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Heelie
goleerie
is ceilidh band formed around fiddle player Eilidh Steel and guitarist Mark Neal. With many years of experience playing both for ceilidhs and concerts they bring huge experience to any event with great driving Scottish music along with an experienced caller should people need to learn the dances.
The name
Heeliegoleerie
comes from the Scots where it means dazed and confused…something which often
describes the state of the band's state of mind.
Heeliegoleerie was
formed at the 2003 Edinburgh Fiddle Festival - although it was an informal
session, the tunes flowed as if the band had been practicing for weeks .
Originally the band included fiddle player Ruairidh MacMillan and piper Alex
Urquhart-Taylor, however other commitments meant that they were not able to
stay.
As a trio the
band has since gone on as a trio to considerable acclaim.
The most recent
success being
winning
the
2006 Danny Kyle
Open Stage at the Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow.
Heeliegoleerie is made up of
Mark Neal -
Cittern/Guitar/Vocals
Eilidh Steel -
Fiddle
Allan MacDonald -
Pecussion/Drums
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Eilidh is from Helensburgh, Argyll and
Bute and has
been playing fiddle since the age of 6. She completed a BA
in Scottish music in Glasgow in the summer of 2006. As part of various groups Eilidh has toured in
Scotland,
England,
Ireland,
Russia,
Romania, Egypt,
Denmark and
Germany.
Eilidh is a prolific
composer and many of her tunes are played by the band. She also does some teaching with The Scots Music group and Pilrig fiddlers in Edinburgh and has taught in many other places including the
Helensburgh and Lomond Junior Fiddlers, Edinburgh Fiddle Festival, Lomond Folk Festival and
Celtic Connections.
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Originally from
East Kilbride, Mark has lived
in
Edinburgh
since moving there to study for a physics degree in 1993.
He also plays
in the ceilidh band Teannaich
,
and in addition to playing Scottish folk music he has a strong interest in many other styles including rock, funk and jazz.
Mark has a PhD in Musical
Acoustics from Edinburgh
University
,
and in the ever shrinking time when not playing or teaching guitar he runs the Edinburgh recording studio "The Sonic Lodge". Mark is also an experienced guitar teacher having taught at many festival and workshops including The Scots Music Group, Edinburgh Fiddle Festival, Tinto summer School and The Youth Gatherin.
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