[[events]]
name = "Afternoon of Dance"
links = ["https://friendsofenglishdance.org.uk/events/fed-afternoon-of-dance/"]
start = "2025-06-01T14:30:00+01:00"
end = "2025-06-01T17:30:00+01:00"
country = "UK"
city = "Egham"
styles = ["contra", "ecd"]
workshop = false
social = true
bands = ["Box of Frogs"]
callers = ["Brooke Friendly"]
price = "£13-£15"
organisation = "Friends of English dance"
source = "events/uk/egham.yaml"

[[events]]
name = "Welwyn Garden FDC 75th Anniversary"
links = ["https://wgcfolkdanceclub.weebly.com/special-dances.html"]
start = "2025-06-12T20:00:00+01:00"
end = "2025-06-12T22:00:00+01:00"
country = "UK"
city = "Welwyn Garden City"
styles = ["ecd"]
workshop = false
social = true
bands = ["Box of Frogs"]
callers = ["Mark Elvins"]
price = "£5"
organisation = "Welwyn Garden City Folk Dance Club"
source = "events/uk/knebworth.yaml"

[[events]]
name = "Contrabridge"
details = """
Join us for our contra dance with Box of Frogs with calling from Louise Siddons.

Two of the most exciting players on the Contra dance scene. With creative, colourful accordion player Ali Messer (Blue Mountain, Alterations, Fat Harry, Fiddle Chicks) and high energy fiddling from Linda Game (ECDB, Token Women) expect an evening of fabulous dance music. Box the gnat and swat the flea, but can you spot the frog?

Louise Siddons was born in the UK but moved to the United States as a child, where she grew up  surrounded by folk music and song. Now back in the UK permanently, she is known on both sides of  the Atlantic as a contra, English country dance, and ceilidh caller. Louise believes that we  should invest in the evolution and sustainability of folk traditions and their ongoing relevance  to contemporary culture. As a caller and dance teacher, she strives to create a fun and welcoming  atmosphere with her low-key and light-hearted stage presence. She received the 2016 Mary  Judson/Brad Foster Award for English Dance Teachers from the Country Dance and Song Society  (CDSS), and has been a committee member for the Friends of English Dance (UK) since 2018. In 2021,  she received a diversity grant from the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) in support of  her gender-free teaching and calling. In 2022, CDSS published her booklet on gender-free,  positional calling, “Dancing the Whole Dance: Positional Calling for Contra.” This winter, she is  starting Winchester's first-ever queer ceilidh series, WinQeilidh."""
links = ["https://contrabridge.org/events/2025-06/"]
start = "2025-06-28T19:30:00+01:00"
end = "2025-06-28T23:00:00+01:00"
country = "UK"
city = "Cambridge"
styles = ["contra"]
workshop = true
social = true
bands = ["Box of Frogs"]
callers = ["Louise Siddons"]
price = "£7-£15"
organisation = "Contrabridge"
source = "events/uk/contrabridge.yaml"

[[events]]
name = "Englefield Green contra dance"
links = ["https://www.ashfordfolkdancers.org.uk/contra_dances/"]
start = "2025-07-13T14:30:00+00:00"
end = "2025-07-13T17:30:00+00:00"
country = "UK"
city = "Egham"
styles = ["contra"]
workshop = false
social = true
bands = ["Box of Frogs"]
callers = ["Barrie Bullimore"]
organisation = "Ashford Folk Dancers"
source = "events/uk/ashford.yaml"

[[events]]
name = "Sidmouth Folk Festival"
links = ["https://sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk/"]
start_date = "2025-08-01"
end_date = "2025-08-08"
country = "UK"
city = "Sidmouth"
styles = ["e-ceilidh", "contra", "ecd", "scd", "balfolk", "scandi", "irish-set", "ceili"]
workshop = true
social = true
bands = ["Alex Cumming & Audrey Jaber", "Box of Frogs", "Confluence", "Contrasaurus", "Paul Hutchinson & Matt Norman", "Oscina", "WillPower"]
callers = ["Brian Stanton", "Carol Monaghan", "Kevin Monaghan", "Louise Siddons", "Rachel Shapiro-Wallace", "Rhodri Davies"]
price = "£320-£495"
organisation = "Sidmouth Folk Festival"
source = "events/uk/sidmouth.yaml"

[[events]]
name = "Englefield Green contra dance"
links = ["https://www.ashfordfolkdancers.org.uk/contra_dances/"]
start = "2025-09-14T14:30:00+00:00"
end = "2025-09-14T17:30:00+00:00"
country = "UK"
city = "Egham"
styles = ["contra"]
workshop = false
social = true
bands = ["Box of Frogs"]
callers = ["Geoff Cubitt"]
organisation = "Ashford Folk Dancers"
source = "events/uk/ashford.yaml"

[[events]]
name = "Autumn Contra Dance Week"
links = ["https://halswaymanor.org.uk/event/autumn-contra-dance-week-2025/"]
start = "2025-10-06T16:00:00+01:00"
end = "2025-10-10T10:00:00+01:00"
country = "UK"
city = "Halsway"
styles = ["contra"]
workshop = true
social = true
bands = ["Box of Frogs"]
callers = ["Cis Hinkle"]
price = "£255-£460"
organisation = "Halsway Manor"
source = "events/uk/halsway.yaml"

[[events]]
name = "Leeds Contra"
links = ["http://www.leedscontra.freeuk.com/specialevents.html"]
start = "2025-11-01T19:30:00+00:00"
end = "2025-11-01T23:00:00+00:00"
country = "UK"
city = "Leeds"
styles = ["contra"]
workshop = false
social = true
bands = ["Box of Frogs"]
callers = ["Louise Siddons"]
price = "£12"
organisation = "Leeds Contra"
source = "events/uk/leeds_contra.yaml"

[[events]]
name = "Alcester Contra"
links = ["https://davidfolk7.wixsite.com/alcestercontras", "https://www.facebook.com/events/972124688266966/"]
start = "2025-11-07T19:45:00+00:00"
end = "2025-11-07T22:45:00+00:00"
country = "UK"
city = "Alcester"
styles = ["contra"]
workshop = false
social = true
bands = ["Box of Frogs"]
callers = ["Geoff Cubitt"]
price = "£4-£10"
organisation = "Alcester Contra"
source = "events/uk/alcester_contra.yaml"

[[events]]
name = "Englefield Green contra dance"
links = ["https://www.ashfordfolkdancers.org.uk/contra_dances/"]
start = "2025-11-09T14:30:00+00:00"
end = "2025-11-09T17:30:00+00:00"
country = "UK"
city = "Egham"
styles = ["contra"]
workshop = false
social = true
bands = ["Box of Frogs"]
callers = ["Lynne Render"]
organisation = "Ashford Folk Dancers"
source = "events/uk/ashford.yaml"