The Asgards were wonderful! As a Planner based in NC planning a destination wedding in Ireland, I diligently researched musicians as music was so important to my couple. The Asgards are so talented and Alison was always quick to respond to emails. If I have the pleasure of planning again in Ireland, I hope to work with them again!

Asgards performed at our wedding recently and were fantastic. It was a smaller wedding and the band pitched its performance perfectly to the audience and venue. They are a very professional group and we were delighted with them and would happily recommend them to anyone.

Booked the Asgards for my wedding and cannot recommend them enough! They did a fantastic job of playing traditional music while also playing to the crowd and building a positive energy. They are also immensely talented musicians as well (check their youtube channel)! Thanks again Alison!

Hi Alison and all of the Asgards,

Just sending a huge thanks for the wonderful music you played for us at our wedding 7th October in the Riverbank. The guests are still talking about the great music played and the atmosphere ye all helped to create. We thoroughly enjoyed it and thought ye were the perfect fit for our guests, children and adults alike ao thank you so so much for playing. Ye were fantastic to deal with from the very start so I couldn’t recommend ye enough. Hopefully we’ll get to hear ye playing soon again!

Hope ye all got home OK and enjoyed the evening also.

Thanks again
Eibhlín and Enda

Thanks so much Alison! I really appreciated you three making the drive and making the night so memorable.
The music was fantastic. My mum was truly moved by hearing you perform Carrickfergus.
Everyone had a fantastic time, especially mum!

Booked the Asgards for my wedding and cannot recommend them enough! They did a fantastic job of playing traditional music while also playing to the crowd and building a positive energy. They are also immensely talented musicians as well (check their youtube channel)! Thanks again Alison!

We booked the Asgards to play for our friends and family during our small wedding reception. They were amazing and a wonderful touch to our day. Alison also asked if we had any song requests and they accomodated brilliantly. Very talented musicians and I would absolutely hire them again for another event!

The Asgards were absolutely fantastic vendors for our wedding! This trio brought an elevated musical element for our ceremony and drinks reception. Alison was very responsive, organized, and came with several options for trad Irish and classical songs. We effectively collaborated & aligned on our timeline & ceremony details, which really helped bring our vision to life! We highly recommend The Asgards for any couple looking for a talented and professional musical group!!

Just a quick note to say thank you so very much for playing our wedding Sept 16th. The music in the Cathedral was absolutely magical and I loved the version of Inisheer you played for me walking down the aisle, I recognized it immediately and it was so beautiful. The gorgeous music really made the ceremony! Also, my American family members were raving about the music at the pre-drinks reception. So thank you so very much!

Alison, thank you and the Asgards for your fantastic performance at our recent wedding reception. It set the tone for such a memorable day. Your wonderful selection of traditional Irish music with the backing uilleann pipes bowled over the guests, particularly all the Canadians. It truly made it a real Irish wedding for them.

A huge “Thank You” for playing our wedding reception in Boyne Hill House. We had the most magical day and your music during the day brought the perfect atmosphere. We really couldn’t have asked for better!

The Asgards were the perfect touch to our Indian – Irish wedding. They performed so beautifully during the ceremony and created a wonderful, lively atmosphere for the drinks reception. Guests from Ireland and overseas were commenting on just how fantastic the music was. We cannot recommend The Asgards enough!

We wanted to fulfil a long-held dream to be piped up and down the aisle to the uilleann pipes, and The Asgards did that and more. We were a small wedding party and the the band played a gorgeous intimate set, becoming as much a part of the party as the guests. We even got to sing a couple of songs with them ourselves after minimal or no rehearsal and our 98 year old senior guest got an impromptu tutorial on the pipes! Alison, Martin and James made our lovely, sunny wedding day perfect.

The Asgard’s did a beautiful ceremony and cocktail hour for our wedding at Luttrellstown! They were extremely helpful in guiding us with our selections for the ceremony portion. Their choices for the cocktail hour were also perfectly on point. Would highly recommend!

Dear Alison and Asgards,

Kathleen and I wanted to extend our warm thanks to the band for the wonderful set at our wedding in The Anglers Rest last Sunday evening. It really got the night off to a great start and our overseas guests especially enjoyed the music.

Thank you and all the best,
Mark and Kathleen, Wrights Anglers Rest, October 2019

Thank you so much for the wonderful atmosphere you guys created on Friday. Everyone was talking about the ceremony music and how fab it was!. You have been so lovely and helpful in organising music choices. Thanks so much!

September 2019, Crookstown Church and Kilkea Castle, Co. Kildare

An enormous thank you the The Asgards for playing so wonderfully at our ceremony and reception at Bellinter House. Alison, Mick and Martin are hugely talented musicians, really friendly and easy to talk to and boy, can they get the party going! From the moment we heard them playing at Angler’s Rest, we knew they were the band for our wedding. Alison & Martin worked with us to put together some very special music for our ceremony – their knowledge and understanding is fantastic, they knew exactly what we wanted. We can’t recommend The Asgards enough. Thank you so much :-D’

Bellinter House, August 2019

“We hired The Asgards to play at our pre wedding dinner for our Indian-Irish wedding at Medley on 30th March 2018. We met Alison a few weeks before booking and we wanted our guests from abroad to get a taste of traditional Irish Music. Alison and the band knew exactly what we wanted and delivered the perfect performance for our guests. We would highly recommend the Asgards, professional, easy to deal with and know how to please a crowd. (@ Medley, April 2018)”

” We’ve heard many an excellent pianist or harpist play in the background of champagne receptions but after seeing The Asgards play at a wedding, we knew we had to have them play at ours. They added a touch of real class to our wedding as the guests arrived.
It was especially nice for our guests from overseas to hear such beautiful Irish ballads and traditional music.
Alison and the guys are so friendly, accommodating and professional.
Our wedding was fantastic and there was no doubt about it, The Asgards really set the tone. Everyone was very impressed.
We would certainly recommend them for anyone’s wedding.”
(Dee and Robert @The Station House, May 2018)

We wanted traditional Irish music at our intimate wedding ceremony and got this and more when the Asgards played for us. The group played beautifully and made our day so special and memorable. I would highly recommend the Asgards for a wedding. (Mary and John, 16th June 2017).

“We want to thank the Asgards, and the Irish dancers for that absolutely stunning performance you made on our day! Every guest, I mean EVERY, that I spoke to during the evening or after told me how much fun they had with your music and the dancers. People asked us how we have found you and we were so delighted over our luck to have found you for the evening.
We will recommend the Asgards to anyone that will have an event and we will hire you again if we ever get a chance to throw something big in the future if you are available!” (Josefin and Rossa, May 2018)

“Asgards were absolutely brilliant at our wedding. The wedding party was a mix of Irish and Brits, with varying levels of familiarity with trad music and everyone had a superb time and just gushed about the band afterwards, one of the highlights of our day for sure”

“We want to thank the Asgards for both entertaining our Guests and for their professionalism. From beginning to end Alison was always available in clarifying our doubts and very reliable in whatever we needed. On the night, their music was universally acclaimed. It was a special moment for our guests from out of Ireland to hear such beautiful Irish ballads and traditional music. Everybody was raptured by their music, and all the floor ended up dancing. We would highly recommend the Asgards, to everybody seeking a professional, reliable and talented Irish wedding band. Thanks for everything” (September 2018)

Thank you so much for the beautiful music at the ceremony. I barely made it to the drinks reception myself but heard great compliments for you from the guests too.

Really, really magical and we absolutely loved the rendition of ‘Over the Rainbow’. It was a song my dad loved and we really associate with him so it was the perfect moment to have it in the ceremony. My family loved it, though they gave out to me for ruining their mascara and my sister who is very fussy about music said it was the best version of the song she’s ever heard.

I don’t have the words thank you enough, you are all so talented and you really made the ceremony extra special.

I booked Asgards for my partner’s 50th birthday at the Hairy Lemon in Dublin. He is a massive trad fan, and I was looking for a group to play an acoustic afternoon session to support our drinking and create a bit of atmosphere – which they did in spades! Alison, Martin and Mick were simply brilliant. A really talented bunch, a huge variety of music and they had people on their feet in no time – we thoroughly recommend them. Thanks again Asgards!

We booked the Asgards to play for our friends and family during our small wedding reception. They were amazing and a wonderful touch to our day. Alison also asked if we had any song requests and they accomodated brilliantly. Very talented musicians and I would absolutely hire them again for another event!

The Asgards were absolutely fantastic vendors for our wedding! This trio brought an elevated musical element for our ceremony and drinks reception. Alison was very responsive, organized, and came with several options for trad Irish and classical songs. We effectively collaborated & aligned on our timeline & ceremony details, which really helped bring our vision to life! We highly recommend The Asgards for any couple looking for a talented and professional musical group!!

Just a quick note to say thank you so very much for playing our wedding Sept 16th. The music in the Cathedral was absolutely magical and I loved the version of Inisheer you played for me walking down the aisle, I recognized it immediately and it was so beautiful. The gorgeous music really made the ceremony! Also, my American family members were raving about the music at the pre-drinks reception. So thank you so very much!

Alison, thank you and the Asgards for your fantastic performance at our recent wedding reception. It set the tone for such a memorable day. Your wonderful selection of traditional Irish music with the backing uilleann pipes bowled over the guests, particularly all the Canadians. It truly made it a real Irish wedding for them.

A huge “Thank You” for playing our wedding reception in Boyne Hill House. We had the most magical day and your music during the day brought the perfect atmosphere. We really couldn’t have asked for better!

The Asgards were the perfect touch to our Indian – Irish wedding. They performed so beautifully during the ceremony and created a wonderful, lively atmosphere for the drinks reception. Guests from Ireland and overseas were commenting on just how fantastic the music was. We cannot recommend The Asgards enough!

We wanted to fulfil a long-held dream to be piped up and down the aisle to the uilleann pipes, and The Asgards did that and more. We were a small wedding party and the the band played a gorgeous intimate set, becoming as much a part of the party as the guests. We even got to sing a couple of songs with them ourselves after minimal or no rehearsal and our 98 year old senior guest got an impromptu tutorial on the pipes! Alison, Martin and James made our lovely, sunny wedding day perfect.

The Asgard’s did a beautiful ceremony and cocktail hour for our wedding at Luttrellstown! They were extremely helpful in guiding us with our selections for the ceremony portion. Their choices for the cocktail hour were also perfectly on point. Would highly recommend!

Dear Alison and Asgards,

Kathleen and I wanted to extend our warm thanks to the band for the wonderful set at our wedding in The Anglers Rest last Sunday evening. It really got the night off to a great start and our overseas guests especially enjoyed the music.

Thank you and all the best,
Mark and Kathleen, Wrights Anglers Rest, October 2019

Thank you so much for the wonderful atmosphere you guys created on Friday. Everyone was talking about the ceremony music and how fab it was!. You have been so lovely and helpful in organising music choices. Thanks so much!

September 2019, Crookstown Church and Kilkea Castle, Co. Kildare

An enormous thank you the The Asgards for playing so wonderfully at our ceremony and reception at Bellinter House. Alison, Mick and Martin are hugely talented musicians, really friendly and easy to talk to and boy, can they get the party going! From the moment we heard them playing at Angler’s Rest, we knew they were the band for our wedding. Alison & Martin worked with us to put together some very special music for our ceremony – their knowledge and understanding is fantastic, they knew exactly what we wanted. We can’t recommend The Asgards enough. Thank you so much :-D’

Bellinter House, August 2019

“We hired The Asgards to play at our pre wedding dinner for our Indian-Irish wedding at Medley on 30th March 2018. We met Alison a few weeks before booking and we wanted our guests from abroad to get a taste of traditional Irish Music. Alison and the band knew exactly what we wanted and delivered the perfect performance for our guests. We would highly recommend the Asgards, professional, easy to deal with and know how to please a crowd. (@ Medley, April 2018)”

” We’ve heard many an excellent pianist or harpist play in the background of champagne receptions but after seeing The Asgards play at a wedding, we knew we had to have them play at ours. They added a touch of real class to our wedding as the guests arrived.
It was especially nice for our guests from overseas to hear such beautiful Irish ballads and traditional music.
Alison and the guys are so friendly, accommodating and professional.
Our wedding was fantastic and there was no doubt about it, The Asgards really set the tone. Everyone was very impressed.
We would certainly recommend them for anyone’s wedding.”
(Dee and Robert @The Station House, May 2018)

We wanted traditional Irish music at our intimate wedding ceremony and got this and more when the Asgards played for us. The group played beautifully and made our day so special and memorable. I would highly recommend the Asgards for a wedding. (Mary and John, 16th June 2017).

“We want to thank the Asgards, and the Irish dancers for that absolutely stunning performance you made on our day! Every guest, I mean EVERY, that I spoke to during the evening or after told me how much fun they had with your music and the dancers. People asked us how we have found you and we were so delighted over our luck to have found you for the evening.
We will recommend the Asgards to anyone that will have an event and we will hire you again if we ever get a chance to throw something big in the future if you are available!” (Josefin and Rossa, May 2018)

“Asgards were absolutely brilliant at our wedding. The wedding party was a mix of Irish and Brits, with varying levels of familiarity with trad music and everyone had a superb time and just gushed about the band afterwards, one of the highlights of our day for sure”

“We want to thank the Asgards for both entertaining our Guests and for their professionalism. From beginning to end Alison was always available in clarifying our doubts and very reliable in whatever we needed. On the night, their music was universally acclaimed. It was a special moment for our guests from out of Ireland to hear such beautiful Irish ballads and traditional music. Everybody was raptured by their music, and all the floor ended up dancing. We would highly recommend the Asgards, to everybody seeking a professional, reliable and talented Irish wedding band. Thanks for everything” (September 2018)

Thank you so much for the beautiful music at the ceremony. I barely made it to the drinks reception myself but heard great compliments for you from the guests too.

Really, really magical and we absolutely loved the rendition of ‘Over the Rainbow’. It was a song my dad loved and we really associate with him so it was the perfect moment to have it in the ceremony. My family loved it, though they gave out to me for ruining their mascara and my sister who is very fussy about music said it was the best version of the song she’s ever heard.

I don’t have the words thank you enough, you are all so talented and you really made the ceremony extra special.

I booked Asgards for my partner’s 50th birthday at the Hairy Lemon in Dublin. He is a massive trad fan, and I was looking for a group to play an acoustic afternoon session to support our drinking and create a bit of atmosphere – which they did in spades! Alison, Martin and Mick were simply brilliant. A really talented bunch, a huge variety of music and they had people on their feet in no time – we thoroughly recommend them. Thanks again Asgards!

Mick Dunphy is a Waterford native from a musical family. He plays the Guitar, Bodhran, Whistle and will belt out a ballad if it’s called for. He has performed and taught Irish music at many colleges, festivals and venues around the world from Trinity College Dublin to the Milwaukee Irish Fest.

For any wedding, the haunting sound of the uniquely Irish uilleann pipes creates an unforgettable Celtic atmosphere. Much quieter and sweeter than their Scottish cousin, (the Highland pipes) the uilleann pipes are especially effective in a church setting. Martin Nolan is a highly respected member of the Irish piping community, with more than 30 years experience.

Alison Gough, from County Dublin is a Classically trained violinist from a traditional Irish music background. She has played across the globe from Las Vegas Fremont Street to folk festivals in the south of France. You might catch her some night playing some lively tunes at the Anglers Rest in the Strawberry Beds….