FOLK DANCING IN MID-DERBYSHIRE

We welcome both experts and beginners. Most of us are somewhere in between. To begin with, all you need is rhythm, and to know your left from your right! We will help you around, and the caller will keep on telling all of us what to do next.

Founded in 1979, the Run of the Mill Club welcomes new members (singles or couples) or visitors - anyone with an interest in dancing. Our aim is to promote the dances from the 17th. century to the present day that are generally included in the term 'Folk Dances'. These may be Traditional; Elizabethan; American "Contras" and "Squares"; or "Pat Shaw". We do many dances devised in recent years in a similar style.

The Club has a full programme of club evenings and Saturday dances throughout the year. Every year in late October, a period Costume Ball is held, normally at the Cavendish Hall, by Edensor, Chatsworth - a "Playford Ball" at which dancers almost all wear clothes in the style of the 18th Century. Dancers come from many parts of England and the tickets are all taken months ahead of the event.

We meet on the second, fourth (& fifth if any) Wednesday of every month from September through to July inclusive at 7.30pm at the Florence Nightingale Hall, Yew Tree Hill, Holloway. The hall is situated by a green triangle, just below the Yew Tree Inn, on the minor road linking Cromford (A6) with the Tram Museum at Crich (B5035).  There is a LOCATION MAP near the foot of this web site showing exactly where the hall is. [Grid reference SK 325 563; PostCode DE4 5AQ] . If you like any kind of social dancing please come and join us.

There is a nominal charge of £1 (£1.70 for non-members) per person per evening, which includes tea, coffee and biscuits.

To join us just turn up at a club night.

If you have any questions please contact any of the following:-

 

David Skelton	01332-881221	skellybobs@talktalk.net
John Daglish	01629-534479	jbdaglish@btinternet.com
Christine Ward	01629-732210
Martin Phillips	01332-841259	msp1219-rotm@yahoo.co.uk

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AT A CLUB NIGHT.  

PROGRAMME -  JANUARY to DECEMBER 2010

 YEAR 2010

Jan 13	Wednesday Club Night
Jan 27	Wednesday Club Night
Feb 10	Wednesday Club Night
Feb 13	Valentines Dance David Burke & Stradivarious
Feb 24	Wednesday Club Night
Mar 10	Wednesday Club Night
Mar 24	Wednesday Club Night
Mar 31	Wednesday Club Night
Apr 14	Wednesday Club Night
Apr 28	Wednesday Club Night
May 12	Wednesday Club Night
May 22	Spring Dance at Holloway Andrew Long and Dave & Caroline
May 26	Wednesday Club Night
June 9	Wednesday Club Night
June 23	Wednesday Club Night
June 30	Wednesday Club Night
July 14	Wednesday Club Night
July 28	Wednesday Club Night

All the above events, except the Playford Ball, are at the Florence Nightingale Hall, Holloway, and they all start at 7.30 pm.

  LOCATION MAP FOR ALL EVENTS EXCEPT THE THE  PLAYFORD BALL
Florence Nightingale Hall, Holloway [Grid reference SK 325 563; PostCode DE4 5AQ]

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Links to other folk dance sites in the UK.:

• English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) - http://www.efdss.org/
• Set & Turn Single
  
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• Spire Folk - Ring 01246-274673
• Lichfield Folk Dance Club
  
• Nottingham Folk Dance Group -http://www.nfdg.org.uk/
• Mumpers Ceilidh Club- http://www.mumpers.org.uk/
• Derby (EFDSS) Club - Ring 01332-557156
• Quorn Folk Dance Group
• Webfeet - http://www.webfeet.org/

• Folk in South Yorkshire - http://www.fisy.freeserve.co.uk/
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Suggested additions or amendments to this website should be sent to tedroadhouse@boltblue.com

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