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events:
  - name: Contrabridge
    details: "Join us for our contra dance with Contrasaurus with calling from Rob Humphrey.\n\nContrasaurus (Benjamin Rowe — fiddle, Alan Brunier — accordion, Adam Rich-Griffin — guitar, David Ledsam — double bass) play an exciting range of energetic and dino-soaring tunes for American contra dancing. They enjoy playing fresh and exciting tunes for contra dances, workshops, folk clubs and festivals throughout England. Not technically dinosaurs.\n\nRob Humphrey has been attending folk dance events his whole life, but only discovered Contra dances in 2015 when one happened to follow a handstand class he was attending.  He was hooked pretty much immediately, and started calling shortly afterwards.  Based in Cambridge, Rob enjoys contra dances with pleasing patterns and unusual geometry that flow and provide opportunities for embellishments."
    links:
      - "https://contrabridge.org/events/2025-05/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/973681191602556/"
    start: "2025-05-31T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-31T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cambridge
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Contrasaurus
    callers:
      - Rob Humphrey
    price: £7-£15
    organisation: Contrabridge
    source: events/uk/contrabridge.yaml
  - name: Stegastomp
    links:
      - "https://www.stegastomp.co.uk/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1697234160875967/"
    start: "2025-07-04T18:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-07-06T16:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Harbury
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Contrasaurus
    callers:
      - Charlotte Rich-Griffin
      - Louise Siddons
    price: £50-£65
    organisation: Contrasaurus
    source: events/uk/harbury.yaml
  - 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
  - name: London Barndance
    links:
      - "https://www.barndance.org/programme.html"
    start: "2025-12-13T20:00:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-12-13T23:00:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Contrasaurus
    callers:
      - Nicola Scott
    price: £5-£15
    organisation: London Barndance Company
    source: events/uk/london_barndance.yaml