Threepenny Bit, the Hampshire based Ceilidh and Busking Band!

Who Are We?

A young and vibrant addition to the folk scene, Threepenny Bit folk and ceilidh band was formed from an unlikely combination of student-types in Southampton in 2010. Consisting of suitcase percussion, fiddle, flute, guitar and clarinet, they play a wide range of Irish, English, Cornish, Breton and Scottish diddly-dee music with a hint of klezmer!

Threepenny Bit set the trend for “Half Price Busking” in the Summer of 2011, when they embarked upon a busking campaign to spread folk music to the four corners of Southern England. This included playing at the Winchester Hat Fair, St Mary Bourne Festival, Sidmouth Folk Festival and obtaining a busking license for Covent Garden.

What We Can Provide

Threepenny Bit play for private functions and ceilidhs in the South of England. The band also has a caller, who shouts out the dance steps for the ceilidh, to have you up on your feet and dancing the night away!

I defy anyone to sit still while listening to Threepenny Bit! Their playing has the essential spring and rhythm of the true ceilidh band. Get up and dance!

~M. Jeavans, review from Amazon MP3

This music is so beautifully upbeat and joyous, you can feel your mood lift instantly once Threepenny Bit start... Fabulous :)

~"KK", review from Amazon MP3

picked this album up at a street gig of the band in winchester,they blew me away,fantastic no stop fun buy the album and if you get the chance to see them its an absolute must 10 out of 10.

~Jeffery Gomer, review from iTunes