Webfeet : Dancing on the Web

Webfeet is English Ceilidh, Folk Dance, Barn Dance, Bal Folk, Contra, Cajun, Morris... Index by County, Map, Links, Events listings.

Dance in the time of Corona:

Expect that events will be postponed or cancelled.
Webfeet will try to pick up and pass on cancellation announcements but make no assumptions; follow the links and see what the organiser's and band's home pages say. If you are a band or organiser and you cancel an event, update all your publicity to say so (gig list, facebook events pages, ticket agency pages etc, etc).
If webfeet is not picking up that an event is cancelled, email me.

News:

• Chester and Chippenham have joined up to run a Combined Online 2021 festival.
• The physical Upton Folk Festival 2021 won't be happening but a Remote Festival will.
• Halsway Manor now extended its closure until May 17th
• Folkopedia has moved, now at https://folkopedia.info
• Chippenham won't be running a full festival in 2021. Keep watch for details of a possible lighter Covid-Safe event...
• Cecil Sharp House closure extended until the end of the year
• The EFDSS are running a survey about the impact of Covid-19 on Folk Activities. Fill it in, it closes at the end of July
• Bromyard Folk Festival postponed to 2021.
• Whitby Folk Week postponed to 2021.
• Broadstairs Folk Week 2020 now cancelled.
• Warwick Folk Festival now also postponed to 2021.
• Towersey and Shrewsbury Festivals both postponed to 2021...
• Sidmouth Folk Festival 2020 is now cancelled.
• Earlier News...

• What's happening in the next month or more ...?
• Bands and Dance series - indexed by county or on a Map...
• Places where there's been dancing...

There are some online or streamed gigs. As above if you are running one and it is not listed as such, email me.

• Bal Folk ... Bourrées, Schottisches, An-Dro's ...
• Cajun ... from Louisiana ... well, Louisiana-ish.
• Contra Dance ...
• English Ceilidh ... The new wave of English Folk dance.
• English Folk ... or English Country Dance
  ... Barn Dances, Hops or Hoedowns - dancing under different names.
• Morris and Sword... Bells, sticks, swords and beer.

Searches the webfeet site and neighbouring pages.

• It's now possible to search for events, looking for example for gigs by a particular band, at a particular place or in a particular area.

Webfeet's annotated eceilidh dances, including:

• The Nottingham Swing, the Horse's Brawl, the Foula Reel, the Circassian Circle, La Chapelloise, Joe Taylor's Hornpipe, Portsmouth and the 'Rosa Waltz', Rozsa

And the associated Terms, Shorthand and Jargon

• The help file gives hints about finding your way round the Webfeet site better and a FAQ, containing some Occasionally Asked Questions
• The overview gives more background if you want dates and events included.

These pages are being maintained (in a manner of speaking) by Martin Kiff. Original content is licenced under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence.