Meet the band

Robyn Chicot playing melodeon

Robyn Wallace

Robyn is a melodion player and clogger. They also play in the Rosie Hood band, and teach at the Folk Factory – an after school club for young folkies.

Their liking for cheery music pulls the rest of the band back from the brink of darkness.

Patrick Rose

Paddy is a guitarist and singer, known for his driving rhythmic approach to guitar accompaniment and general lover of the nonsense that a ceilidh can provide. He has introduced the band to many songs about seafaring and other stirring things.

Hw is also a ceilidh caller and performs as a solo artist.

Patrick Rose playing guitar

We’re delighted that we booked Bellamira Ceilidh Band for our wedding. The communication and preparation was very easy, and it’s clear they were committed to providing the performance we wanted.
The music was brilliant, with a great energy that carried on to the dance floor.

Craig, Wedding, June 2023
Mina Neilson playing drums

Mina Nielsen

Mina is our drummer, keeper of the groove, and provider of fairy lights and other glittery stage things.

She is also a sound engineer, and in other incarnations she playes pipes and whistles.

Josie Wexler

Josie is a fiddle player and singer. She particularly likes music that is intollerably sad, although for ceilidhs she just about manages to cheer up a bit.

She also plays in the ceilidh band Bobbing Joe and plays traditional music from France and Sweden, American old time and Klezmer, and writes her own (sad) songs.

Josie Wexler playing fiddle