The Glenhoulachan Midgie Club Ceilidh Band was formed over 20 years ago when Gordon Ross met John MacGregor and Billy MacPhee at the Wallace Day Celebrations in Elderslie, Scotland. John and Billy were with one folk band and Gordon with another. They discovered for the first time that they all lived within 10 minutes of each other in Dumbarton. In the case of Gordon and John they found that they lived in the same street, about 30 metres apart!

The guys formed “The Midgies” to cover a few local gigs that had been thrown up by the demise of Billy and John’s previous band. The line up proved to be very popular and successful and so here we are, literally hundreds of gigs later still struttin’ our stuff.

In recent times Billy emigrated to South Uist, the land of his forebears to work for “Hebridean Jewellery” leaving Gordon and John to determine what to do with The Midgie’s”.The decision was taken to carry on. Billy’s place would be filled from a small pool of musician’sdependant upon the nature of the gig or event. As a consequence “The Midgies” are as popular as ever taking their music and personalities all over the world. 

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