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  • Motown show band
  • Perform with backing tracks
  • Band carry their own stage, lights and DJ
  • Covering all of the dance floor hits of that era including, The Drifters, The Four Tops, the temptaions and many more.

The Driftars are based in central Scotland but perform to clients throughout the UK and Europe. For the past 30 years the Driftars have toured with names such as Lulu, Edwin Starr, Ben E King.


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    About this Act

    The Driftars are an exceptional, highly experienced group, playing to private and corporate clients alike in the UK and Europe.

    Every age group has a favourite Drifters or Motown song and this show incorporates the best of these timeless classics. Every night with The Driftars is a foot stomping, hand clapping, sing along party.

    Led by Gillie Leroy Jones, a charismatic and gifted male lead vocalist who has performed with the American Drifters, Ben E King, Billy Lewis, Dionne Warwick, Lulu, the Searchers, Suzie Quatro and Edwin Starr

    The high standards set by The Driftars group has seen the band playing in some fantastic venues including the London Palladium and theatres and festivals across the UK and Europe.

    This ultra professional act also can travel with their own stage, lighting and DJ.

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    Hello Happiness
    Dance With Me
    Under the Board Walk
    Up on the Roof
    Your’re more than a number in my little red book
    Like sister and brother
    Save the last dance for me
    Down at the club
    Saturday night at the movies
    Sweet Caroline
    Kissin in the back row of the movies
    It’s the same old song
    Danny Boy
    Broadway
    Doing Fine
    Four Tops Medley
    Haven’t stopped dancing yet
    Higher & Higher
    The impossible dream
    Shake your tail feather
    My Girl
    Ain’t too proud to beg
    Get ready
    Superstition
    Uptight
    This Old heart of mine
    All night long
    It’s the same old song

    Lineup

    • 4 piece vocal act performing to tracks

    This act's standard set times are as follows:

    • Two hours worth of music split in to two sets or one long set

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    • 4 piece
    • 5 piece
    • 6+ piece



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