Jan. 31, 2006, 3:18 p.m. (Message 43990)
Hi all, Well, just to prove that most young people in the UK don't care, the Inter Varisty *Folk* Dance Festival 2006, will be holding a Scottish *Country* Dance as part of the procedings on the 25th February 2006. Everyone of every age* and ability is welcome. Visit http://www.ivfdf.ucam.org/ for details of the programme, tickets and venue. (Which are respectively aimed at new dancers, available by post or on the door and in Nether Hall School, Cambridge.) The festival lasts all weekend. We have Scottish workshops: Beginers and Intermediate Country Classes; Highland and Ladies Step (now surely Ladies Step is not "folk"...); and an SCD conversion course for all the... erm... folk dancers who know the moves but not the names. Andrew Kellett will be coming from London to teach the beginners, as well as our local teachers Alison Gundy, Kirsty Urquhart and Carmel McEniery. In addition there is a weekend of various dance workshops from Bharata Natyam to Kentucky Running Set, Maypole to Rock'n'Roll. More than 40 all together. For music, we'll be importing Sandy Brechin from Scotland, and bringing contra from Ohio in the form of Changeling and Diane Silver, as well as showcasing the best English folk and country dance bands from the Southeast of England. I'm pretty sure there'll be some informal kilt wearing too... IVFDF is grateful to the RSCDS and Ron Nedderman for financial support. Hope to see some of you there (and sorry that some of you live too far away... although we have people coming from the US, Germany and France.) Adam Cambridge, UK. * Under 18s must be accompanied by an adult at all times. ___________________________________________________________ NEW Yahoo! Cars - sell your car and browse thousands of new and used cars online! http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/