McQuoids Offering Bushband

  • Bush Band in Canberra, ACT

  • Travels up to 200 km
  • From $1,100 to $2,000
  • Available on Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

McQuoid's Offering has been serving the Canberra region with bushdances and Australian songs for around 40 years. We sing Australian traditional ballads, country, folk and some iconic pop/rock. We've performed at weddings, funerals, private parties, churches, schools, fundraisers, and community and commercial events. We will do volunteer and special price dances/performances in some cases.

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For bushdances we provide a live band with a caller. We will work with your program and are willing to negotiate a price that will make your event a success. We aim to ensure everyone has fun. For entertainment, we provide live music for around 60 to 90 minutes with a mix of Australian bush ballads, with some folk, country, Australiana and iconic pop/rock.


These are the categories of entertainment or other services offered by McQuoids Offering Bushband.


We require unloading access to the performance site. Access to power. Shade during the day. A place to park our cars. We appreciate some refreshment if present over meal times or for longer gigs.


Songs: Advance Australia Fair/Ryebuck, And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda, Augathella Station, Aussie Mozzie, Ballad of 1891, Banks of the Condamine, Beneath the Southern Cross, Black Velvet Band, Botany Bay, Click Go the Shears, Death Row, Diamantina Drover, Don't Ever, Don't Ever Step on a Snake, Drover's Dream, Erin Shore, Eumarella Shore, Flash Jack, For a Short Time , From St Kilda to Kings Cross , Great South Land, Holy Grail , Home Among the Gum Trees, I am Australian, I was only Nineteen, If I Could Start Today Again, Lachlan Tigers, Lights on the Hill , Lime Juice Tub, Little Boy Lost, Miner's Washing , Moreton Bay, Nips are getter Bigger, One Perfect Day , Overlander, Pub With No Beer, Razor's Edge, Real Hope, Redback on the Toilet Seat, Road to Gundagai, Shores of Botany Bay, Sounds of Then, South Australia, Streets of Forbes, Ten Thousand Miles, Tenterfield Saddler, Throw Your Arms Around Me , To Her Door , True Blue, Waltzing Matilda, Wild Colonial Boy, With a Swag on My Shoulder.
Dances: Barn Dance, Bush Jive, Chicken Dance, Currarong Promenade, Drongo, Eightsome Reel, Flying Doctor, Flying Pieman, Heel and Toe Polka, Hokey Pokey, Kangaroo Hop, Madman’s Woodyard, Mexican Hat Dance, Ned Kelly, Numerella Jig , Nutbush Line Dance, Oslo Waltz, OXO Reel, Pride of Erin, Queensland Backstep, Road to Gundagai, Stockyards, Strip the Willow, Troika, Waltz Country Dance, Waves of Bondi, Zigeuner Waltz.



To be provided by venue.