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Diary: May 2008

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w/c 1st May

Thurs 1st

Westbury

dance

Gwen Poole

Wiltshire
Fri 2nd Durham
dance
Durham
Fri 2nd Hale Barns nr Altrincham
Lemmings Reprieve
dance
Cheshire
Fri 2nd to Mon 5th

Eastbourne International Festival

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Sussex
Fri 2nd Cambridge Contra
contra
Cambridgeshire

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w/c 3rd May

Sat 3rd

Steventon
Wantage
Jane Austen May ball
Malcolm Bright with Liza and Graham O'Connor

Oxfordshire
Sat 3rd Grasmere
Lakes and Furness Folk
Spring Dance
Pat Wilkinson with Folkus Pocus
Cumbria
Sun 4th Derby
Mumpers
Ceilidh
Quadragogs
Derbyshire

Mon 5th

Lancing
Shoreham
May dance
Barrie Bullimore & Momentum
Sussex
Tues 6th to Fri 9th

Halsway Manor

Mid week American Break


Crowfoot and Geoff Cubitt

Somerset
Wed 7th

Frenchay

dance

Brian Lyons & Brian McMinn

Gloucestershire
Fri 9th

Horwich

Phoenix ceilidh

Hekety

Lancashire

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w/c 10th May

Sat 10th Bedford
Fine Companions

dance
Geoff Cubitt & Kelly’s Eye
Bedfordshire

Sat 10th

Bolton-le-Sands

Dance

Pat Wilkinson & Jacob's Join

Lancashire

Sat 10th Cecil Sharp House
London Barn Dance
contra
John Turner and English Contra Dance Band

London

Sat 10th Chetton
dance
Dee Chapman & Boys of Oakhill
Shropshire
Sat 10th Chelmsford
Playford Ball
Carol Hewson with the Footnotes
Essex
Sat 10th Croydon
dance
Crys Rothon & Crooked Stovepipe
Surrey

Sat 10th

Haywards Heath

Meltdown Ceilidh

RANDOM and Will Hall

Sussex

Sat 10th

Kidlington

Oxfolk

ceildih

Committee Band & Nick Walden

Oxfordshire
Sat 10th Leeds Contra
contra
Crowfoot with Lynne Render
Yorkshire

Sat 10th

Manchester

Playford Ball

Robert Moir with Jim and Denis

Lancashire

Sat 10th

Walton

Stafford

Music day dance

Colin Hume with Heather Bexon and Aidan Broadbridge

Staffordshire

Sat 10th

Westbury

Spring Dance

Chris Turner & Orion's Ring

Wiltshire
Sat 10th Winchmore
dance
Val & Ian McFarlane & The Forest Band

London
Sun 11th

Bromyard

Falconers

eand of season party

Club callers

Herefordshire
Sun 11th

Samlesbury

Folk North West

workshop

Ian Jones with John and Sue Stapledon

Lancashire

Sun 11th

Wildwood

Stafford

Stafford Spring Music Day

Staffordshire
Sun 11th

York Ceilidh Club

ceilidh

Yorkshire
Mon 12th Harrogate
Heatherdene
dance
T'Spile Tappers
Yorkshire
Mon 12th Solihull
Friendly Folk
dance
Naomi Alexander & Cadenza
West Midlands
Thurs 15th

Westbury

dance

Geoff Elwell

Wiltshire
Fri 16th to Sun 18th

Builth Wells Dance Festival

Powys

Fri 16th to Sun 18th

Shepley Spring festival

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Yorkshire

Fri 16th Alcester
contra
Folkus Pocus & David and Kathryn Wright
Worcestershire
Fri 16th Cambridge Contra
contra
Cambridgeshire
Fri 16th Cecil Sharp House
Knees Up Cecil Sharp
ceilidh
London
Fri 16th Durham
dance
Durham
Fri 16th

Winchester Mayfest
contra
English Contra Dance Band with John Turner

Hampshire

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w/c 17th May

Sat 17th

Bedford Early Dance

workshop - Elements of the masque

Anne Daye

Hertfordshire
Sat 17th

Bletchingley Festival

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Surrey
Sat 17th Brighouse
Ryburn 3 Step
ceilidh
Monsieur Pantin & John Brown

Yorkshire

Sat 17th

Cecil Sharp House
dance
Andrew Swaine with the Burlesdon Village Band

London

Sat 17th St Albans Abbey FDC
May Dance
IVAN AITKEN with ORANGE AND BLUE
Hertfordshire
Sat 17th Wolterton Hall near Aylsham
(By kind permission of Lord and Lady Walpole)
THE NORFOLK ASSEMBLY BALL
John & Pauline Osband with Deo Volente
Norfolk
Sun 18th Cecil Sharp House
Quadrille Club
Late Victorian
Ellis Rogers
London
Sun 18th Derby
Mumpers
Ceilidh
Forbidden Gannet
Derbyshire
Mon 19th to Fri 23rd

Halsway Manor

May traditions

Ted Morse, Alan Corkett, Past Morse, Christine Corkett

Somerset
Mon 19th Harrogate
Heatherdene
dance
Castabella
Yorkshire
Mon 19th Solihull
Friendly Folk
dance
Jenny Prince with Brian & Meg
West Midlands
Wed 21st

Frenchay

dance

Peter Howarth & Mike Elsom

Gloucestershire
Wed 21st Norwich Kier Hardie
ceilidh
Keel Band
Norfolk
Thurs 24th Chippenham
Costume Ball
Valerie Webster with Merry Conceit andJim Coleman

details:
01761 471963, or, 020 8889 0634, or,
023 8094 1093, or,
 
 
Wiltshire
Fri 23rd to Mon 26th

Chester festival

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Wiltshire
Fri 23rd to Mon 26th

Chippenham festival

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Wiltshire
Fri 23rd to Mon 26th

Cleethorpes festival

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Wiltshire

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w/c 24th May

Wed 28th Chetton
dance
Mike Whiting
Shropshire
Thurs 29th

Westbury

dance

Valerie Webster

Wiltshire
Fri 30th Cambridge Contra
contra
Cambridgeshire
Fri 30th Hitchin
Unicorn Ceilidhs
ceilidh
Boldwood + Jackie Allen
Hertfordshire

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w/c 31st May

Sat 31st Enfield
North London Folk
INVITED CALLERS DANCE
the ‘Orest Band
London
Sat 31st Poynton ceilidhs
ceilidh
Albeiro
Cheshire

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