More about us

Like many, we started with (and still enjoy playing) a “Spanish drunken Danny rover of the County Down in the jar” repertoire, we have nevertheless constantly broadened our musical spectrum: Celtic, Flanders, Scandinavia, klezmer, medieval music, French chanson, Eastern Europe, ska, Balkanbeat, kleinkunst, singer-songwriter, blues, we take whatever we like, put it in our cauldron and whoever says it’s not “orthodox” or “as it should be” gets a smack bottom… We play an approximately 2/3-1/3 mix of our own tunes sung in English, French or Dutch, and of mistreated traditionals.

Ceilí, I guess most of you know, is an Irish word for a party with traditional dance music. Moss was the nickname of Alain Mossiat, boss of the pub “L”Eblouissant”, in Namur, where we first learned to deal with stage fright, back in the early 90s.

Bands members

Matthieu Collard (fiddle)
Stéphane Jalhay (guitar, banjo, mandola)
Laurent Leemans (lead vocals, guitars, percussion)
Thibaud Misson (double bass)
Jérémy Pinera (drums, percussion)
Yves Van Elst (transverse flute, pipes, backing vocals).

They already suffered us (and most survived...)

Festivals: Hoorndol 2009 (Moerkerke), Celtic Night 2009 (Geluwe), Na Fir Bolg 2009 (Vorselaar), Nova Villa 2009 (Noville-les-Bois), Trolls & Légendes 2009 (Mons), Deerlycke Folkfestival 2008, Les Anthinoises 2008, Trottoir Fanfaar 2008 (Ghent), Nuits Celtiques 2008 (Attert), Rencontres Interceltiques de St-Ghislain 2007, Schots Weekend 2007 (Bilzen), Zomer van Antwerpen 2007 (Zandvliet), Folk Dassenaarde 2007 (Diest), Celts & Kilts Day 2007 (Grimbergen), Picnic Festival 2006 & 2007 (Namur), Musiques et Traditions 1999 & 2004 (Marsinne-Héron), Bruisend Balegem 2004 (Balegem)

Support-acts for: Jaune Toujours, AedO, La Varda, Camping Sauvach, The Paperboys, Borrachoz a.o.

Pubs and other venues: CC René Magritte (Lessines), Het Podium (Geel), De Egel (Hasselt), Folkbal intiem (Gooik), 3 x La Porte Noire (Brussels), Kinky Star (Ghent), Magasin 4 (Brussels), Celtic Ireland (Ostend & Liege), O'Fiach Irish pub (Lier), VUB Kultuurkaffee (Brussels), Het Zevende Zegel (Kluisbergen-Ruien), 4 x CA3V (Dhuy), 2 x O'Carolan's Irish Pub (Bergen-op-Zoom, Netherlands), Candela's Muziekpromenade (Antwerp), GC De Kroon (Brussels), Ye Olde Inn (Schoten), 2 x Kitty O'Shea's (Brussels), Cirque Divers (Liège), James Joyce Pub (Brussels)

Among many others…