The Round: Cambridge University English Country Dance Club

Cambridge University English Country Dance Club

Weekly Round meetings are now well underway every Thursday from 8pm in Wesley Church Hall, King Street. No experience or partner required and your first time is free.

Next year's IVFDF is here in Cambridge! IVFDF is the national student folk festival, and the zaniest festival in the country. It'll be on 24th-26th February 2006, in Netherhall Schools, Queen Edith's Way. Whatever you do, don't miss it!

Join the band! If you play an instrument and fancy playing for some of our ceilidhs, tell Emma Darby (ed251@cam.ac.uk). You don't need to have played for folk before.

Don't forget to sign up to the Round mailing list! Mail soc-round-request@lists.cam.ac.uk to join.

Club stuff

About the Round
Diary of events
Ceilidhs
The Big Round Band
The Playford Ball
The Punt Party
The Summer Round
The Inter-Varsity Folk Dance Festival
Maps to meetings and events

Photo gallery
The committee
Mailing lists you should be on
Links to further information
Our constitution
Core repertoire of dances
Dave's instructions for the PA
Hugh's history of the Round
Dance history of dances called at the weekly Round
The Old Round
Web site credits

Dance and music resources

Index of resources on this site
What are Playford dances? Includes a Playford family tree
Elements of English Country Dance (comprehensive explanation of Country Dance terminology)
Notes on Calling
The Perfect Caller
Palmer's Pocket Playford (an aide-memoire of common Playford dances)
Kentucky Running Set (as danced by the Round)
The Country Dance Book (original Cecil Sharp publications which started all of this).
The Round Band Book of Playford (music to Palmer's Pocket Playford)
The Round Band Music Book (more music)

Last modified: 17 October 2005
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