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Contents

  • Summary of links to Solent Waves-listed Dance Sides, institutions and events
  • Summary of links to Solent Waves-listed (when they remember to send them in) Song Clubs and events with their own web pages
  • General External Links
  • Other Miscellaneous, mostly Southern Dance Events (see also link 1, the list of Solent Waves listed events)
  • Other Individual Traditional Dance Bands and Callers (see also SCoFF list of Southern Counties-based: Folk and Barn Dance Bands and Music/Song Artistes with a search engine).
  • Other Southern Counties (and National) Display Dance Links
  • Other Folk Networks, former EFDSS Regions and Fora (see also the EFDSS Site)
  • Summary of links to Solent Waves-listed Dance Sides, institutions and events:
  • Fleet FDC - 8-10pm 1st, 3rd & 4th Weds. Catholic Church Hall, Kings Road, Fleet.
  • Four Marks Folk Band with workshops at Four Marks Village Hall.
  • Chilworth [formerly Copythorne] Contras now moved to Chilworth Village Hall. Grid Ref: SU411184 Post Code: SO16 7JZ..
  • Hants Regency Dancers (formerly Austen Dancers)
  • King John's Morris, Southampton
  • New Forest Meddlars
  • Red Stags Morris, Southampton
  • Mr Baker’s Dozen, IOW
  • Sarum Morris, Salisbury
  • Victory Morris
  • Winchester Morris
    and see the FASH temporary pdf: winmorrism07.pdf
  • Wickham Morris, Wickham, Hants
  • Belles & Arrows Morris
  • Men of Wight Morris
  • Helier Morris Men, Jersey
  • Tricolex Morris
  • Hursley International Dancers
  • Hampshire Garland
  • Southern Lights Woolston-based ladies' traditional dance team
  • Chequered Flag (Appalachian Clog & Canadian Step Dance)
  • Metallo Bocca teenage Appalachian team based in Botley, Hampshire, UK.
  • Devil's Jumps & Minden Rose
    • Clog Dancers
  • Eastleigh Folk Dance Club (Believed currently without a web page).
  • Woodfidley
  • Sompting Village Morris
  • Bourne River Morris
  • M 27 Megabops
  • Oyster Girls
  • Haddenham Ceilidhs
  • Winchester MayFest
  • Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival

  • Summary of links to Solent Waves-listed (when they remember to send them in) Song Clubs and events with their own web pages:
  • Abbey Folk, Abbey Hotel, Church Street, Romsey, Hants. Second Thursday, Residents: Innominata
  • Nonsuch Folk Club, Tuesdays, Bishop's Waltham Social Club
  • St Denys’ Folk & Blues Club, Wednesdays, Southampton
  • Fo'c'sle Folk Club, Fridays, Southampton
  • Hambledon Folk, 2nd Wednesday, Hants.
  • Wessex Acoustic Poole, Mondays.
  • Forest Folk, Mondays, North Boarhunt Social Club, Trampers Lane, North Boarhunt, near Wickham, Hants
  • Madding Crowd West Gallery Group, Winchester & Chandlers Ford
  • Ringwood Folk Club, Tuesdays, Elm Tree Inn, Hightown, Ringwood
  • Woolston & Bursledon Folk Club, Sundays
  • Shep Woolley's Thorngate Halls Concerts, Gosport, Sundays
  • The Talking Heads Music Venue, Portswood, Southampton.
  • Dorset Traditional Arts Co-operative.
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    The following external links may also be of interest to Solent Waves readers

  • The Light-hearted Dance Weekends. A series of English Country Dance Weekends for Enthusiasts, led by John & Hilary Turner.
  • Guildford Folk Dance Club
  • Emsworth Folk Dance Club.
  • Salisbury Folk Dance Club.
  • Willingdon International Folk Dance Group (E.Sussex) 2-3:30/4pm, Weds term time, Willingdon Memorial Hall, Church Street, Willingdon,Eastbourne East Sussex. Silvia McIntyre 01323 502962.
  • Bexhill International Folk Dance Group 8:00 - 10:00 pm on the 1st & 3rd Thursday of each month (except August and 1st Thurs of Sept) Little Common Methodist Church Hall, Church Hill Avenue, Little Common, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex. Heather Edwards 01424 222382.
  • The EFDSS
  • SCoFF, The Southern Counties Folk Federation and their magazine Folk on Tap. Now includes a
  • list of Southern Counties-based: Folk and Barn Dance Bands and Music/Song Artistes with a search engine.
  • Webfeet: Martin Kiff's English Ceilidh, Folk, Morris, Cajun and French Traditional Dance and Band information, also with a search engine.
  • Set and Turn Single magazine with details of nation-wide traditional dance events maintained by Tony Kelly.
  • Forest Tracks the Hampshire based record company formed in the early seventies to produce records of the folk music of Hampshire and Dorset, now re-issuing albums in CD form including some fresh material.
  • Stepback project to bring greater awareness of traditional dance idiom to the academic and modern dance world.
  • Playing Out Loud Southampton-based Southern Counties Music Listings and Reviews website run by Peter Ashton.
  • English Folk Music An enthusiast's choice.
  • AADS Promote Dances & Music in Western Europe, have dance courses and a large sales division of dance material. (International, English, American, Historical, Scottish, Irish, Balkan, Scandinavian, …).
  • www.freefolk.com, an internet folk magazine edited by Mike Raven.
  • The Society for International Folk Dancing
  • Mainewoods Dance Camps, USA.
  • Folk Dance Association of the USA, including newsletter lists.
  • The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
  • Traditional Drama (Folk Play) Website from Peter Millington & Chris Little.
  • The Bitter End Shanty event and fact link information page.
  • International Circle Dance Information Archive
  • Musical Traditions Website including Musical Traditions Magazine which is now on the web (only) and includes articles by Dave Williams (died 4-9-97). This site also includes information about the newly-formed [UK] Traditional Song Forum Research & Collection Group, now moved to its Own Address.
  • Cajun Life and Times UK Cajun and Zydeco Resource - online version of the mag taking the place of Ron Knowles' previous 'Cajun Times'.
  • Cajun UK another UK Cajun and Zydeco Resource
  • The Folk Roots National Page including all known folk and international music festivals in this country and Europe.
  • Festival Focus - another guide to music festivals of all kinds.
  • The Folklore Society
  • Gallery Music (often known as "West Gallery"), an area on the World-Wide Web especially for people who research and enjoy the music sung by church and chapel bands in the 1700s and early 1800s. This set of pages page is a wide-ranging resource and includes a link to our local (Winchester) group Madding Crowd.
  • Celfyddydau Mari Arts (Folk Wales Home Page).
  • Irish Traditional Music & Dance
  • Irish-music.net CDs, Festivals, summer schools etc.
  • Irish Music Magazine news, views and more on the Irish Folk and Trad scene.
  • harp.net Festivals, Summerschools, Irish Harp Organisations, Albums, Magazines and a Harp Bulletin Board.
  • Ancient Music of Ireland
  • The North American Folk Alliance.
  • Halsway Manor in the South West of England, the only permanent residential folk music centre in the UK.
  • Folk Camps provides folk holidays for ten weeks and ten weekends per year.
  • Capers Folk Activity Camping Holidays, Taunton, Devon 01823 270754.
  • Albert Alchemy's music page: Yorks based "Entertainer" (Fire-eating, escapology, magic, stiltwalking, circus and comedy juggling) with a lot of useful links on his page.
  • Peter Optical All round folk entertainer - Storyteller, Poet, Singer, Musician, Magician, Mime, Stiltwalker, Juggler and Fire-eater. Better known and a favourite with children as the zany Professor Optical. See Southern Counties Artistes for contacts or for those with a little time to spare or a child to entertain try the Website!

  • Miscellaneous, mostly Southern Dance Events (see also the list of Solent Waves listed events at the top of the page)
  • free French music & dance at Chippenham, Wilts - 2nd Sunday 8pm at the Old Road Tavern; Brian Tilley tel: 01225 810268.
  • Beckenham Hops First Friday, South-East London Kent border.
  • Newick Ceilidhs Newick Village Hall, last Saturday of the month.
  • Meltdown Ceilidhs Haywards Heath, Sussex
  • Alterations informative Contra-Dance site with events and background.

  • Other Individual Traditional Dance Bands and Callers (see also SCoFF list of Southern Counties-based: Folk and Barn Dance Bands and Music/Song Artistes with a search engine).
  • John Turner Caller for all occasions, traditional, Playford, contemporary, beginners and experts, also FASH Secretary and Hampshire Garland Musician, based in Southampton
  • Captain Driver's Delight (Lol & Annie Herklots, Jon Foyle, & Mac) barn dance band featuring bagpipes of all shapes and sizes and a guitarist with a stunning resemblance to Souls of Fire's percussionist...
  • Rattlebones Ceilidh and Barn Dance Band
  • Durley Outlaws Line Dance Club, Durley (Hants) Village Hall, Monday mornings and Thursday evenings.
  • Banish Misfortune Barn Dance Band.
  • Fee Lock ceilidh caller in the 'English Ceilidh' style.
  • Motley five piece band, been around for 15 years and comprise accordion,flute,fiddle,banjo/mandola and guitar. As well as the usual barn dances we play for a lot of international folk dances/weddings and bar mitzvahs. Motley have just released their first CD called 'Newport Convention' and, as the name suggests, we can be found at The Newport Inn, Braishfield, Hants on a Thursday night. Jenny Hayter (+44) (0)2380 663282 or jennyhayter@yahoo.co.uk.
  • Ray Sargent. "You could blow all your treasurer's funds on a whole variety of entertainment, or you could get in touch with Ray Sargent and ask him about his One Man Ceilidh." Singer, choreographer and multi-instrumentalist with just enough recorded backing to transform the whole thing into an ensemble! From Elizabethan to Buddy Holly with the emphasis on the Folk in between (he'll rock if you ask) - and he calls the dances.
  • Pass the Buck Ceilidh/Barn Dance Band with Caller Jennet Lambert.
  • Pugwash English & Irish Ceilidh Band working Kent and East Sussex, with occasional forays into Surrey, London and Essex.
  • The Woodpecker Band
  • Woodsiders Barn Dance Band, Southampton.
  • Spike Island Band (Spike Island is the old name for Sholing, a district of Southampton). A versatile six-piece barn dance band. At any one time there will be up to six of accordion, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, banjo, recorder, flute, keyboard, bass, drums. Takes bookings within about an hour's drive of Southampton.
  • The Bursledon Village Band with Dave Ingledew.
  • Old Pull & Push Barn Dance Band, Bournemouth
  • Red Hot Reeds three piece English Ceilidh & Barn Dance Band (concertina and melodeons) based in Southern Hampshire.

  • Other Southern Counties (and National) Display Dance Links
  • Red Stags Southampton-based Border Morris
  • Andy Anderson's Home Page with Red Stags and other Border Morris information and links
  • Jo Rihan's Dance Pages
  • Jackstraws Morris Womens Cotswold Morris side from Farnborough, Hants UK
  • Hook Eagle Morris
  • Samhain Morris, Southampton
  • BasingClog Morris
  • OBJ Border Morris Bracknell, Berks
  • Reading Cloggies
  • Alton Morris mixed Border Morris.
  • Babylon Border Morris based in the small Dorset village of Corscombe
  • Bluefields Appalachian Dancers Bridgewater, Somerset
  • Datchet Border Morris Nr Windsor.
  • Ellington Morris mixed Cotswold, Maidenhead.
  • Hart and Sole Clog Morris North-West mixed Morris around Bracknell, Crowthorne and Wokingham.
  • Kennet Morris Men Reading.
  • Mayflower Morris, a team of women dancers, based in Ash, on the Surrey Hampshire borders, specialising in North West Morris (the team was formed by the wives and girlfriends of the Pilgrim Morris Men of Guildford).
  • Minden Rose Alton Garland Dancers.
  • Pilgrim Morris Men, Guildford.
  • Taeppa's Tump Ladies' North-West Morris based at Maidenhead.
  • Hobos Morris Ladies Border Morris side based at Poole, Dorset.
  • Treacle Eater Clog Yeovil
  • Wessex Morris Men based at Pulham
  • The Morris Federation Home Page
  • The Morris Ring Home Page
  • Morris Site Links Page

  • Other Folk Networks, former EFDSS Regions and Fora (see also the EFDSS Site)
  • Wiltshire Folk Association.
  • Traditional Dance, Music & Song in South West Surrey.
  • SEFAN South East Folk Arts Network, the folk arm of South-East Arts, the now merged S & SE Boards.
  • Folk South East (FSE) is a collective name for events put on by various promoters around the south-East of England. Until the death of John Smedley in 2004, Folk FSE was an important promoter in its own right of concert-style folk performances. More recently, FSE has continued as an 'umbrella organisation' for other promoters, such as Acoustic Sussex (various venues in mid-Sussex); Acoustic Music at themickjaggercentre, Dartford; and Folk at The Pavilion (New Ash Green, Kent).
  • Somerset & Dorset Folk Events
  • South Yorkshire Folk
  • Folk around Bristol
  • Devon District Folk Committee
  • South Devon Folk Events
  • Norfolk Folk Association
  • Bucks ditto
  • Staffs, Worcs, Warwicks amd W. Midlands ditto
  • East Midlands Folk Pages
  • Spire Folk Derbyshire (East Midlands) Folk Organisation
  • Peterborough Folk Diary
  • Lancashire Folk Association
  • South Riding Folk Network
  • Folk Dance and Song Group of the Camping and Caravanning Club

    • (For a more extensive set of song-related links you are invited to refer to:)

  • The Fo'c'sle Home Page.
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    Submitted by Trevor Gilson (to whom technical queries and requests for additional links only) and Edited by Dennis Wheeler, Penshurst, Vicarage Lane, Swanmore, Hants SO32 2PW 01489 892911 editor@fash.org.uk (to whom all other enquiries and requests for inclusion of events and venues).