Weddings & Parties around Tortworth Gloucestershire

"Tortworth, Wotton-under-Edge, South Gloucestershire " GL12 8HH

this enormous venue, which I must admit would remind me, on a dark rainy night with thunder and lightning flashing around it, of a house from a Hammer horror film, but on the sunny summers day it is absolutely magnificent. It's formal gardens with circular books hedged beds is perfect for a string quartet playing during the drinks reception. It sweeping staircase down which the bride might wish to send, has excellent acoustics for a string quartet. Complete with orangery and ceremony rooms it can accommodate jazz bands, string quartets or ceilidhs and barn dances. However, they also erected marquees in the grounds and this is where we have often performed ceilidhs and barn dances.

Birmingham Medical Students' Graduation Celebration The Ringerike Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4003.2

Another year’s graduates of the Birmingham Medical School Final Year Dinner The Ringerike Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4003.2

Aluminium Federation Annual Dinner The BS String Quartet ref: 2513

Electrical Industries Charity Ball Gloucester branch The SC Party Band ref: 6475

Wedding 81Ringerike 5 piece Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4003.1

Wedding The BS String Quartet ref: 2513

Wedding The EL Jazz Band ref: 3009.1

Berkeley

Berkeley Castle, built in the I2th century, stands in lovely grounds in a tranquil town where the liveliest noise comes from the hounds of the Berkeley Hunt in the kennels close by. In the park there are red and fallow deer and wild geese. The Berkeley family have occupied the castle continuously since the i2th century. Edward II was murdered in the dungeons in 1327.

The parish church has a superb east window of nine lights, filled with pictures of Christ healing the sick—a memorial to Edward Jenner, discoverer of vaccination, who was born in Berkeley and returned there before his death in 1823. He is buried in the chancel.

Berkeley is the centre of the Vale of Berkeley—thousands of acres of flat land stretching for 15 miles on the east bank of the Severn. Little watercourses form criss-cross patterns, with lanes crossing them on stone humpbacked bridges beside meadows of grazing cows. A canal passes through the Vale from Gloucester to Sharpness—a vital i y-mile waterway which links Gloucester with the sea.

"Berkeley Castle Berkeley Gloucs " GL13 9BQ

Wedding The MS Flute & String Quartet ref: 2001.2

Wedding The SD Folk Band

Wedding The Ringerike 4 piece Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4003.3

Tan House Farm, Ham, Berkeley, Gloucestershire. GL13 9LP

Wedding - The SD Folk Band

Westbury-on-Severn

Canals bordered by yew hedges string together the lakes at Westbury Court where the Dutch water garden, laid out between 1696 and 1705, is the only remaining one in England.

The Annexe, Newerne Street, Lydney,Gloucestershire. GL15 5RA

a small venue in a row of traditional properties.

Golden Wedding Celebration The OP Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4303.5

Lydney Model Village, Lydney, Glosc. GL15 6BU

Wedding Guitar/vocalist - Peter ref: 5617

"The Common Woolaston Nr Lydney" GL15 6NU

60th Birthday Party The RR Covers Duo ref: 5888

The Coach House, Mork, St Briavels, Lydney, Gloucesterhsire. GL15 6QH

60th Birthday party The BA Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4417

"The Castle, St Briavels, Gloucestershire, GL15 6RG

the castle's is an English Heritage property and dates from the early 12th century, when it was an important Royal Castle on the borders of Wales and the Forest of Dean, which at that time was a royal hunting forest.

50th Birthday celebration The Ringerike 4 piece Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4003.3

Wyeside, The Hudnalls, St Briavels, Gloucs GL15 6RT

Wedding reception The WB Barn Dance Band / Ceilidh Band

"Etloe, Nr Blakeney, Glos" GL154AX

Wedding Midsummer String Quartet ref: 2001.1

"Hatherley lane Cheltenham ,Gloucestershire" GL156PN

Wedding 93Ringerike 5 piece Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4003.1

"Berry Hill, Nr Coleford, Gloucestershire" GL16

25th Wedding Anniversary 32The EL Jazz Band ref: 3009.1

Broadwell, GL16 7EG

21st birthday The Ringerike Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4003.2

Speech House Hotel Coleford Forest of Dean Gloucestershire GL16 7EL

complete with statue of Stagg on the porch above the main door, and plant trained up the outside wall, this hotel impresses. Has plenty of room within the venue the jazz bands or string quartets to play during civil wedding ceremonies or during the wedding breakfast, and although ceilidhs and barn dances can be held in large rooms, they also correct stripey marquee in the grounds which is excellent for the evening dance.

Wedding The Ringerike Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4003.2

Clearwell Castle, Clearwell, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Coleford" GL16 8LG

not far from the fascinating caves (which really ought to be licensed for weddings, rather like a similar set of French caves that I visited some years ago, perhaps it is?) in the small town of Clearwell. This is a magnificent castle with enclosed grounds in which our quartets are played many times. Fortunately there are plenty of trees to shelter under from the strong sun. If the weather is unkind, after the ceremony (string quartet normally plays at the back of the ceremony room near to where the bride enters), and the main reception room is perfect for the drinks reception with plenty of room for the string quartet. We've held Kayleigh's in the same room, and also in the cellars (which I believe were once a recording studio), which are dark and atmospheric and just right for a barn dance.

Wedding 81Ringerike 5 piece Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4003.1

Wedding - Benjamin and Emma The LR Barn Dance/ Ceilidh Band ref: 6218.1

wedding The Ringerike Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4003.2

wedding Midsummer String Quartet ref: 2001.1

Wedding The Ringerike 4 piece Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4003.3

Wedding (Ceremony and drinks reception) The MS Flute & String Quartet ref: 2001.2

"All Saints Road, May Hill," GL17 0NP

Newent Hockey Club Social event The Ringerike Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4003.2

Hayes Farm, Pool Hill, Newent, Glos GL18 1LN

Village Barn dance The Ringerike Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4003.2

Castle Fruit Farm, Castle Trump, Newent, GL18 1LS

Wedding The STC 5 piece Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4318.1

"Tirley, GLOS, " GL19 4EU

SURPRISE 70th Birthday The Ringerike Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4003.2

Worcestershire - Adjacent to Drinker's End GL19 4ND

Wedding The Licketysplit American Barn Dance Band ref: 4814.1

 

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