Line up

Jan Osinski is the band's accordion player and has many years experience performing as a solo player. It is his playing talent which forms the main backbone of the band. Jan is the band leader and is responsible for arranging their set dance material.
		With several decades of experience on the folk scene (both in the UK and Ireland), Dave Mitchell on guitar provides Capital Ceilidh with its crisp, rhythm section. Although occasionally swapping his guitar for mandolin or mandola, it's when the lure of a jig or reel becomes too much. that he pulls the tin whistle from his back pocket and proves that he didn't spend all his time in Dublin studying Guinness.
Annie Jessop grew up in a village called Cunningsburgh, 10miles south of Lerwick on the Shetland Islands. She was taught traditional fiddle by Catriona MacDonald of Dr Tom Anderson’s ‘Young Heritage’. She achieved second place in Shetland’s prestigious ‘Young Shetland Fiddler of the Year’ in 1985 before performing with the ‘Young Heritage’ in Edinburgh’s Usher Hall the same year. She moved briefly to Warwickshire in 1986 before moving again in 1987, this time to North Berwick, East Lothian – 20miles east of Edinburgh. She continued to play and entertain locally – culminating in a tour of north eastern America alongside the ‘North Berwick Pipe Band’ in 1990.		University in 1992 intervened with progress and for around 6 years the fiddle remained silent apart from special occasions. One of these special occasions was entertaining weary walkers after a charity hill climb at the Bridge of Orchy Hotel in June 1999. It was then that Annie first met our accordian player Jan – he asked her to join the band in February 2000 and the rest, as they say, is history.
		Originally a rock singer with a dubious London band, Ros Mitchell saw the error of her ways and teamed up with Dave to form the internationally acclaimed folk band, Late Licence. She appears with Capital Ceilidh at Burns Suppers and events where a more traditional ceilidh entertainment is required. Her treatment of traditional and contemporary ballads betrays nothing of her punk band roots.
Shug Kelly - not a lot to say about the bass player really. Sounds like he comes from Glasgow with a brief stop-over in Dundee. Cheery and talented chap - plays folk, bluegrass, swing, jazz, probably the best bass player in Scotland - ever.