---
events:
  - name: The Round club night
    links:
      - "https://round.soc.srcf.net/events"
      - "https://round.soc.srcf.net/diary"
    start: "2025-05-22T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-22T22:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cambridge
    styles:
      - ecd
      - contra
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £2-£4
    organisation: The Round
    source: events/uk/the_round.yaml
  - name: Cambridge Contra Dance
    links:
      - "https://www.cambridgefolk.org.uk/contra/"
      - "https://www.cambridgefolk.org.uk/contra/programme.html"
    start: "2025-05-23T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-23T22:15:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cambridge
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £2
    organisation: Cambridge Contra Dance
    source: events/uk/cambridge_contra.yaml
  - name: The Round club night
    links:
      - "https://round.soc.srcf.net/events"
      - "https://round.soc.srcf.net/diary"
    start: "2025-05-29T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-29T22:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cambridge
    styles:
      - ecd
      - contra
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £2-£4
    organisation: The Round
    source: events/uk/the_round.yaml
  - 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: The Round club night
    links:
      - "https://round.soc.srcf.net/events"
      - "https://round.soc.srcf.net/diary"
    start: "2025-06-05T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-05T22:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cambridge
    styles:
      - ecd
      - contra
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £2-£4
    organisation: The Round
    source: events/uk/the_round.yaml
  - name: Cambridge Contra Dance
    links:
      - "https://www.cambridgefolk.org.uk/contra/"
      - "https://www.cambridgefolk.org.uk/contra/programme.html"
    start: "2025-06-06T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-06T22:15:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cambridge
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £2
    organisation: Cambridge Contra Dance
    source: events/uk/cambridge_contra.yaml
  - name: The Round club night
    links:
      - "https://round.soc.srcf.net/events"
      - "https://round.soc.srcf.net/diary"
    start: "2025-06-12T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-12T22:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cambridge
    styles:
      - ecd
      - contra
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £2-£4
    organisation: The Round
    source: events/uk/the_round.yaml
  - name: The Round club night
    links:
      - "https://round.soc.srcf.net/events"
      - "https://round.soc.srcf.net/diary"
    start: "2025-06-19T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-19T22:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cambridge
    styles:
      - ecd
      - contra
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £2-£4
    organisation: The Round
    source: events/uk/the_round.yaml
  - name: Cambridge Contra Dance
    links:
      - "https://www.cambridgefolk.org.uk/contra/"
      - "https://www.cambridgefolk.org.uk/contra/programme.html"
    start: "2025-06-20T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-20T22:15:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cambridge
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £2
    organisation: Cambridge Contra Dance
    source: events/uk/cambridge_contra.yaml
  - name: The Round Playford ball
    links:
      - "https://round.soc.srcf.net/diary"
    start_date: 2025-06-21
    end_date: 2025-06-21
    country: UK
    city: Cambridge
    styles:
      - ecd
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Contrary Faeries
    organisation: The Round
    source: events/uk/the_round.yaml
  - name: Cam-French final celebration
    links:
      - "https://www.camfrench.co.uk/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/2613173408881074/"
    start: "2025-06-22T14:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-22T22:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cambridge
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Portmanteau
    price: free
    organisation: Cam-French
    source: events/uk/camfrench.yaml
  - name: The Round May Week Ceilidh
    links:
      - "https://round.soc.srcf.net/diary"
    start: "2025-06-26T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-26T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cambridge
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    organisation: The Round
    source: events/uk/the_round.yaml
  - name: Contrabridge
    details: "Join us for our contra dance with Box of Frogs with calling from Louise Siddons.\n\nTwo 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?\n\nLouise 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
  - name: Cambridge Contra Dance
    links:
      - "https://www.cambridgefolk.org.uk/contra/"
      - "https://www.cambridgefolk.org.uk/contra/programme.html"
    start: "2025-07-04T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-07-04T22:15:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cambridge
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £2
    organisation: Cambridge Contra Dance
    source: events/uk/cambridge_contra.yaml
  - name: Contrabridge
    details: "Join us for our contra dance with Bearded Dragons with calling from Sarah Trop.\n\nFrom fire and darkness rise the mighty Bearded Dragons. Blending traditional and electronic styles, they are pioneers of Techno Contra, Techno Playford, and Electro Folk in general, at the very cutting edge of folk dance music. They are fiddle playing behemoth Benjamin Rowe (also found rampaging in Contrasaurus); and bellows, keys and synths monster Vic Smith (known also in Double Dichotomy and Ceilidh Experiment). Using both traditional instruments and sounds, with live hardware synthesisers, Bearded Dragons weave a musical experience that is entirely unique.\n\nSarah Trop is a lifelong contra dancer and energetic caller based in San Francisco. She is a strong proponent of a safe and inclusive dance floor, and her steady calling will guide everyone through her varied programs with ease."
    links:
      - "https://contrabridge.org/events/2025-09/"
    start: "2025-09-27T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-09-27T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cambridge
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Bearded Dragons
    callers:
      - Sarah Trop
    price: £7-£15
    organisation: Contrabridge
    source: events/uk/contrabridge.yaml
  - name: Contrabridge
    details: "Join us for our contra dance with Definitely Contraband with calling from Jack Kanutin.\n\nStorming onto the festival scene in 2024, Definitely Contraband supply addictive dance music through the fiery fiddling force of Martin Clarke and Nicky McConkey, laced with heady beats from Ben Filmer-Sankey on guitar and banjo, and Tom Evans on bass. Their high-energy dance grooves and boundless enthusiasm make for an intoxicating evening!\n\nJack has grown up dancing at folk festivals and started calling whilst at Bristol University. With over five years of calling ceilidh and contra dances under his belt, he brings energy, clarity, and a deep love for traditional dance to every event."
    links:
      - "https://contrabridge.org/events/2025-10/"
    start: "2025-10-18T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-10-18T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cambridge
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Definitely Contraband
    callers:
      - Jack Kanutin
    price: £7-£15
    organisation: Contrabridge
    source: events/uk/contrabridge.yaml
  - name: Contrabridge
    details: "Join us for our contra dance with Trip Hazard with calling from Adam Hughes.\n\n[Trip Hazard](https://triphazardfolk.com/?utm_campaign=contrabridge23&utm_source=contrabridge-site) are Colm (misc hitty\nthings), James (misc squeezy things), Robin (misc blowy things) and Caro (misc things) — a new and exciting bunch of\nexperienced dance musicians with altogether too many instruments. They play tunes, but only the good ones.\n\nAdam Hughes has been dancing contra in the UK and US for 25 years, and calling contras across the UK for nearly that long. He calls new and traditional dances from across the world with clarity, enthusiasm and a hint of mischief."
    links:
      - "https://contrabridge.org/events/2025-11/"
    start: "2025-11-29T19:30:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-11-29T23:00:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cambridge
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Trip Hazard
    callers:
      - Adam Hughes
    price: £7-£15
    organisation: Contrabridge
    source: events/uk/contrabridge.yaml