Folk dances
Ceilidhs, bals, contras and Nos Lowens near you, and the classes that teach them: evenings you go to dance at, most of them with no experience or partner needed.
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Friday 16 October
Fri 16 Oct
18:30
23:00
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Holme Lacy Village Hall , Holme Lacy, Herefordshire
Fri 16 Oct
19:00
22:00
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Warwick Castle , Warwick, Warwickshire
Fri 16 Oct
19:00
23:00
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Meole Brace School , Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Fri 16 Oct
19:30
22:30
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Worsall Village Hall , Low Worsall, North Yorkshire
Fri 16 Oct
20:00
22:30
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Stroud Brewery , Stroud, Gloucestershire
Fri 16 Oct
20:00
23:00
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Cecil Sharp House , London, Greater London
Saturday 17 October
Sat 17 Oct
14:30
16:00
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Birch Community Centre , Rusholme, Greater Manchester
Sat 17 Oct
18:00
19:30
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St George’s Church Hall , Cullercoats, Tyne and Wear
Sat 17 Oct
18:30
21:30
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St James Community Hall , Salford, Greater Manchester
Sat 17 Oct
19:00
22:00
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Kempley Village Hall , Kempley, Gloucestershire
Sat 17 Oct
19:30
22:30
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Richard Newton Hall , Teignmouth, Devon
Sat 17 Oct
19:30
22:30
Sat 17 Oct
19:30
23:00
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North Down Orchard , Haselbury Plucknett, Somerset
Sat 17 Oct
19:30
22:30
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Corn Exchange , Devizes, Wiltshire
Sat 17 Oct
19:30
22:00
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Birch Community Centre , Rusholme, Greater Manchester
Sat 17 Oct
20:00
23:30
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Grove Village Hall , Grove, Oxfordshire
Sat 17 Oct
20:00
23:00
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London Scottish House , London, Greater London
Sat 17 Oct
20:00
22:00
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St George’s Church Hall , Cullercoats, Tyne and Wear
Friday 23 October
Fri 23 Oct
18:30
20:00
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The Southville Centre , Bristol, Bristol
Fri 23 Oct
18:30
21:30
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The Lubber Fiend , Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Fri 23 Oct
19:00
22:30
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St Laurence Church , Stroud, Gloucestershire
Fri 23 Oct
19:30
22:30
Fri 23 Oct
20:00
23:00
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Moretonhampstead Parish Hall , Moretonhampstead, Devon
Fri 23 Oct
20:00
23:00
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Bristol Folk House , Bristol, Bristol
Fri 23 Oct
20:00
23:00
Fri 23 Oct
20:00
23:00
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Cecil Sharp House , London, Greater London
Fri 23 Oct
20:00
22:30
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Small Beer Brewery , London, Greater London
Fri 23 Oct
20:00
22:15
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St Andrew’s Hall , Chesterton, Cambridgeshire
Fri 23 Oct
20:15
22:30
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Canary Social Club , Norwich, Norfolk
Saturday 24 October
Sat 24 Oct
19:00
22:00
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St Mildred’s Church , Tenterden, Kent
Sat 24 Oct
19:00
22:00
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Marden Memorial Hall , Marden, Kent
Sat 24 Oct
19:00
22:00
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Hickling Barn , Hickling, Norfolk
Sat 24 Oct
19:30
23:00
Sat 24 Oct
19:30
22:30
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Nunsfield House , Alvaston, Derbyshire
Sat 24 Oct
19:30
22:30
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The Gregson Centre , Lancaster, Lancashire
Monday 26 October🌕 Hunter’s Moon Friday 30 October
Fri 30 Oct
19:00
22:00
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St Peter’s Church , Parkstone, Dorset
Fri 30 Oct
19:00
21:00
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Holy Trinity Church Hall , Winchester, Hampshire
Fri 30 Oct
19:00
22:00
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Eskdale Village Hall , Eskdale Green, Cumbria
Fri 30 Oct
19:30
22:30
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St John’s Waterloo , London, Greater London
Fri 30 Oct
19:30
22:30
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The Attic , Leeds, West Yorkshire
Fri 30 Oct
20:00
23:00
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Harewood House , Plympton, Devon
Fri 30 Oct
20:00
23:00
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Cecil Sharp House , London, Greater London
Saturday 31 October
Sat 31 Oct
13:00
16:00
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The Round Chapel , London, Greater London
Sat 31 Oct
15:30
17:30
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Hebden Royd Methodist Church Hall , Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire
Sat 31 Oct
19:00
22:30
Sat 31 Oct
19:00
23:00
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Glanton Memorial Hall , Glanton, Northumberland
Sat 31 Oct
19:30
22:30
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Trinity Rooms Community Hub , Stroud, Gloucestershire
Sat 31 Oct
19:30
22:30
Sat 31 Oct
19:30
23:00
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St Chads Hall , Leeds, West Yorkshire
Sat 31 Oct
19:30
22:30
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Loundsley Green Community Centre , Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Sat 31 Oct
19:30
23:00
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Stretford Public Hall , Stretford, Greater Manchester
Sat 31 Oct
20:00
23:00
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Kenn Centre , Kennford, Devon
Sat 31 Oct
20:00
23:00
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Patcham Memorial Hall , Brighton, East Sussex
Sat 31 Oct
20:00
23:30
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The Round Chapel , London, Greater London
Sat 31 Oct
20:00
23:00
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The Edge , Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Sat 31 Oct
20:00
23:00
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Stoneyard Centre , Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Tuesday 3 November
Tue 3 Nov
14:00
15:30
Tue 3 Nov
20:00
22:00
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The Gregson Centre , Lancaster, Lancashire
Thursday 5 November
Thu 5 Nov
19:00
22:15
Dance
The Bedford , London, Greater London
Monday 9 November🌑 New moon
Dance clubs by county
Berkshire 1 Pop-up Ceilidh Reading · Occasional Thursday evenings in Reading, at South Street Arts Centre or Double-Barrelled Brewery in Tilehurst Bristol 2 Bristol Ceilidh Bristol · Occasional Friday and Saturday nights at Bristol Folk House Bristol Contra Bristol · One Friday a month, September to June Cambridgeshire 1 Contrabridge Cambridge · Usually the last Saturday of the month at the Stoneyard Centre, central Cambridge Derbyshire 2 Brampton Community Band Chesterfield · About four ceilidhs a year at Loundsley Green Community Centre, Chesterfield Mumpers Ceilidh Club Alvaston · Occasional Saturday ceilidhs at venues in and around Derby, running since 1979 Devon 2 Club Ceilidh Pinhoe · First Friday of the month in Exeter, usually the last Friday in Plymouth Exeter Ceilidhs Kennford · Occasional Saturdays at the Kenn Centre, Kennford Dorset 2 EuroBal Wessex Dorchester · Second Friday evening every other month at the Brownsword Hall, Poundbury, alternating with Sunday afternoons at Ibsley Kimmeridge Keilidh Kimmeridge · A Friday night barn dance most months in the village hall at The Etches Collection, with Arish Mel East Sussex 2 Brighton Ceilidh Collective Brighton · Rant ceilidh nights at One Church in central Brighton, on a Friday and often the Saturday after Dansez Français Brighton · A Saturday evening bal at Patcham Memorial Hall, north Brighton, with an optional bring-and-share supper beforehand Gloucestershire 1 Greater London 4 Cut A Shine London · A Saturday evening barn dance most months at the Round Chapel, Hackney, with occasional family afternoons London Balfolk London · Bal Étoile on the second Wednesday at Jamboree, King's Cross, and the last Wednesday at the Gipsy Queen, Kentish Town, w London Ceilidh Club London · Friday and Saturday nights most weeks at Cecil Sharp House, Grand Junction in Paddington and London Scottish House in We Waterloo Ceilidhs London · A Friday evening ceilidh every month or two at St John's Waterloo Greater Manchester 2 Hampshire 2 SHOCC Dances Chandler's Ford · A Saturday evening English ceilidh most months from October to April at The Hilt in Chandler's Ford WinQeilidh Winchester · A Friday evening most months, September to June, at Holy Trinity church hall, Winchester; none in July or August Kent 1 Contrafusion Hothfield · A Saturday ceilidh at Hothfield Village Hall every three months, weekly Tuesday afternoon dances in Maidstone and Sunday Leicestershire 2 Loughborough Folk Dance Club Woodhouse · Second and fourth Mondays at Woodhouse Community Hall, 7.30pm to 10pm Red Fox Ceilidhs Leicester · Five Saturday ceilidhs a year at the Church of the Martyrs Community Hall, Leicester Norfolk 1 Mardles Ceilidhs Costessey · Usually the second Friday of the month, October to May, at the Costessey Centre North Yorkshire 2 Tees Valley Ceilidhs Low Worsall · Third Friday of the month, September to June, at Worsall Village Hall York Ceilidh Club York · Third Sunday of the month, except August, at St Aelred's in Tang Hall Northumberland 1 Nottinghamshire 1 Nottingham Ceilidh Club Beeston · Friday nights about once a month at the Boat & Horses, Beeston Rylands, with special nights at other venues Oxfordshire 4 Balfolk Oxford Oxford · Fourth Sunday afternoon of the month at the Isis Farmhouse, Iffley Lock Oxfolk Ceilidhs Kennington · Second Saturday of the month, October to May, at Kennington Village Centre Oxford Contra Kennington · Three Saturday contra dances a season at Kennington Village Centre, run with Oxfolk White Horse Ceilidhs Grove · A Saturday every two months at Grove Village Hall, near Wantage Somerset 1 Bal Crewkerne Crewkerne · Sunday evenings every couple of months at the Speedwell Hall South Yorkshire 3 Home Grown Ceilidhs Sheffield · Sunday evening ceilidhs and Saturday afternoon family ceilidhs at the Broomhall Centre, Sheffield Sheffield CeilidhSoc Sheffield · Saturday ceilidhs in term time at The Edge, Endcliffe Sheffield Eurosession Sheffield · Second Thursday of the month at Shakespeare's, Kelham Island Suffolk 2 Tyne and Wear 3 Cullercoats Ceilidh Cullercoats · Occasional Saturday ceilidhs at St George's Church Hall, Cullercoats DIY Ceilidh Newcastle upon Tyne · Monthly Friday nights at The Lubber Fiend, Newcastle Tyneside Ceilidh Nights Gateshead · Second Tuesday of the month at Gateshead Masonic Hall, Bensham Warwickshire 1 Alcester Contras Alcester · Friday evenings most months from September to June at the Greig Hall, Alcester West Yorkshire 1 Leeds Contra Leeds · Occasional Saturday specials at St Chad's Hall, Far Headingley
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