This can be a touchy subject, and I certainly do not intend to offend anyone.
In the ceilidhs and band events I play for we offer a professional service with expensive musical instruments and equipment. To be able to play events we have had many years of experience in performing and many thousands of hours of practice.
In my view, booking an experienced dance musician is akin to engaging a plumber or electrician to work in your home.
English social dance has something of a nomenclature problem, which comes from its long history and modern misconceptions or assumptions when using historical terms.
Country dance The longest lived term is Country Dance. It is the term used in the earliest dance manuals or descriptions (16th/17th century), in the diaries of contemporaries like Pepys who described Country Dance at the royal court. It is the term used in dance books and music books throughout the 18th and 19th centuries and by authors such as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens.