Music Day dance 7 June

Come and dance to a folk band with 20 members.  During the day they will be practicing under the direction of Ted Morse, who will then lead them and call the dances.
Doors open at Lydham Village Hall at 16:15 on Sunday 7 June with dancing from 16:30-19:00. The dances will be simple English Country dances so the band play lots and little instruction is involved. There will be an interval when tea, sandwiches and cake will be served. Cost £5
For further details call Paul or Jean on 01743 891117

Dance 7 June

Our annual musician's day workshop on 7th June will feature a public dance. Doors open 4:15 for 4:30 start dancing. Beforehand the band will be practicing hence 4:15 doors open. Dance to 7pm with teatime interval in the middle of tea and cakes. Price £5

Reserve 31 October for the Costumed Ball at Bishops Castle Town Hall . More details to follow

Live music consecutive weeks

Our normal Alphabet meeting will be on 13 February at Lydham with the Alphabet Band playing - we have added an extra 6 tunes to the repertoire and I think you will like the dances that go with them!
The following SATURDAY 21 February we are in the top room at the 3 Tuns Inn where we will be hosting an open session for anyone who wants to come along. Please do support us in this as then we can help newcomers more easily.

Our next two meetings on 27 February and 13 March will feature guest callers. Please do support them as I know they have  spent time getting nice programmes together

The dance list from the end of January included
Childgrove
Duke of Kent's waltz
Sally in our Alley
Shrewsbury Lasses
Wakefield Hunt
and the very seasonal Winter Dreams

Dancing on 23 January

We will be at Lydham Village Hall as normal tonight for anyone who is brave enough to face the weather - it actually looks better than recently so hopefully it will be a good ourney for all.

The last time we danced :
Argeers
Dartington
Emma's Waltz
Fenterlarick
Gued Man of Ballangigh
Turn of the tide
Brief Encounter (with a few variations!)

2015 exciting dates!

We have our normal meetings on the second and fourth Fridays - Jan 9 &23, Feb 13 & 27 and March 13&27.  Our lovely band will play the first session each month. In addition there is a special event for the Bishops Castle Arts Festival on Sat 21 Feb in the 3 Tuns upstairs room starting at 3:30pm with Alphabet Band playing.

In addition I have recently been contacted about running a 1765 Ball - this is the first year that the Town Hall in Bishops Castle can be dated back to so it is the 250th anniversary.  The Town Hall team are building a series of activities around 1765 including making clothes of the period, so look out for further details later in the year!

The dances performed at the Christmas Party were:
Anniversary Reel to a medley of seasonal songs
Duke of Kent's waltz
Childgrove
Sun Assembly
Millenium Dame
Half Hanikin
Newcastle
Dartington
Dr Vincent's Delight
Gued man of Ballangigh

Happy dancing in 2015

Dances on 14 November

We had the lovely band playing for us this week and some enterprising dancers, so we managed more dances than normal (and repeated a couple three times!)
In alphabetical order:
Childgrove
Dartington
Dr Vincent's Delight
Gued man of Ballangigh
Half Hannekin
Sun Assembly
Turning by Threes
Newcastle

Our next dance is 28 November starting at 8pm, and then we have the Christmas extravaganza on 12 December running until 10:30pm with special refreshments

Dances on 24 October

We tried a few different dances this week
Newcastle
Duke of Kent's Waltz
Winter Solstice
Gene's Tambourine
Wibsey Roundabout
Childgrove

And failed with Brief Encounter as we were changing too many times! However I now have the sheet imprinted in memory :-)

Next dance is 14 November at Lydham VH, 8pm start. With The Alphabet Dance Band playing