Banjo Embargo

Banjo Embargo are an Edinburgh-based acoustic mash-up band for weddings, corporate events & parties Whatever your flavour they’ve got it covered!

About Banjo Embargo – professional acoustic band available in the UK & Europe

Banjo Embargo are an Edinburgh-based acoustic mash-ups band delivering party classics in an original and imaginative style. Once described as ‘Hayseed Dixie on speed with a serious chunk of Funk!’, they have been making fans wherever they play. We're regularly booked perform for weddings and events at Cray House & Esta

te in Blairgowrie, Scotland. They feature five-string banjo, chunky acoustic guitar, double bass, stripped down drums (sometimes even a suitcase) and brilliant four-part harmonies. This tweed-clad Edinburgh quintet have been entertaining crowds across Europe with their brilliantly imaginative take on some of pop’s most memorable tunes. Since their inception in 2007, their shows have included many gigs up and down the country and beyond including festivals, awards ceremonies, the 2014 Ryder Cup end party, Edinburgh Film Festival wrap parties, Edinburgh Book Festival launch parties, gigs for Visit Scotland, Fynefest, List Magazine's annual Festival Party, Club Vegas and The World Famous Spiegeltent along with over 400 other shows. Other notables are gigs at the old Marquee Club in Soho, London, a cocktail boat on Loch Lomond, an awards ceremony in Malta and a pool party in Ibiza. They've also played many private parties too including one for the cast of BBC's Eastenders and another for fashion designer Jenny Packham. With 5 string banjo, acoustic guitar, double bass, stripped-down drum kit and 4 vocalists, some really do say that their bluegrass-funk interpretations are better than the originals. Their eclectic and diverse blend of mash-ups include tunes by Louis Prima, Radiohead, Daft Punk, The Prodigy, Metalica, Panjabi MC’s Knightrider remix of ‘Mundian To Bach Ke’, a bluegrass souped version of Dizzy Rascal’s ‘Dance Wiv Me’, New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’ and ‘Jump Around’ by House of Pain. Our set list also includes Donna Summer's 'I Feel Love', a high-octane version of Duran Duran’s ‘Girls on Film’, a stylophone-powered version of 'The Final Countdown', The Beastie Boys’ ‘Intergalactic’, Beyonce’s ‘Crazy in Love’, and Nelly’s bluegrass-ed ‘Hot In Herre’. Here are just some of the locations where we have been booked by clients on FixTheMusic for weddings and events...

Cottiers Theatre, Hyndland Street, Glasgow, UK
Cray House & Estate, Blairgowrie, UK
Balbirnie House, Glenrothes, Markinch, UK

So if you're looking to hire the finest modern bluegrass pop covers band UK has to offer, get in touch with us.