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Folk Band in Cairns, QLD
- Travels up to 300 km
- From $660 to $3,500
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Available on Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
Batten down your hatches and prepare to weigh anchor!
Whiskey Boat, a FNQ rock shanty band, lures you like a sirens call. The lasses from Whiskey Boat, and their token manservant bassist, ensures a toe tapping experience with spilling harmonies, ballads of old, and heart starter jigs.
Whiskey Boat, with their nautical theme, have created catchy rhythms, soaring flute and tin whistle, vibrant violin, that weave amongst three-part harmonies.
Telling tales of love and loss, war, strife, redemption and sorrow, sisters Lauren and Melissa Butler write piratey jigs and ballads to interweave with folk indie rock classics.
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A fantastic night of live music with fun and audience participation with a mix of covers and originals throughout the show.
Our Bush dance events are a lively interactive and fun experience filled with traditional Australian country folk music including jigs, reels and waltzes. The band will play specific tunes for different dances like The progressive barn dance, Heel and Toe Polka, Cotton Eye Joe Circle dance, Nutbush, Queensland Back step, Gypsy Tap and the Pride of Erin. They're a great way to immerse yourself in the country's culture and enjoy a memorable community event.
These are the categories of entertainment or other services offered by Whiskey Boat.
We can provide own PA and lighting.
Here are some covers you may recognize and we also perform our own original compositions.
Fire down Below (Whiskey Boat)
Ship hit the reef (Whiskey Boat)
Down by the sea (Whiskey Boat)
Whiskey in a jar (dubliners)
Good fortune (PJ Harvey)
Skyeboat song (Outlander Netflix Series soundtrack)
California dreaming (Mummas and the Pappas)
Bad moon rising (Credence)
Scarborough fair (Simon and Garfunkel)
Dreaming my dreams (The Cranberries)
Drunken Sailor (Trad)
White flag (Dido)
Final countdown (Europe)
Wolf (First Aid Kit)
So cold in Ireland (The Cranberries)
Lighthouse (The Waifs)
Coming round the mountain (trad)
John Kanaka (Skinny Lister)
Under a violet moon (Blackmores Night)
The Wellerman (Nathan Evans)
Johnny Jump up (Christy Moore)
Cruel sister (Pentangle)
Wayfaring stranger (Emmylou Harris)
House of the rising sun (the Animals)
I've been working on the railroad (Trad )
Rye Whiskey (The Pirate Charles)
Dumb things ( Paul Kelly)
Click go the Shears (Slim Dusty)
Home among the gum trees (John Williamson)
South Australia (Fishermans Friend)
Ballad of Cobb and Co (Lionel Long)
Irish washer woman (instrumental)
Bound for Botany Bay
My Bonnie
Belle of Belfast (The Irish Rovers)
Nutbush (Tina Turner)
Trio right through to 6 piece band, we are flexible and adaptable to our clients needs.
Whiskey Boat have personal public liability insurance