Dr Price's Fire Band

Twmpath... why we're kicking up the sawdust in Wales

Meet Mike Greenwood (melodeon), Olly Price (fiddle) and Mick Tems (tabwrdd). We've played Welsh dance tunes together at festivals in Fylde, Tredegar House in Newport, Belgium and Germany - but that was long before we decided to form a band, and what we should call it!

Mike lives in Penarth, Cardiff, and Mick and Olly both live half a mile from each other in the Beddau area, near Llantrisant, Glamorgan. We're musicians for the Welsh dance Gwerinwyr Gwent, in Newport, Wales, but Mike plays for assorted Welsh, clog and morris teams and Mick and Olly both play for Dawnswyr Glanllwyd, from Cwmbran.

Dr William Price lived in Llantrisant for nearly all the 19th century. He was a physician, an archdruid and a brilliant, visionary man - stories about him are legion, but his claim to fame was when he pioneered cremation. What else to name a trio of musicians but... DR PRICE'S FIRE BAND.

Proud, fiery, beautiful Welsh tunes are our first love, but our travels far and wide have led us to believe that all traditional dance music cuts the mustard pretty finely - Quebecois reels, Scots jigs, and Yorkshire rants... you name it and we'll enjoy playing it.

If you want to book DR PRICE'S FIRE BAND for a barn dance, a twmpath, a festival, a wedding, birthday party or a knees-up, ring Mick on 01443 206689 or e-mail Dr Price. He won't let you down!