Webfeet: English Folk Dance index

The English Folk dance index; convering English Country Dancing, Folk Dancing, Social Dancing and so on.... There are many names or desciptions for this style of dance...

• Index of English Folk Dance or Barn Dance Bands and Callers
• Index of English Ceilidh Bands
• Folk dance and Ceilidh Events and clubs - dance series and one-off's
• Track listing and samples - biased towards English Ceilidh Bands at the moment

• Events in the next month
• The full list

and Tony Kelly's Set and Turn Single site.

You can search the webfeet site and neighbouring pages for bands and dances:

• Bob Archer's descriptions of the English and US dance scenes

• EFDSS and Cecil Sharp House site
  ...and some history and context of the EFDSS and dance scene by Colin Hume.
• NYFTE, the National Youth Folkfore Troupe of England

• EFDSS Education Department
  • Education Catalogue
• Folk In Education - FIE
  • Children's Dance Packs

• Stephen Woodcock's video introduction to Barn Dancing.

• The Round's
  • Collected index of dances, this is the source.
  • Descriptions of a whole list of dance elements
  • Transcriptions of as much of the Country Dance Book that is out of copyright
• John Brown's index of dances
• The English Country Dance Database index of titles, authors, recordings etc
• The EFDSS's Folkopedia has started an index of 20th Century dances
• Some sleeve notes include dance descriptions:
  • The Committee Band's notes on the Dancemusic CD
  • Stocai's Dances for the Champagne Brawl
• Webfeet also has a small collection of Annotated eCeilidh dances.

• Bob Archer's - dances
• Bob Archer's and Mike Courthold's notes... for (or from) their 1998 Sidmouth Caller's Workshops and Mike Courthold's Art of Calling doc.
• A.J.Doyle's Ellis Knowles manuscripts... on the Plain Brown Wrapper Band page.
• Thomas Green's excellent
  • Dance Collection, indexed by formation and by name
  • List of resources
  • Caller's Check List
• Colin Hume's
  • Notes on the 2001 Playford Conference and the 2003 Dolmetsch Historical Dance Conference
• Richard Mason's Dances
• Brian Scowcroft's English Country Dance Archive
• Hugh Stewart's Cambridge Contra Dance... pages with...
  • A collection of Contra dance descriptions...
• Anthony Stone's Notes on Calling...

Plus:

• Mr Red collated the tips discussed on the eCeilidh list
• ... and some Scottish Ceilidh dances appear quite at home in English Ceilidh

• Richard Robinson's tune book for folk and Morris tunes.
• Eric Foxley's's Music Database.
• Chris Walshaw's tune collection in 'ABC' format for folk and Morris tunes.
  • Index of tunes (large!)

• Derek Kingscote's guide to organising a Barn Dance
• Spike Island Band have some hints on things to consider.
• Plus, the Barn Dances and how to make them work page.
• More hints and pointers in the English Ceilidh area.