Schedule

2020

• 25-26 January 2020 – Teaching at Mini percussive dance festival during Celtic Connections, Glasgow
• CANCELLED 21 March 2020 – Eyemouth Hippodrome, Eyemouth with Stepling >> More info
• CANCELLED 22 March 2020 – Shakespeare’s, Sheffield with Stepling >> More info
• CANCELLED 25 March 2020 – Old Laundry Theatre Bowness-on-Windermere with Stepling >> More info
• CANCELLED 28 March 2020 – Old King’s Head, Belper with Stepling >> More info
• CANCELLED 29 March 2020 – Sarah Thorne Theatre, Broadstairs with Stepling >> More info
• CANCELLED 2 April 2020 – Green Note, Folk on Monday, London with Stepling >> More info
• CANCELLED 3 April 2020 – House Concert, Norwich with Stepling
• CANCELLED 4 April 2020 – Crowborough Arts, The United Church, Croft Road, Crowborough with Stepling >> More info
• CANCELLED August 2020 – Sidmouth Folk Festival
• CANCELLED 11-12 August 2020 – Broadstairs Folk Week with Stepling
• CANCELLED 6 September 2020 – London Folk Festival with Stepling

2019

• 26-27 February 2019 – Common Treads event (teaching, seminar, performance) at Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
• 2-3 March 2019 – Workshops and Performance, Aberdeen
• 5 March 2019 – “Up Next” gala, National Theatre, London
• 30 March 2019 – Workshop day for Ryknild Rabble, Lichfield
• 21 July 2019 – Stainsby Festival with Stepling
• 2-9 August 2019 – Sidmouth Folk Festival with Scott Hartley and Instep Research Team
• 21-23 August 2019 – Whitby Folk Week with Stepling
• 21 September 2019 – Duffield Arts Festival with Stepling
• 16 November 2019 – Organiser, performer and one of the callers for Step Ceilidh Party Ceceil Sharp House, London
• 16-17 November 2019 – Conference organiser Stepping on: A conference on Stepping in Dance

2018

• 14 February 2018 – The Old Oak, Horsley Woodhouse with Francis | Bennett | Hartley
• 17 February 2018 – Workshop for Rabble Cloggies in Lichfield
• 5-7 March 2018 – Irish World Academy of Music and Dance teaching at Limerick University
• 6-7 May 2018 – Upton Folk Festival with Stepling
• 29 June – 1 July 2018 – Newcastleton Traditional Music Festival with Francis | Bennett | Hartley
• 11-15 July 2018 – North Atlantic Fiddle Convention, Aberdeen, with Francis | Bennett | Hartley
• 3-10 August 2018 – Sidmouth FolkWeek with Instep Research Team
• 14 October 2018 – Horsham Folk Club with Stepling
• 15 October 2018 – The Bell Inn, Bath with Stepling, Facebook event
• 21 October 2018 – Stanstead Abbots Ceilidh Society Concert with Stepling, Facebook event
• 23 October 2018 – Shakespeare’s, Sheffield with Stepling, Facebook event, Book tickets
• 24 October 2018 – The Slaughtered Lamb, London with Stepling, ALBUM LAUNCH Book tickets
• 26 October 2018 – The Queen’s Head, Belper with Stepling, Facebook event

2017

• 18 Feb 2017 – Dancing England performing at the revival of this national showcase of English traditional dance with Scott Hartley
• 10 April 2017 – Full Moon Club, Shap Fell Bothy with Francis | Bennett | Hartley and Sue Allan
• 11 April 2017 – Lakeland Fiddlers’ Session, Staveley Beer Hall, Cumbria with Francis | Bennett | Hartley and Sue Allan
• 12 April 2017 – Cumbrian “Merrie Neet” with Francis | Bennett | Hartley and Sue Allan, Carlisle
• 19-20 May 2017 – Shepley Spring Festival with Stepling
• 1 July 2017 – Step Up North, Richmond North Yorkshire, workshops and performance
• 18 July 2017 – St Neots Folk Club with Stepling
• 6-11 Aug 2017 – Sidmouth Folk Week with Instep Research Team and Scott Hartley
• 14-15 Aug 2017 – Broadstairs Folk Week with Stepling
• 20-22 Aug 2017 – Whitby Folk Week with Stepling
• 26-27 Aug 2017 – Shrewsbury Folk Festival with Scott Hartley
• 2 Sept 2017 – London Folk Festival with Stepling

2016

• 6 August 2016 – Bath Folk Festival with Stepling
• 8-10 July 2016 – Priddy Folk Festival with Stepling
• 2 July 2016 – Harwich Festival of the Arts with Stepling
• 13-14 Feb 2016 – Lancashire Wallopers Weekend of Clog teaching Advanced Lakeland Step Dance workshop
• 6-7 Feb 2016 – Keswick Theatre by the Lake Teaching two workshops (beginners Saturday, improvers masterclass Sunday) with Carolyn Francis
• 1-3 Feb 2016 – Irish World Academy of Music and Dance teaching at Limerick University
• 25 Jan 2016 – Roehampton University Lecture and workshop to BA Dance students on English step dancing
• 16 Jan 2016 – Derbyshire Volunteers Traditional Mid-winter Revels with Stepling

2015

• 2-4 October 2015 – Derby Folk Festival
• 9 August 2015 – Lake District Folk Weekend with Carolyn Francis and Scott Hartley, workshop and performance
• 3 August 2015 – Stepling at Sidmouth Folk Week (plus workshop)
• 13 June 2015 – Derbyshire Eco Centre with Nick Wray
• 22-25 May 2015 – Chippenham Folk Festival with Scott Hartley
• 11 January 2015 – Stepling at Hitchin Folk Club

2014

• 18-22 August 2014 – Whitby Folk Week with Carolyn Francis
• 16 August 2014 – Stepling at Tribal Earth Summer Gathering
• 9-11 August 2014 – Broadstairs Folk Week with Carolyn Francis and Scott Hartley
• August 2014 – Sidmouth Folk Week with Scott Hartley and INSTEP
• 21 July 2014 – Stepling at Green Note, Camden with Said the Maiden
• 28-29 June 2014 – English Country Music Weekend with Scott Hartley and Carolyn Francis
• 14 May-18 June 2014 – Lakeland Step Dance Course at Cecil Sharp House
• 10 May 2014 – May in a Day at Cecil Sharp House performance and workshop for EFDSS
• 27 April 2014 – Lakeland Music and Step Dance Workshop, with Carolyn Francis, Jackson’s Lane, London
• 29 March 2014 – Lakeland Step Dance Workshop for the Westmorland Step and Garland Dancers, Kendal, Cumbria
• 24 March 2014 – Green Note, Camden with Jo May and Debs Chalmers: the new, as yet unnamed, trio! Support for The Will Pound Band
• 9 March 2014 – One Day Clog Workshop for NYFTE, National Youth Folklore Troupe of England
• 25-27 February 2014 – Teaching at Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, Limerick
• 24 February 2014 – Green Note, Camden with Jo May and Debs Chalmers: the new, as yet unnamed, trio! Support for Jess and Richard Arrowsmith
• 13 February 2014 – Islington Folk Club – Clog and Fiddle with Scott Hartley

2013

• August 14-16, 2013 – Broadstairs Folk Week. Clog and Fiddle with Carolyn Francis of Striding Edge (http://www.striding-edge.org/)
• August 7-9, 2013 – Sidmouth Folk Week with Instep Research Team, and fiddle players Carolyn Francis and Scott Hartley
• July 12-14, 2013 – Furness Tradition Festival Clog and Fiddle with Carolyn Francis.
• June 25, 2013 – Tales and Trails event with Taffy Thomas, Storyteller’s Garden, Grasmere.
• May 24-28, 2013 – Chippenham Folk Festival Clog and Fiddle with Scott Hartley. http://www.chippfolk.co.uk/
• Jan 2013 – With Striding Edge in Cumbria with Carolyn Francis

Selected earlier gigs…

• 2012 – Trad Academy, London: Flatfooting class
• 2012 – East Anglian Traditional Music Trust, Traditional Music Day, Stowmarket, Suffolk: performance
• 2012 – William Irwin Weekend, Langdale, Cumbria: performance with Alex Fisher (clog) and Carolyn Francis (Fiddle)
• 2012 – Instep Research Team, Cecil Sharp House, London: Lakeland step dance Workshop
• 2011 – Shrewsbury Folk Festival: Main stage show ‘Clogfest’ as part of Stony Steppers
• 2010 – Kit & Cutter Folk Club, Deptford, London: performance with Keith Kendrick
• 2009 – Lancashire Walloper’s Weekend: advanced Lakeland workshop
• 2008 – Shrewsbury Folk Festival: workshop and dancing with Stony Steppers
• 2008 – Workshop Stony Stratford: open workshop for Stony Steppers
• 2007 – Chippenham Folk Festival: workshops and dancing with Stony Steppers
• 2005 – Bridgnorth Folk Festival: with Stony Steppers

and before that…

• Founder member of Touchwood
• Nottingham University Folk Dance Society (clog, rapper, Cotswold morris)
• Lady of the Lake Festival, Spokane, Washington, USA: performance and workshops
• Chippenham Folk Festival with Touchwood (twice): performance and workshops
• Ludus Dance, Lancaster: Appalachian Clogging workshop
• Inter Varsity Folk Dance Festival: various years, various performances and workshops, English clog, Appalachian Clogging, West Coast Swing