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Experience this 12 piece Classic Soul Band who have been together since 1990 and have played not only all over the UK, including The Cavern, The Marquee Club, The Caf\u00e9 Royal, The Rock Garden, Liverpool March of the Mods, Boomtown Festival, Upton Blues, Newquay Festival, The Dorchester etc but in Vienna, Cairo, Tenerife, Germany and Dublin.<\/p>\n

They have supported or shared the bill with acts such as Billy Ocean, Edwin Starr, Jools Holland, Van Morrison, Earth Wind & Fire, Sister Sledge, Gabrielle,\u00a0 Jimmy James, The Real Thing, Odyssey, Paul Young, Craig Charles, Ruby Turner, Omar, Rozalla, Gwen Dickey (Rose Royce), The Commitments, Sheila Ferguson (The Three Degrees), Pato Banton, The Pasadenas, Jaki Graham and many more.\u00a0 Big Mac has written and recorded with Wilson Pickett\u2019s daughter Veda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11654,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"event_category":[],"tc_location":[937],"class_list":["post-11653","events","type-events","status-publish","hentry","tc_location-blackwood"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBig Mac's Wholly Soul Band at Blackwood Miners' Institute | Visit Caerphilly<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.visitcaerphilly.com\/en\/events\/big-macs-wholly-soul-band-at-blackwood-miners-institute\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Big Mac's Wholly Soul Band at Blackwood Miners' Institute | Visit Caerphilly\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Grab your tickets HERE! 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