Alphabet Dancers will be meeting on Friday 8th December for our Christmas Party. Dancing from 8pm to 10:30 pm with a break in the middle for bring-and-share finger food. The weather is forecast to be a bit snowy, but it looks like it will be about 1cm in total with rain to wash it away, so we will definitely drive down from the hills to organise.
Dates for the winter term are 12 & 26 Jan, 9 & 23 Feb, and 9 & 23 March 2018, each 8-10pm with the band playing at the first event each month. In addition we will be holding a simple dance as part of the Bishops Castle Arts Festival on Sat 24 Feb from 3:30 - 5pm at the Three Tuns.
Keep on dancing and have a festive time
Paul
Thursday, 7 December 2017
Thursday, 18 May 2017
It's summer!
Our regular Fridays have now stopped for the summer, but we haven't completely stopped yet!
On May 31st we're the guest band & caller at Chetton Folk Dance Club near Bridgnorth. Talk amongst your friends to share lifts, or give Jan & Paul a call
PLUS
On 11 June there is an afternoon dance for the Music Day. Timing is 4:30-7pm and cost is £5 to include refreshments of sandwiches and cake in the break. Our Caller Maggie Hosking leads us as dancers, with Paul Hutchinson leading the band. The melody lines for the music have now been emailed out, so if you'd like to come along and play please book soon to ensure your place. Form can be found http://www.
Autumn
W miss the second Friday in September and would direct dancers to Bromyard Folk Festival who have a dance in the Falcon Inn on Friday 8th September (and more dancing during the day on 9th September) We are back for the 4th Friday in September (22nd) at Lydham VH and the following Friday (29th September) there is a social dance we are running at Norbury VH, more details later, but open to the public with a small charge to cover costs.
As they say on the TV, Keep Dancing
On May 31st we're the guest band & caller at Chetton Folk Dance Club near Bridgnorth. Talk amongst your friends to share lifts, or give Jan & Paul a call
PLUS
On 11 June there is an afternoon dance for the Music Day. Timing is 4:30-7pm and cost is £5 to include refreshments of sandwiches and cake in the break. Our Caller Maggie Hosking leads us as dancers, with Paul Hutchinson leading the band. The melody lines for the music have now been emailed out, so if you'd like to come along and play please book soon to ensure your place. Form can be found http://www.
Autumn
W miss the second Friday in September and would direct dancers to Bromyard Folk Festival who have a dance in the Falcon Inn on Friday 8th September (and more dancing during the day on 9th September) We are back for the 4th Friday in September (22nd) at Lydham VH and the following Friday (29th September) there is a social dance we are running at Norbury VH, more details later, but open to the public with a small charge to cover costs.
As they say on the TV, Keep Dancing
Sunday, 7 May 2017
Springtime dancing
We met on Friday 28th April and had a great turnout, with a number of trickier dances enjoyed .
We next meet at Lydham VH from 8pm for our final "normal " Friday on 12th May with the band and cake as the last normal meeting, but don't get withdrawal symptoms just yet. We will focus on easier dances to keep a party atmosphere.
On Saturday 13th May there is a Barn Dance with supper included run by the Walking Festival in the 3 Tuns in Bishops Castle, booking essential. Paul will call and the band are playing. When I last heard there were 2 places left
And on May 31st we're the guest band & caller at Chetton near Bridgnorth. I'm sure lift shares can be arranged on 12th if people are interested
PLUS
On 11 June there is an afternoon dance for the Music Day. Timing is 4:30-7pm and cost is £5 to include refreshments of sandwiches and cake in the break. Our Caller Maggie Hosking leads us as dancers, with Paul Hutchinson leading the band. The melody lines for the music are now being emailed out, so if you'd like to come along and play please book soon to ensure your place. Form can be found http://www.
Happy dancing
Autumn
We are back for the 4th Friday in September (22nd) at Lydham VH and the following Friday (29th September) there is a social dance we are running at Norbury VH, more details later, but open to the public with a small charge to cover costs.
We next meet at Lydham VH from 8pm for our final "normal " Friday on 12th May with the band and cake as the last normal meeting, but don't get withdrawal symptoms just yet. We will focus on easier dances to keep a party atmosphere.
On Saturday 13th May there is a Barn Dance with supper included run by the Walking Festival in the 3 Tuns in Bishops Castle, booking essential. Paul will call and the band are playing. When I last heard there were 2 places left
And on May 31st we're the guest band & caller at Chetton near Bridgnorth. I'm sure lift shares can be arranged on 12th if people are interested
PLUS
On 11 June there is an afternoon dance for the Music Day. Timing is 4:30-7pm and cost is £5 to include refreshments of sandwiches and cake in the break. Our Caller Maggie Hosking leads us as dancers, with Paul Hutchinson leading the band. The melody lines for the music are now being emailed out, so if you'd like to come along and play please book soon to ensure your place. Form can be found http://www.
Happy dancing
Autumn
We are back for the 4th Friday in September (22nd) at Lydham VH and the following Friday (29th September) there is a social dance we are running at Norbury VH, more details later, but open to the public with a small charge to cover costs.
Tuesday, 21 March 2017
Lydham Dance 24 March
Following having 30 dancers last time we hope that we'll again
have a good crowd this Friday at Lydham for our normal evening dance
starting at 8pm.
The next dance after that will be on Good
Friday - 14 April. This will be with the band, and last year we had a
great attendance. The weather wasn't brilliant but obviously people are
on holiday and like the opportunity to get out and socialise.
A
reminder that the music workshop is running again this year on Sunday
June 11th. We are lucky to have obtained the services of Paul
Hutchinson to again lead the workshop - his instruction from 4 years ago
is still the peak for me - with Maggie Hosking calling the dances.
I've seen the dance list and there will be a wide variety of tempos to
challenge the band, and a few different dances to entertain the
dancers. Maggie doesn't do difficult - the whole point is to allow as
much music as possible to be played on the day.
Tuesday, 13 December 2016
It's Christmas
Many thanks to all the lovely people who came dancing last Friday I have today passed on £89 in donations to Hope House Hospice.
Have a great Christmas and New Year folks and see you on 13 Jan
Paul
Have a great Christmas and New Year folks and see you on 13 Jan
Paul
Saturday, 3 September 2016
Come dancing restarts
After our break for the summer, we will be restarting dancing again
on 23 September at Lydham Village Hall at 8pm. And we will have the
Alphabet Band playing. So do tell your friends and acquaintances as we
love having new people join us. If you miss this one the next time will
be 14th October, with normal 2nd and 4th Fridays.
But for
those who would like to dance before then, this Friday and all weekend
is Bromyard Folk Festival with a "Day of Dance" starting Friday night
7:30-10:30pm with a contra dance led by Joe Hodgson and The Falconers in
the Falcon Ballroom, and continuing to teatime on Saturday. Dancing on
Saturday starts at 10am with Frances Richardson and Mike Courthold the
callers and music from The Falconers and Weston Country Dance Band.
Tickets for the "Day of Dance" are £20 or you can buy individual
sessions. For more info see
http://www.bromyardfolkfestival.co.uk/artists/programme/
Saturday, 30 April 2016
May dances coming up
7 May Church Stretton, 13 May Lydham, 25 May Chetton
It was one of those 5 Friday months in April, so for those of you thinking it must be Alphabet Dancers this week, sorry it's a week later on 13 May.
However to reduce withdrawal pangs we have coming up:
Saturday 7 May Church Stretton Music Festival with a folk dance concert 11:15-12 in The United Reform Church, followed afterwards by a dance in the URC Hall next door until 2pm. See this poster for details of "The Incomplete Dancing Master Exposed" (I suspect that's me!)
bit.ly/1TlI9MA
If you have a chance to print and distribute please do!
The complete programme for the day can be found here
or at these links bit.ly/1TCd6yC bit.ly/1VFswpb
It looks like a lot is happening and proceeds to a good cause. Hope to see many of you there.
On 13 May we have our last regular dance at Lydham - we'll run a little longer and have cake in the interval. Start 8pm with the band
And to reduce your wait until September Paul & the band are at Chetton Folk Dance Group on 25 May from 8pm-10:15 at Chetton Village Hall. Please come along as visitors and join in. You'll be most welcome.
And if you have read this far - maybe see some of you at Clun Green Man on Sun 1st May- I'll be Cotswold Morris dancing at 12 and 3:15. Bedlams will be in the square from 11am on 2nd May, but my ligaments preclude me from that.
It was one of those 5 Friday months in April, so for those of you thinking it must be Alphabet Dancers this week, sorry it's a week later on 13 May.
However to reduce withdrawal pangs we have coming up:
Saturday 7 May Church Stretton Music Festival with a folk dance concert 11:15-12 in The United Reform Church, followed afterwards by a dance in the URC Hall next door until 2pm. See this poster for details of "The Incomplete Dancing Master Exposed" (I suspect that's me!)
bit.ly/1TlI9MA
If you have a chance to print and distribute please do!
The complete programme for the day can be found here
or at these links bit.ly/1TCd6yC bit.ly/1VFswpb
It looks like a lot is happening and proceeds to a good cause. Hope to see many of you there.
On 13 May we have our last regular dance at Lydham - we'll run a little longer and have cake in the interval. Start 8pm with the band
And to reduce your wait until September Paul & the band are at Chetton Folk Dance Group on 25 May from 8pm-10:15 at Chetton Village Hall. Please come along as visitors and join in. You'll be most welcome.
And if you have read this far - maybe see some of you at Clun Green Man on Sun 1st May- I'll be Cotswold Morris dancing at 12 and 3:15. Bedlams will be in the square from 11am on 2nd May, but my ligaments preclude me from that.
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