The 2010 Wateraid Ceilidhs are being planned. 16th October is the date, keep it free to dance, twist the arms of your
favourite bands to play, hatch wild plans to drag friends and relations along...
Webfeet's had a retread,
after a decade and a half it's finally had a few Web magic thingies
added. Recent browsers should show now the site
like this,
older browsers will show it
more like
it was
originally.
If it's not looking right, send a note
to the weaver.
The Bismarcks, or the Bismarck Herrings,
have revamped their site, now simpler-with-more-info. See it at thebismarcks
The results of the BBC Folk awards
are out.
The winner in the Dance Band category used
saxes and brass and elements of jazz and ska to riotous effect.
Now that's the business... :-)
John Turner
has put up some pages about his calling and dance weekends
Slightly off topic, but in celebration of the release of the new
Firefox
browser, Webfeet has RSS Feeds for the
news and
events pages. If you download Firefox try the feeds....
The Folk Awards
voting site
is now up and running with an
aide memoire
for people who forget which bands are which (who are Rampant?)
The Radio 2 Folk Awards will be including a 'Best Dance Band'
category, see the
discussion on their board. As mentioned in the thread, get thinking :-)
Two other more formal addresses,
Sheffield University Ceilidh Society is at
www.ceilidhsoc.org and
the Intervarsity Folk Dance Festival is at
www.ivfdf.org.
Reel Dance
have an update covering the new
Keir Hardie
Ceilidhs (the Third Thursday Ceilidhs of old, now the third Wednesday).
New sites get emailed in, other sites moved....
Phoenix
English Country Barn Dance Band (maybe not to be confused with
Phoenix Ceilidhs) and
Captain Swing has a new site.
Webfeet's been asleep for a while, but prodded into wakefulness by
Blowzabella's
new site set up for their 25th anniversary and Contra/Ceilidh's
Fiddlin' Around's
pages.
There were two Desperate Measures? No, there are
three Desperate Measures. Distinguish between Kent's Desperates,
Yorkshire's
Desperate Measures
and Leicestershire's Desperate Measures (now called
Jigabit).
They are apparently all different.
All Blacked Up
one of the first eCeilidh bands on the web have relaunched their site.
Two new Barn Dance Bands from the North of England,
Drop of a Hat
and the
Stompin' Hooley Band.
(Now, somebody has an inspired choice of domain name :-)
More new homes and removals, web pages carefully packed up and
planted again with new addresses -
Kick Shins,
Banish Misfortune and
Pigzear Ceilidh Band
Cat's Whisker's Band (Worcestershire edition) have arrived with a site with
dance descriptions, some ABC and tunes.
New
Green Man reviews -
Bedlam's
Evolution and
a pageful of
Cambembert, Jabadaw, Kick Shins,
All Blacked Up, Geckoes and Widdershins.
(Bedlam? Comfortable? an English Pub? Strange....)
No new news for a while, people must be dancing not web authoring... one,
whups make that two, have crept in: Tyre Kickers Ceilidhs
Ray Sargent's One Man Ceilidh
Beyond Old Hog, there's Samain (if I've read
the 'about' pages right..).
Lancashire Folk
Association have created a local site full of north west details
Webfeet creaks back into life again after its winter hibernation,
with a 'Happy New Year' and news of the
Shindy Arts
site containing details of
Asha,
The Kitchen Girls,
Token Women
and Rock the Boat
Through a glass, darkly.... the
Eastbourne International Folk Festival
has launched a site. The news page does seem a bit dark at the moment
but in there is a 4th May date for next year...
Bridport Ceilidhs
are back with a vengence... how else would you describe
a series restarting with
Jabadaw?
A new arrival and a couple of moves; welcome the
Goose and Gridiron Band
and change the bookmarks for
This Way Up and
Scallywag.
Difficult to say Webfeet is a carefully maintained, up-to-date resource, the
Jellied Reels
apparently moved to their new site three years ago....
A clutch of new URLs from
Great Western,
creeping in just at the last moment before webfeet's Sidmouth vacation.......
Roll up the new
Great Western Ceilidhs page and the one-off, extra special, lottery funded
Hokus
event (with Bedlam....)
Two contrasting bands for the lists; Boa
now have a site for French/Breton round Hove and
Bracken Rigg,
Traditional Accordian band with a line in Barn Dances.
No time for comments on this rush of sites - there's the Ceilidhs round Sheffield
pages - a flood of barn dance bands
Devil's Fire,
Flat Cats,
Neck of the Wood, Clutching at Straws,
the Old School band, the
Rantabout Barn Dance Band.
Striding Edge.
The apparently 'loose and elastic'
Lucy 'Lastic band and
Tudor Ceilidh, which sounds, maybe unusual and certainly has a good domain name... Then there's the agencies
Heaven Entertainment and
the Mary Panton Agency (the last of which I ought to have noticed ages ago!)
... and the flow of new sites keeps on;
Contradance in Edinburgh
and the barn dance Bucket Band join the stream.
The elcectic
Workhouse
(remember Earthworks?) online with btinternet.
A clutch of useful info around
Hemlock Music;
a new dance series West London, Reeling in Ealing
kicking off with Cock and Bull in December, and
Michael Catovsky's
contact page.
The FAB, or Folk around Bristol, site is moving (slightly), now kept on
eis.
The highly English Ceilidh This Way Up
are floating their pages on Compuserve.
MADE, the force
behind the Kinnersley Castle events, have pages on fsnet.
I've just been pointed to the Nottingham Folk and Acoustic Music Shop
which has links to Bellows, Scratchitt and Pluckitt
and the folk/rock/jazz/dance/ceilidh
Five go off...
Hekety, stepping upon the world stage with a
.com domain name (now migrated to .co.uk)
And there's
Scallywag - English Ceilidh / Irish mix
Some sites you miss when they first come out....
Wild Goose Recordings
for example and Working Party Music
Megabops have moved - or rather the site with the details - see
the new home.
A 'Thank You Jo' for running them for all these years and good
luck to them in the future.
Lawrence Heath has built a site for
Godalming Ceilidhs.
Knit Your Own Yoghurt have a started on Freeserve.
The
Woodsiders have moved out to Tripod (and since to ntlworld!)
There's
Tollhouse,
the theatre company who also do dances and family ceilidhs
(as a three person band), and the
Fen Blow
English Country Dance Band which is the name of the slightly larger group...
Citizen Camembert,
of the euro/eceilidh tendency, are online on lineone.
Euro/eCeilidh
RSVP,
also braving freeserve's waters...
Colin Hume
has moved his site, and GUSTO's,
sideways now reappearing on freeserve.
Stirrings,
Little Pot Records, the
English Festival Newsletter and the
Folk Zone
continue their dance among the domain names. They've now settled with a name of their own, good luck and a stable future :-)
Liverpool Country Dance Band have burst forth on X-stream....
Meanwhile, in strange juxtaposition, the
Welsh Folk Dance society have come up with a (yet another?) page....
Another band with a Sax, Strapped for Cash,
at home at Zen.
Bob Taberner's been wielding some clever scripting to provide
a series of drop down events lists for the West Midlands.
[There's also a plain html version for people without IE or who have scripting disabled]
Old Hog's trufflehunting on the Web...
How many top rate Eceilidh bands without a web page now? The
Geckoes
have appeared on Demon
Demon have been doing well. Details of the
Newcastle Cloggies dance weekend have appeared as part of the
Newcastle Cloggies
pages and
Burning Bridges,
the young Ceilidh Band, have also have their pages there.
Leading UK Cajun band, Ti-Fer's Home Page is now released
Five Bar'd Gait [archive]
have translocated, uprooting pages from Compuserve and replanting them at Virgin
The George Inn Giant Ceilidh Band (or
GiG CB's)
pagewithpictures popped up.
Brian Scowcroft has launched his Barn dance and Ceilidh
dance collection (now on the wayback machine)
To the Magic Bush Brothers - the first home page
where you can book the band online.
At least one of the Off The Rails has a home page
and their own domain name (since moved).
Herbal Remedy Dance Band have a nice looking
home page
(It's arranged as a table so the browser will probably only show the
page when it has finished downloading it.)
The
Bursledon Village Band
page has popped up on Demon after not having got through to BTinternet.
The
Ryburn Three Step
pages now live in (www.)Salford (...and moved again)
Two Manchester based bands have arrived -
Five Bar'd Gait are (were, see the later news) sampling the delights of Compuserve and
Jabadaw
(with
mirror).
Walthamstow Barn Dances have their program on the Web.
To add to the rush of dance sites appearing on Compuserve,
In Tandem
have appeared with info on
Knees Up North
and their St Helens
EuroCeilidhs.
Then there's Rannygazoo's
and
All Blacked Up's pages -
although ABU may stay on Compuserve or go and hide somewhere else.