I am interested in folk: dance, music, song and festivals.
Folk Dancing
I first folk danced when IVC started holding ceilidh style dances for its members in 1974. These used to attract about 100 people monthly on Saturdays at its own premises up two stories of concrete stairs in Barwick Street Birmingham city centre.
IVC then started fortnightly dances on a Friday.
These went independent as Friday Folk in 2003.
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For details, programme etc. click on activityexchange.com/FridayFolk
We’ve been fairly regular attendees at the following dances:
Friendly Folk, Solihull. weekly, Mondays
Sychampton, Worcestershire, monthly, Saturday
Bard (formerly Quinborne) ceilidh, monthly, Saturday,
Peeping Tom ceilidh, Massey Ferguson, Coventry, Thursday
Maggots and More, Acocks Green, monthly, Sundays
When the monthly dances coincide it is possible to go dancing on six consecutive days.
Since 2004 I have been a member of SELPAR international Folk Dance Club Stirchley, Tuesdays, see www.sifd.org/groups/central.php
Here is a video of our New Year's Eve demonstration at Friday Folk
When Selpar is having a break I sometimes go to Rubery Barn Dance Club which meets on Tuesday evenings 8-10pm at Rubery Leisure Centre, Holywell lane, Rubery, Birmingham.
I have also done the following dance styles: Scottish, French, Breton, Irish, Morris, Rapper Sword, American (contra, square, running set and line dance), maypole; I have also been to workshops at festivals led by groups from many countries.
As an advanced driver I have notices that good dancing is like good driving
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Friday Folk
Folk music and song
I started going to folk clubs whilst a student. I went to The Royal Hotel Walsall and The Jug of Punch, Digbeth, Birmingham (home of the Cambells).
For the last few years I have been a member of The Red Lion Folk Club
Folk Festivals