Ruby – Kenny Rogers
Some broken hearts never mend – Don Williams
Song of the south – Alan Jackson
Streets of Laredo - Traditional
Stumbling in – Chapman/Chin – Suzie Quatro
Sweet home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Take it easy - Eagles
The Dance – Garth Brooks
The grass is blue – Dolly Parton
The lady came from Baltimore – Tim Hardin
Till the rivers all run dry – Don Williams
Wagon wheel – Old Crow Music Show
When I’m dead and gone – McGuiness Flint
When you say nothing at all – Overstreet/Schlitz – Alison Kruass
Working 9 to 5 – Dolly Parton
You were always on my mind – Elvis Presley
Modern
A thousand years – Christina Perri
Alice - Smokie
Bright side of life – Monty Pythons
La Bamba – Ritchie Valens
Ass on fire – Speed Gang
Bad moon rising – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Proud Mary – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Big yellow taxi – Joni Mitchell
Bits and pieces – Dave Clark five
Bring him home - Les Miserables
My brown eyed girl – Van Morrison
Can’t buy me love - Beatles
Can’t help falling in love - Elvis
Chasing cars – Snow Patrol
City of New Orleans – Steve Goodman / Willie Nelson
American pie – Don Mclean
Don’t worry be happy – Bobby McFerrin
Do wah diddy – Manfred Mann
Don’t cry for me Argentina – Tim Rice
Edelweisse - Traditional
Eight days a week - Beatles
End of the line – Travelling Wilburys
Everybody’s talking at me – Harry Nilsson
Ferry cross the Mersey – Gerry and the Pacemakers
Glad all over – Dave Clark Five
Goodbye my love – Mary Hopkins
Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen
Have I the right – The Honeycombs
Hello again – Neil Diamond
Hero – Enrique Iglesias
Hippy hippy shake – Chan Romero
Honky tonk woman – Rolling Stones
I have a dream - ABBA
Oh bla di - Beatles
Candle in the wind – Elton John
I hear you knocking – Dave Edmunds
I love to boogie – T-rex
I started a joke – Bee Gees
I want to hold your hand - Beatles
I’ve gotta get a message to you – Bee gees
I’m into something good – Hermins Hermits
I’m just a country boy – Don Williams
I’m too sexy/ 500 miles melody – Right Said Fred/Proclaimers
I’m yours – Jason Mraz
In the summertime – Mungo Jerry
It must be love – Don Williams
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