Song. Dance. Eye candy.

And toe-tapping Old-World music from around the globe. What more could you ask from your perfect party band?

Want to pump energy into your most routine events?

Catapult your community gatherings into instant public attention?

Smash the ice at every function and get your guests up and dancing? Swell the ranks at your parades and festivals? Make your name as the supreme host in town? Turn your wedding, birthday, or any other party into a true occasion to remember?

Enter Toot-a-Lute. We’re just your ordinary crazy costumed musicians, toting the weirdest collection of instruments you never saw together before. You get about seven bands for the price of one, because none of us does only one thing. The costumes alone should keep people staring for an hour or three.

Men in lace and frock coats, women in all-out Renaissance and Regency dresses, all singing, dancing, and playing like there’s no tomorrow. We come bearing a slinky black saxophone, a button accordion, a fiddle, two clarinets, a mini tuba, a mandolin, tin whistles, and a bewildering variety of drums and percussion instruments.

Two matched dance leaders will lead you through easy-to-learn dances from another time and another world. Singers of every flavour, including fugitives from some pretty famous choirs and operas, will turn your event from satisfactory to smashing.

You can’t categorize the music we play. Old-world music from every corner of the globe, folk dance tunes that gets toes tapping and people hopping, romantic waltzes, cheery polkas, Irish country songs, simple yet graceful medieval court dances you can learn to do in two minutes, hauntingly lovely original melodies and a few oddball piece for unique occasions – we have something for everyone!

Amplification? We don’t need no reekin’ amplification! We can play outside with no electric power, under tents in the rain, in little coffee houses, big festivals, marching in parades, and standing on our heads (but that’s extra).

You’ll never be forgotten when you have Toot-a-Lute. To book us, e-mail Oliver at info@tootalute.org, or call 604-931-2050.