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Issue No. 76 September 2017
Sussex Pie
A FREE magazine for Folk Dance and Song in Sussex
Thank you to Worthing Grasshoppers Dance Club
for its donation to Sussex Pie
The Sussex Pie is published by the Sussex Folk Association for the distribution of information relating to Traditional Music, Dance and Song in the county.
SusFA is affiliated to the
English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS),
Tel. 0207 485 2206
2 Regents Park Road, London NW1 7AY
email: [email protected]
Message from the Editor
Here’s another issue of Sussex Pie! That makes three to my name now. I’ll keep ploughing on, unless anyone thinks they can do a better job??? Correspondence is always welcomed. In this issue you can find a report on the 2017 Playford Ball from Maureen Reed, and Bob Weddell has written about the Eastbourne International Folk Dance Festival. We also benefit from Sean Goddard and John Portlock’s extensive research into the history behind our dances. In the next issue I want to focus on recruitment and retention of members. We’re a collection of clubs for people who derive huge enjoyment from our traditional dances but how much is your club doing to ensure its survival? We lost folk dance clubs in Sussex last year and it would be so sad to see any more close through lack of support. But we’re in competition from so many other pastimes and hobbies that we need to raise our profiles higher than the others to attract attention. Please email and share with others what you are doing for your club to ensure that more people can experience the happiness that dancing gives us. Oh yes, and before I forget, please forgive my Sub-Editor’s rudeness. He wants to hear from the song clubs themselves.
Sally Course, Editor
The notes below are based on a notice which I found at Seaford Club. Thank you Judith for
sending them to me and I hope that experienced dancers will appreciate that these words are
provided for new club members.
Chairman’s Ramblings, We have finally returned from our 5 week odyssey across Europe in our camper van, to Dubrovnik
and back, via a camping rally on the island of Krk in Croatia.We travelled 3,400 miles and visited 10
countries. Not much folk but we were treated to a demonstration of local folk dancing in Croatia at the
rally, and we had two nights of local music at our campsite in Bavaria. In Prague we bought 2 CDs -
one from a Traditional Jazz band, and another from a group of young musician s on fiddles and wind,
both of whom were busking.
We have returned to the quiet time in local folk dance, although Worthing Grasshoppers and Mannings
Heath BDC both keep going in July - I am booked for the former.
I shall have to make do with dancing with Broadwood Morris throughout the rest of the summer - they are very busy in July, on Thursdays and at the weekends. Looking forward to September, when dancing all starts up again!
Bob Weddell
DANCE ETIQUETTE
Guidance notes to help newcomers to this style of dancing
Always join an incomplete set before starting a new one
Never join at the top of a set
Unless you want to sit out, get up when the dance is announced. A lot of preparation is done by the callers, working out the programme and finding the appropriate music, so do show enthusiasm
Listen to the callers and try not to talk when they are giving instructions for walking through a dance
Be gentle – don’t grip or pull hard. Be aware that people have health or joint problems that may not be obvious.
Figure Series:Ladies’ chain
Ladies’ Chain is a common figure within folk dances and is recorded in traditional dances collected in
England and in the USA. It can be performed in many variations, including chaining 2, 3, 4 and 5 ladies. A
Full Ladies’ Chain takes 8 bars.
A description by Rickey Holden in the Contra Dance Book, published in 1956, gives this description, and
this how the Ladies Chain is generally performed today (except where does the lady place her right
hand?!):
Two couples face each other and the ladies change places touching right hands as they pass, each
lady giving left hand to the gentleman she sees in front of her; each gent take the approaching
lady’s left hand in his left, put his right arm around her waist and pivot her so she moves forward
once around to reface the opposite couple. This much is a Ladies’ Half Chain. Each lady returns to
original position with the same movement. This is a Full Ladies’ Chain.
One of the earliest descriptions of the Ladies’ Chain can be found in Barclay Dun’s 1818 publication,
Translation of nine of the most fashionable quadrilles, consisting of fifty French Country Dances as
performed in England and Scotland. Dun’s description is again wordy and has:
The Ladies’ Chain is performed by two ladies crossing over, giving right hand to each other, and the
left to the gentleman opposite, by whom they are turned; the gentlemen, at the same time make
two circles to the left, receiving the ladies as they come forward, and turning them fully about; the
ladies then return to their respective places, giving their hands as before. When the ladies cross
over, giving the hands in this manner, and do not return to their places the figure is called the
ladies half chain. When all [four] ladies cross over, at once, and return to their places, giving hands
in this way, it is called, the ladies’ double chain; and if they do not return to the places they have
left; it is called the ladies’ half double chain.
Remember that Dun’s book is describing Quadrilles, an early form of square dance, and if all the ladies
cross over in the manner described above in the last sentence, they would form a star in the centre. Dun is
describing the ‘Four Ladies’ Chain’. It will be noticed that there is no direction given for where either the
men or women place their right hands. One could assume arms and hands are held by their sides: this we
could call an open or quadrille chain. You will also notice that the men make two circles [turns] to their left
(before the lady reaches them).
Writing in 1820 and describing the dance, Mescolanze 1 (Mescolanze is one way of describing the
formation 4 facing 4) G.M.S. Chivers in his book The Dancers' Guide, published in 1820 describes the first
figure which takes 8 bars as, “All four ladies cross right hands and go round; cross left and return, staying
in the centre.”
Later in 1857, Thomas Hillgrove in Scholars’ Companion and Ball-room Vide Mecum, comprising a
description of all the principal dances as they are now practiced in New York:
The first and second lady cross to opposite places, giving right hand as they pass each other, and
the left hand to the opposite gentleman; both gentlemen turn the ladies round with the left hand,
and then turn themselves (four bars), after which the ladies return to their own places, taking the
opposite lady by the right hand, as they pass each other, and give their left hand to the left hand of
their partner, and turn to place.’
Again, no indication what the dancers do with their right hands.
Continued on page 11
Eastbourne International Folkdance Festival 2017(EIFF)
St Catherine’s College is ideally situated for this dance festival on the outskirts of Eastbourne, with
5 halls with good floors within easy walking distance, car parking and camping on site, with
hotels, buses and shops nearby. Good food is supplied on site by Petra’s Café.
This year we had a wide-ranging mixture of workshops – International (circles), Bollywood,
Bhangra, Romanian, Bavarian dancing, with a good sample of different English styles with a
Danish Band (excellent), US callers, and, of course, top English bands and callers. There were also
music workshops.
Margaret and I attended workshops led by Geoff Cubitt, Colin Hume, Seth Tepfer (USA), John
Sweeney, Scott Higgs (USA), and evening dances led by Chris Turner, Bernie Culkin, Seth Tepfer
and, the highlight of the weekend, a Pat Shaw Ball with Colin Hume and Keeping Thyme. Bands
we danced to were Reel of Three (Denmark), Kelly’s Eye and Notorious.
One of Seth Tepfer’s workshops was especially challenging – he had us changing gender
throughout the dance – mind blowing, and thought provoking. All the workshops are intended to
expand dancing skills. Although the weekend is great fun, it is not for the faint hearted and
inexperienced dancers may well feel swamped.
One session is intended to give new callers the chance to call in this heady atmosphere. I was
especially pleased that a teenage member of the Folk Dance and Song Group of the camping and
Caravanning Club (of which Margaret and I are both members) had a go at this, and she did very
well. Bernie Culkin took this opportunity last year and this year was a workshop leader.
Margaret and I also enjoy meeting up with dancing friends from around the country, including
Sussex.
Written in Dubrovnik, Croatia Saturday 10th June 2017
EAST GRINSTEAD FOLK DANCE CLUB Trinity Methodist Church, Lingfield Road RH19 2HA
Alternate Tuesdays 8-10pm
New Dancers always welcome - Guest Callers
Information: Gill Jones 020 8777 3572 or Ros 01342 321373
Sept 19th
Oct 3rd Oct 17th AGM Oct 31st
Nov 14th Nov 28th
Dec 12th
July 11th
Regular Club Meetings More details on the website www.interfolk.co.uk MONDAY Seaford & District. (Every Monday except Aug.) 7.45pm Sutton Hall, Downs Leisure Centre Sutton Road, Seaford BN25 4QW Tel: Judy Rankin 01323 890759 Keymer Folk Dance Club (1st, 3rd, 5th Mondays, Sept-April) 7.30 – 9.30 United Reformed Church Hall, 23 Keymer Road, Hassocks BN6 8AB Tel: Sue Joseph 01273 845188, www.keymerfolkdanceclub.com Shoreham. 8 pm Monday (not Public Holidays). St. Julians Hall, Rectory Road BN43 6EB. Tel: Keith Calver 01273 415557 www.shorehamfolkdance.org.uk
TUESDAY Hastings & St. Leonards Country Dance Club 7.45-9.45pm every Tuesday St. Matthews Church Centre, London Rd. St Leonards on Sea TN37 6PD. Tel: Janice Bolton 01424 753684 www.hastingscountrydanceclub.org.uk Heathfield Folk Dance Group 7.30 – 10.00 every Tuesday St. Richards Church Hall, Park Road, Heathfield TN21 8DT Tel: Joy Charlesworth 01435 873551 www.heathfieldfolk.org.uk
Magham Down 7.45-9.45pm. every Tuesday
Hellingly Village Hall, Hellingly, Hailsham BN27 4DT
Tel: Elizabeth Munday 01323 841127
Horley & Meadvale 8.00 every Tuesday Sept – June
Empire Hall, Victoria Road, Horley, (telephone Rita for directions)
Tel: Rita Hendy 01342 843629
East Grinstead 8.00-10.00, alternate Tuesdays (see advertisement)
Trinity Methodist Church, Lingfield Rd. East Grinstead RH19 2HA
Tel: Gill Jones 0208 7773572
Lindfield 8.00-10.00 (1st & 3rd Tuesday Sept.-July)
Ashenground Community Centre, Southdown Close, Haywards Heath, RH16 4JR
Tel: Mike Fairweather 01444 482741
Worthing Grasshoppers. 7.45 (2nd 4th Tuesday.
St. Lawrence’s Church Hall, Sea Place, Goring. BN12 4BY
Tel: Sonja Horton 01903 236568
Downsway Playford. 8.00-10.00 (3rd, 5th Tuesdays)
St. Lawrence’s Church Hall, Sea Place, Goring BN12 4BY
Tel: Maureen Reed 01403 741431 Cont. page 8
DANCE DIARY September
Sat 9th
Hastings at Ninfield Memorial Hall TN33 9EE. 7.30 – 10.30 Price £4.50. American supper Caller: Janice Bolton
Janice Bolton 01424 753684
Sat 30th Seaford Tea Dance, 3-6pm St Luke’s Church Hall BN25 3TH Martyn Bidgood with recorded music £5 American tea
Judy 01323 890759
October
Sat 7th Eastbourne Folk Dance Club Autumn Social 7.30 p.m. - 10.30 p.m. at St. Andrews Church Hall, rear of 360 Seaside, Eastbourne BN22 7RY. Caller to be advised. Price £5.00
Brian Carter 01323 419878.
Sat 7th Shoreham Folk Dance Club, St Peter's Church Hall, West Street, Shoreham, BN43 5WG. Barrie Bullimore with recorded music. 7:30 - 10:30pm. £5. American supper
Keith Calver 01903 208851
Sat 14th
Hastings at Ninfield Memorial Hall TN33 9EE. 7.30 – 10.30 Price £4.50. American supper Caller: Diana and John Burton
Janice Bolton 01424 753684
Sat 21st Heathfield FDG - 40th Anniversary Dance, The Reid Hall Boreham Street Hailsham BN27 4SD. Ivan Aitken and JIP £6.50 American Supper.
Joy Charlesworth 01435 873551
Sat 28th Magham Down FDC Tea Dance 2–5pm Emmanuel Church Hall, Hawkswood Road, Hailsham, BN27 1UL £5 inc. refreshments. Callers (tbc) Elizabeth Munday and Walter White
Elizabeth Munday 01323 841127.
November
Sat 4th Bexhill Autumn Dance at Ninfield Memorial Hall TN33 9EE. 7.30- 10.30pm Walter White & Highly Strung. £6. American supper
Heather Thorne. 01424 842690.
Sat 11th
Hastings at Ninfield Memorial Hall TN33 9EE. 7.30- 10.30 Price £4.50. 7.30-10.30 American supper, caller Martyn Bidgood
Janice Bolton 01424 753684
Sat 18th Seaford Tea dance, 3-6pm, St Luke's Church Hall. BN25 3TH John turner with Sue & Peter Hall, £7 American tea
Judy 01323 890759
December
Sun 3rd Shoreham Folk Dance Club, Cream Tea Dance, Pulborough Village Hall, Swan View, RH20 2BF. John Portlock with recorded music. 3 - 6pm £5.
Keith Calver 01903 208851
Sat 9th
Hastings at Ninfield Memorial Hall TN33 9EE. 7.30 – 10.30 Price £7 American supper Christmas Dance Sean Goddard & The Footnotes
Janice Bolton 01424 753684
Sun 31st Eastbourne Folk Dance Club New Year’s Eve Social 8.00 p.m-12.10 a.m. at St. Andrews Church Hall, rear of 360 Seaside, Eastbourne BN22 7RY. Callers Janice and Peter Bolton. £6.00 (tickets essential)
Brian Carter 01323 419878
Sun 31st Horley & Meadvale FDC New Year’s Eve Dance Empire Hall, Victoria Road Horley. Details - contact Rita
Rita Hendy 01342 843629
January 2018
Sat 13th Hastings at Ninfield Memorial Hall TN33 9EE. 7.30 – 10.30 Price £4.50. American supper Caller TBA
Janice Bolton 01424 753684
Sat 20th
Seaford Tea Dance 3-6 St. Luke's Church Hall BN25 3TH Janet Dingley with recorded music £5 American Tea
Judy 01323 890759
February
Sat 10th Hastings at Ninfield Memorial Hall TN33 9EE. 7.30 – 10.30 Price £4.50. American supper Caller TBA
Janice Bolton 01424 753684
March
Sat 10th Hastings at Ninfield Memorial Hall TN33 9EE. 7.30 -10.30 Price £4.50. American supper Caller TBA
Janice Bolton 01424 753684
Sat 17th Seaford Evening Dance 7.30-10.30pm, Seaford Constitutional Club BN25 1PU Crys Rothon with Whirling Skirmish £7 to incl. tea/coffee and biscuits
Judy 01323 890759
Sat 24th Bexhill Spring Dance at Ninfield Memorial Hall TN33 9EE. 7.30- 10.30pm Ivan Aitken & JIP. £7. American supper
Heather Thorne. 01424 842690.
April
Sat 14th Hastings at Ninfield Memorial Hall TN33 9EE. 7.30 -10.30 Price £4.50. American supper Caller TBA
Janice Bolton 01424 753684
Sat 21st Heathfield FDG Spring Dance Caller Sean Goddard Joy Charlesworth 01435 873551
May
Sat 12th Hastings at Ninfield Memorial Hall TN33 9EE. 7.30 -10.30 Price £4.50. American supper Caller TBA
Janice Bolton 01424 753684
June
Sat 9th Hastings at Ninfield Memorial Hall TN33 9EE. 7.30 -10.30 Price £4.50. American supper Caller TBA
Janice Bolton 01424 753684
Sat 9th Sussex Playford Ball. Details coming soon! Maureen 01403 741431
July
Sat 14th Hastings at Ninfield Memorial Hall TN33 9EE. 7.30 -10.30 Price £4.50. American supper Caller TBA
Janice Bolton 01424 753684
September
Sat 8th Hastings at Ninfield Memorial Hall TN33 9EE. 7.30 -10.30 Price £TBA. American supper Caller Carol Hewson & The Joneses
Janice Bolton 01424 753684
Sat 29th Seaford Tea Dance Judy 01323 890759
October
Sat 13th Hastings at Ninfield Memorial Hall TN33 9EE. 7.30 -10.30 Price £4.50. American supper Caller TBA
Janice Bolton 01424 753684
Sat 20th Heathfield FDC Autumn Dance Joy Charlesworth 01435 873551
November
Sat 10th Hastings at Ninfield Memorial Hall TN33 9EE. 7.30 -10.30 Price £4.50. American supper Caller TBA
Janice Bolton 01424 753684
Sat 17th Seaford Tea Dance Judy 01323 890759
December
Sat 8th Hastings at Ninfield Memorial Hall TN33 9EE. 7.30 -10.30 Price £4.50. American supper Caller TBA
Janice Bolton 01424 753684
WEDNESDAY Clubs by day cont. from page 5. Herstmonceux. 8.00-10.00 every Wednesday,
Bodle Street Village Hall, The Causeway, BN27 4UB
Tel: 01323 832294
Mannings Heath. 7.30 (2nd Wed.)
Village Hall, Golding Lane. Mannings Heath RH13 6JU
Tel: Ruth Gwilliam 01403 750844
THURSDAY Bexhill. 8.00 (not Aug)
St Peters Community Centre, Old Town Bexhill TN40 2HE
Tel: Heather Thorne 01424 842690
Bexhill International. 7:30-9:30pm (1st & 3rd Thurs.)
Little Common Methodist Church Hall, Church Hill Ave. Little Common TN39 4SG
Tel: Heather Edwards 01424 222382
Chichester. 8.00-10.00 (1st, 3rd, 5th Thurs) (see advertisement)
The Fishbourne Centre, Black Boy Lane, Fishbourne PO18 8BE
Tel: Sue Frost 01243 552539 www.chifdg.weebly.com Eastbourne 8.00-10.00 St Andrews Church Parish Hall, (rear of 360 Seaside) BN22 7RY Tel: 01323 419878
FRIDAY Felpham & Middleton. 7.30-9.30
Small Jubilee Hall, Elmer Road, Middleton-on-Sea PO22 6EH
Tel: Janet 01243 265010
CHICHESTER FOLK DANCE GROUP http://chifdg.weebly.com/
7 Sept Sue Bradshaw 21 Sept Nigel Beaton
5 Oct Club Callers 19 Oct Nigel Beaton 2 Nov John Portlock
16 Nov Sue Bradshaw 30 Nov Club Callers
7 Dec Nigel Beaton-Party Night! (21 Dec No meeting)
1
st, 3
rd and 5
th Thursdays, 8-10 p.m.
at The Fishbourne Centre, Blackboy Lane,
Fishbourne, near Chichester, PO18 8BE
SUSSEX PLAYFORD BALL 2017
THE SUSSEX PLAYFORD BALL 2017
On a glorious May evening the Annual Sussex Playford Ball came to Sedgwick Park set deep in the beautiful countryside South of Horsham. As befitted the dances, everyone wore costumes (more or less) of the 17th/18th centuries.
The light hearted atmosphere was enhanced by the music of Sue and Peter Hall and all dances were explained by John Turner.
In the interval dancers were able to refresh themselves with the magnificent buffet supper while listening eagerly to see if their raffle ticket numbers would be lucky.
At the end of the evening, everyone went home tired but happy and already anticipating a similar event next year. Maureen Reed
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Chanctonbury Ring Morris Men’s new slings. http://www.crmm.org.uk
Dancing at the annual Long Rope Skipping event held annually at the Rose Cottage, Alciston in East
Sussex on Good Friday, The Chanctonbury Ring Morris Men danced with their brand new slings.
The new red and green slings were bought by the side from a donation by members of Paul
Plumb’s family. Paul was a founder member of the side back in 1953. Paul died at Easter in 2012,
and it was the family’s wish that his memory should be retained within the side.
Sean Goddard, the current Captain of the side said, “The previous slings were made shortly after
the side started dancing North-West Morris in 1975, and they had become a bit tired, faded and
worn out. When the family suggested they wanted to give something to the side to remember Paul,
it came at the ideal time to replace the old slings”.
As Caroline Gilbert, Paul’s daughter explained, “My Dad so loved folk dancing and especially Morris
dancing and it’s great we can give something to help it continue. Paul would have loved the bright
colours.” Chanctonbury Ring Morris Men can be seen this Summer dancing throughout Sussex.
Check their website for details: http://www.crmm.org.uk
Sean Goddard
17 April 2017
NEW SLINGS FOR CHANCTONBURY MORRIS
Continued from page 3.
Maud Karpeles collected the Circassian Circle First Figure (Sicilian Circle version) in
Northumberland in 1928, and the third figure is the Ladies’ Chain, and described in her field notes
as: Women change places giving right hands and turn contrary partners left, cross back again
giving right hands and turn partners with left hand.
It is interesting to note in this description that again there is no description of what to do with
right hands, and we also assume that as Karpeles describes the figure in great detail, it was new
to her.
In her Twelve Traditional Country Dances published in 1931 (she had been to the USA in the
meantime), when describing the Ladies’ Chain for the dance The [Vermont] Tempest, she says:
‘…in making the turn, it is usual for the man to place his right arm round the women’s waist.’ This
is the first instance we can find of the description where the man places his right arm or hand.
Says nothing about were the woman’s arm or hand goes!
Describing the dance, Portland Fancy in the Community Square Dances Manual 2 in 1949, Douglas
Kennedy describes the Ladies’ chain as Karpeles 1931’s description: man’s arm around the lady’s
waist.
In a film produced by Joan Lockhart Bennett in Illinois in 1969, it is clearly seen that the women
place their right hands into the men’s right hands.
We have been unable to exactly date when the lady placed her right hand into the man’s right
hand when turning. It was in use by 1969, and our instinct is that it developed during the 1950s,
perhaps as the result of the Western Square Dance influence, where speed in the turn sometimes
mattered.
We have tried to show how the Ladies’ Chain developed through changing choreography over the
last 200 years. The figure motif generally follows the original description, but over time the extra
man’s turn while the women cross has disappeared, while the man’s arm around the waist and
then the placing of the lady’s right hand into the man’s right hand has developed during the 20th
century. There are other forms of chain we haven’t discussed, the North Country Ladies’ Chain
sometimes used in Yorkshire Square or the Rifleman. Also the rather confusing for men in
particular, the Mens’ Chain, which can be used in Grand Square and other dances. What do you
mean you haven’t tried it? It’s just the reverse!
Now here’s a thing: Men meet, cross right hands, then left pass over, turn each other’s woman
with your right hand, cross to your place again, and turn your own. Women as much with the
contrary hands.
This is a full and improved description by us of Parson’s Farewell from the English Dancing Master published by Playford. Playford included this dance from the 1st until the 8th editions, that’s from 1651-1690. Look at the description carefully and then look at the description by Barclay Dun above. The description of the lady’s crossing and turning is almost the same. Could the figure described by Dun be based on an earlier one? The motif is the same, just the hand movements are slightly different. If you are still not convinced, ask your club caller to call Parson’s Farwell and then do another dance containing a Ladies’ Chain. They will have read this article and be ready for you! Then decide. For the next few articles we will be looking at particular dances.
Sean Goddard & John Portlock
The Sub-Editor’s Column
At the end of my last diatribe I asked you to let me know about places where our rich heritage of songs and tunes is being shared. I received the following email messages: Hi You asked about folk singing clubs – try httl://www.horshamfolkclub.co.uk
Regards Janet Dear Jack, As a caterwauler myself I too would love to see mention of Sussex song clubs in the Pie. Here are some I know about for starters: Cellarfolk Song Club meets on Tuesdays downstairs at the Round Georges, Sutherland Road, Brighton BN2 6EC, contact Ian Fyvie - see CC above. Horsham folk club meets Sundays, especially their song & dance evenings - see http://www.horshamfolkclub.co.uk/ or contact John Byng , CC'd above (John is also a dancer so he may already be in touch). Seaford Folk Songs and Tunes Circle meets on the first Thursday on each month at 8pm, at British Legion - see http://www.seafordfolkclub.com or telephone Derek on 01323 484244 (Derek isn't online). If you are on Facebook you might like to look at The Folk Diary (https://www.facebook.com/groups/folkdiary/) to see if there are any folk song clubs among the folk clubs. I don't know if you were thinking of including folk clubs as well as folk song clubs? The difference is that folk clubs without song in their title might give only half the evening for floor spots and the other half a guest performance.
Elizabeth Message for Jack McAlley, The Horsham Folk Club (descendent of Horsham Songswappers) meets every Sunday evening (except August) at 8pm in the Normandy Centre, Denne Road, Horsham RH12 1JF. Students and under 21s are free. Licensed bar, real ales and free car parking. Every month we have an Open Floor evening and a Song and Dance evening. See programme on www.horshamfolk.co.uk Other song clubs are advertised in the Folk Diary, and Sussex Pie used to have a list of song clubs.
Bob Weddell (Who he? Ed.)
Thank you Janet, Elizabeth and Bob. At the risk of being called “Captain Obvious” wouldn’t it be a good idea for some of you dancers to see if you can coax some singers into contributing piece about their clubs and what they sing, to the next issue. Here’s the address: [email protected] She says that she wants to get around the song clubs but She says that she’s working her way around the dance clubs first. Good! That means I can go to the song clubs. Hope to see you there! Your humble servant,
Jack “the cat” McAlley
SusFA
Sunday
Workshops
Various and diverse dance themes,
with guest callers and instruction over the winter months.
October 22nd
Roodman’s fancies & others to tickle your fancy
Ivan Aitken ♫
November 26th
Dances by Charles Bolton
Nigel Beaton ♫
January 28th
Barrie Bullimore
tba ♫
February 25th
June Axon
tba
Pulborough Village Hall, RH20 2BP £7 Times :10:30am - 3:30pm
Further details from Janet Douglas 01243 265010
Bring a picnic lunch.
DIY Tea and Coffee available all day