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Promoting folk dance and song in Leicester Leicestershire and Rutland


	Promoting folk dance, song and music in Leicester, Leicestershire, Rutland and the surrounding area

		Representing local members of the English Folk Dance and Song Society

Publicise your club and folk activities on this website. Click on Contact Us to submit details of events, meetings and news or to promote your services on this site as a caller, musician or a band

AGM
The EFDSS Leicestershire & Rutland District Folk AGM will be held on
Monday, 6 September 2010 at Glenfield Memorial Hall, Stamford Road, Glenfield, LE3 8DL

Meet at 7.30pm, start with a couple of dances, have a cup of tea of coffee before the AGM itself at 8.00pm and continue
with more dancing afterwards. Under the constitution only members of the EFDSS plus one representative from each affiliated club
in the District are entitled to vote at the AGM, but others are very welcome to attend the meeting and join in the dancing.
There’s no charge. Phone 0116 2858352

Folk Dance Workshop
for teachers, dancers and group leaders
Sunday, 12 September 2010, 9.30am - 1.30pm
at Countesthorpe Village Hall, LE8 5TB
learn sword dancing, hornpipes, maypole, broom dance and lots more with inspirational teacher
Jane Pfaff
The workshop is free of charge, but please enrol by
emailing Patsy or phoning 0116 2776259
Supported by Dance Development for Leicester Shire & Rutland


	Leicester Playford Ball A few tickets still available 7.30 - 11.00, Saturday, 9 October 2010 Braunstone Civic Centre, LE3 2PP Hilary Herbert with The Falconers - £14 including supper Tickets from Keith Oughton, 229 Hinckley Road, Leicester Forest East, Leicester, LE3 3PH. Phone 0116 2387385 or click here to buy tickets securely on-line (subject to availability)

EFDSS Christmas Carols & Customs Concert
Coach trip to Cecil Sharp House
Sunday, 19 December 2010
Coach leaves Quorn (opposite Royal Oak), LE12 8DT, at 10.00am
and picks up at County Hall, LE3 8RA, in Glenfield at 10.30
Tea Dance in the afternoon 2.00 - 5.00pm
Concert in the evening 7.00 - 10.00pm
Coach returns at 10.15pm
Tickets from Jenny Crane. Click here to download full details and an application form
or click here to buy tickets securely on-line


	Go to the What’s On Page to see details of other events in and around the District through to 2012

Date Added	What’s New on other pages
21 Aug 2010	Added information to the What’s On page about the Rushden Playford Ball on 2 October 2010 and Autumn Folk Dance on 16 October 2010
18 Aug 2010	Go to the News page to see the latest (August 2010) Newsletter
22 June 2010	Added information to the What’s On page about a Scottish Ceilidh Dance for all-comers to be held at the Y Theatre Studio in Leicester on Friday, 24 September, 2010
21 June 2010	Added information about the Derby Traditional Music & Arts Festival and Playford Ball on the first weekend in October to the What’s On page. Also added information about song and music sessions run by the Grand Union Folk Club on Monday evenings at the Soar Bridge Inn In Barrow upon Soar to the Song & Music page
3 June 2010	Added a report from Ian Paterson on the 2010 Leicester St. George’s Festival
12 May 2010	Added a new dedicated page on this website for the Jerusalem Jammers Ladies Garland dance team. Access it via the Display Teams page. Please contact the webmaster if you would like a dedicated page on this website for your group
5 Apr 2010	Added a new dedicated page on this web site on Maypole Dancing. Access it via the What’s On page


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		This page last updated on 21 August, 2010