---
events:
  - name: Ashford ceilidh
    links:
      - "http://www.contrafusion.co.uk/Saturday.html"
    start: "2025-05-17T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-17T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Ashford
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Climax Ceilidh Band
    callers:
      - John Sweeney
    price: £10-£12
    organisation: Contrafusion
    source: events/uk/contrafusion.yaml
  - name: Black Mountain Balfolk
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/groups/670540084748885/posts/994104959059061/"
    start: "2025-05-18T15:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-18T20:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Hay-on-Wye
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: £7
    organisation: Black Mountain Balfolk
    source: events/uk/hay_on_wye.yaml
  - name: Bristol French Session
    details: Balfolk Tunes and Dancing
    links:
      - "https://bathfrenchsession.wordpress.com/"
    start: "2025-05-18T18:45:00+02:00"
    end: "2025-05-18T22:00:00+02:00"
    country: UK
    city: Bristol
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: Bath & Bristol French Sessions
    source: events/uk/bristol_bath_french_session.yaml
  - name: Scandi dance workshop
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1069282178407723/"
    start: "2025-05-18T19:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-18T22:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cambridge
    styles:
      - scandi
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: £5-£10
    organisation: The Round
    source: events/uk/the_round.yaml
  - name: Chippenham Folk Festival
    links:
      - "https://www.chippfolk.co.uk/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/437908798839317/"
    start: "2025-05-23T12:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-26T23:55:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Chippenham
    styles:
      - balfolk
      - contra
      - e-ceilidh
      - ceili
      - irish-set
      - ecd
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - WillPower
      - Hoik!
      - Bruce Rosen
      - Pair of Shears
      - Double Dichotomy
      - Sawney White Bird
      - Momentum
      - Bluejay
      - Sarah Matthews & Doug Eunson
      - Crowdy-Kit
      - Definitely Contraband
      - Vic Smith & Friends
      - Audrey Jaber
      - Ali Messer
      - Portmanteau
      - Hinny & Joe Wass
    callers:
      - Sue Rosen
      - Brooke Friendly
      - Andrew Swaine
      - Charlie Turner
      - Bob Morgan
      - Mark Elvins
      - Emily Bidgood
      - Bernie Culkin
      - Rhi Davies
      - Frances Oates
      - Carol Monaghan
      - Kevin Monaghan
      - Geoff Cubitt
      - John Stewart
      - Susannah Diamond
    organisation: Chippenham Folk Festival
    source: events/uk/chippenham.yaml
  - name: Bal Étoile at the Gipsy Queen
    links:
      - "https://londonbalfolk.org.uk/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/606342125739812/"
    start: "2025-05-28T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-28T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: London Balfolk
    source: events/uk/london_balfolk.yaml
  - name: Halsway Playford Assembly
    links:
      - "https://halswaymanor.org.uk/event/halsway-playford-assembly-2025/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1623540088260088/"
    start: "2025-05-30T16:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-01T16:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Halsway
    styles:
      - ecd
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - "Purcell's Polyphonic Party"
    callers:
      - Andrew Swaine
    price: £200-£330
    organisation: Halsway Manor
    source: events/uk/halsway.yaml
  - name: Hebden Bridge Panards
    links:
      - "https://hebdenbridgepanards.uk/"
    start: "2025-05-31T13:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-31T17:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Hebden Bridge
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: false
    price: £3-£7
    organisation: Hebden Bridge Panards
    source: events/uk/french_dance_leeds.yaml
  - name: Balfolk Stroud
    links:
      - "https://balfolkstroud.uk/cps/gigs/daveshepherdannapack-0c1219.php"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1129412272136772/"
    start: "2025-05-31T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-31T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Stroud
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Dave Shepherd & Anna Pack
    price: £15
    organisation: Balfolk dans les Cinq Vallées - Stroud
    source: events/uk/balfolk_stroud.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: Dansez Français
    links:
      - "http://www.dansezfrancais.org.uk/"
    start: "2025-05-31T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-31T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Brighton
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Pirlouette
    price: £10
    organisation: Dansez Français
    source: events/uk/dansez_francais.yaml
  - name: Sunday Afternoon Masterclass
    links:
      - "http://www.contrafusion.co.uk/Saturday.html#P"
    start: "2025-06-01T14:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-01T16:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Maidstone
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: true
    social: false
    callers:
      - John Sweeney
    price: £7
    organisation: Contrafusion
    source: events/uk/contrafusion.yaml
  - name: Bal
    links:
      - "https://www.tickettailor.com/events/oxfolkceilidhs/1404289?"
    start: "2025-06-05T19:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-05T21:45:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Oxford
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Topette
    price: £9-£20
    organisation: Oxfolk
    source: events/uk/oxfolk.yaml
  - name: Bal-Curious
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1124753052647663/"
    start: "2025-06-06T18:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-08T18:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Burneside
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    organisation: Bal-Curious Folk
    source: events/uk/burneside.yaml
  - name: Wimborne Folk Festival
    details: "Part of the all-weekend Wimborne Folk Festival. Ceilidh on Saturday evening at the Allendale and balfolk on Sunday afternoon at the Methodist Church on King Street. Entry by donation - workshop with Steve Earwicker, and a bal."
    links:
      - "https://www.wmff.co.uk/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1268025964512356/"
    start: "2025-06-07T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-08T16:45:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Wimborne Minster
    styles:
      - balfolk
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Confluence
      - Jigfoot
    callers:
      - Tom Gregory
    organisation: Wimborne Minster Folk Festival
    source: events/uk/wimborne.yaml
  - name: DanseHerts
    links:
      - "http://www.danseherts.co.uk/Events.html"
      - "http://www.danseherts.co.uk/DH_A4_Poster_JAN25-DEC25.pdf"
    start: "2025-06-08T12:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-08T17:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Ickleford
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: £8
    organisation: DanseHerts
    source: events/uk/danseherts.yaml
  - name: Black Mountain Balfolk
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/groups/670540084748885/posts/994104959059061/"
    start: "2025-06-08T15:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-08T20:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Hay-on-Wye
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: £7
    organisation: Black Mountain Balfolk
    source: events/uk/hay_on_wye.yaml
  - name: Bal Crewkerne
    details: French + Breton dance and live music
    links:
      - "https://balcrew.wixsite.com/balcrewkerne"
    start: "2025-06-08T18:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-08T22:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Crewkerne
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: £4
    organisation: Bal Crewkerne
    source: events/uk/crewkerne.yaml
  - name: Bal Étoile at Jamboree
    links:
      - "https://londonbalfolk.org.uk/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1368001551290910/"
    start: "2025-06-11T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-11T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: London Balfolk
    source: events/uk/london_balfolk.yaml
  - name: Bay Balfolk
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/610528041964304"
    start: "2025-06-15T13:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-15T18:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Lancaster
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Helianthus
    price: £5-£7
    organisation: Lancaster Eurodance
    source: events/uk/lancaster_eurodance.yaml
  - name: New Forest Eurobal
    details: A Eurobal Wessex event - bal with Confluence Duo
    links:
      - "https://buytickets.at/eurobalwessex/1658033"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1680524709231876/"
    start: "2025-06-15T14:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-15T17:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Ringwood
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Confluence
    price: £8-£12
    organisation: EuroBal Wessex
    source: events/uk/eurobal_wessex.yaml
  - name: Lichfield Folk Festival
    links:
      - "https://www.lichfieldfolkfestival.co.uk/"
    start: "2025-06-20T19:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-22T17:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Lichfield
    styles:
      - contra
      - ecd
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - 3D
      - Jovial Crew
      - Larry Unger & Elke Baker
      - Warleggan Village Band
      - WillPower
    callers:
      - Amy Burton
      - Gene Murrow
      - Geoff Cubitt
      - Georgia Delve
      - Hilary Herbert
      - Lynne Render
      - Mark Burton
      - Maureen Knight
    price: £100
    organisation: Lichfield Folk Festival
    source: events/uk/lichfield.yaml
  - name: Bristol Contra Dance
    details: "Bristol Contra Dance is a communal-style folk dance very similar to a Ceilidh. No partner or experience is necessary. A caller leads the dancers through a series of moves. All calling is gender free.\n\nLouise Siddons will be calling with music from Fiddlechicks.\n\nWe are in the Faith Space Chapel. It's nice and close to Temple Meads and comes with free parking. Check the new Bristol Clean Air Zone information carefully, as this may effect you.\n\nWe have cheese in the break, along with tea, coffee and cordial. You are welcome to bring your own things. Please don't bring alcohol, as this is the venue rule.\n\nBristol Contra is committed to not having the cost of a dance be a hindrance to anyone attending, and have a sliding pay scale.\n\nSuggested prices available on the door:\nUnwaged £6\nWaged £10\nSupporters Ticket £15.\nThe new supporters ticket is a fair representation of what the event costs to run, and supports fair fees for the Band and Caller. It is entirely voluntary.\n\nSo bring your smiles and your joy and come join us for amazing social dancing. Absolutely all welcome of any level of experience for great dancing to some amazing gender-free calling and brilliant music!"
    links:
      - "https://bristolcontra.wordpress.com/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/865675028962690/"
    start: "2025-06-20T19:45:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-20T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Bristol
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Fiddlechicks
    callers:
      - Louise Siddons
    price: £6-£15
    organisation: Bristol Contra
    source: events/uk/bristol_contra.yaml
  - name: Black Mountain Balfolk
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/groups/670540084748885/posts/994104959059061/"
    start: "2025-06-22T15:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-22T20:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Hay-on-Wye
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: £7
    organisation: Black Mountain Balfolk
    source: events/uk/hay_on_wye.yaml
  - name: Bal Étoile at the Gipsy Queen
    links:
      - "https://londonbalfolk.org.uk/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1093877625834952/"
    start: "2025-06-25T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-25T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: London Balfolk
    source: events/uk/london_balfolk.yaml
  - name: Hebden Bridge Panards
    links:
      - "https://hebdenbridgepanards.uk/"
    start: "2025-06-28T13:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-28T17:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Hebden Bridge
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: false
    price: £3-£7
    organisation: Hebden Bridge Panards
    source: events/uk/french_dance_leeds.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: Sunday Afternoon Masterclass
    links:
      - "http://www.contrafusion.co.uk/Saturday.html#P"
    start: "2025-06-29T14:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-29T16:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Maidstone
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: true
    social: false
    callers:
      - John Sweeney
    price: £7
    organisation: Contrafusion
    source: events/uk/contrafusion.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: Social Country Dance Week
    links:
      - "https://halswaymanor.org.uk/event/social-country-dancing/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/619816870700560/"
    start: "2025-07-07T16:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-07-11T10:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Halsway
    styles:
      - contra
      - ecd
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - "Ali, Jane & Meg"
    callers:
      - Mark Elvins
    price: £255-£460
    organisation: Halsway Manor
    source: events/uk/halsway.yaml
  - name: Bal Étoile at Jamboree
    links:
      - "https://londonbalfolk.org.uk/"
    start: "2025-07-09T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-07-09T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: London Balfolk
    source: events/uk/london_balfolk.yaml
  - name: DanseHerts
    links:
      - "http://www.danseherts.co.uk/Events.html"
      - "http://www.danseherts.co.uk/DH_A4_Poster_JAN25-DEC25.pdf"
    start: "2025-07-13T12:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-07-13T17:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Ickleford
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: £8
    organisation: DanseHerts
    source: events/uk/danseherts.yaml
  - name: Bal Miniscule
    links:
      - "https://balfolkoxford.mmm.page/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1718619838973025/"
    start: "2025-07-13T14:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-07-13T19:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Oxford
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: Balfolk Oxford
    source: events/uk/oxford.yaml
  - name: Hebden Bridge Panards
    links:
      - "https://hebdenbridgepanards.uk/"
    start: "2025-07-26T13:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-07-26T17:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Hebden Bridge
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: false
    price: £3-£7
    organisation: Hebden Bridge Panards
    source: events/uk/french_dance_leeds.yaml
  - name: Bal Étoile at the Gipsy Queen
    links:
      - "https://londonbalfolk.org.uk/"
    start: "2025-07-30T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-07-30T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: London Balfolk
    source: events/uk/london_balfolk.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: Broadstairs Folk Week
    links:
      - "https://broadstairsfolkweek.org.uk/"
    start_date: 2025-08-08
    end_date: 2025-08-15
    country: UK
    city: Broadstairs
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: £176-£357
    organisation: Broadstairs Folk Week
    source: events/uk/broadstairs.yaml
  - name: Day of Dance
    details: "Callers: Liam Binley & Bernie Culkin.\r\nMusicians: Audrey Jaber & Alex Cumming"
    links:
      - "https://friendsofenglishdance.org.uk/events/fed-day-of-dance/"
    start: "2025-08-10T10:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-08-10T17:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Oakham
    styles:
      - ecd
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Alex Cumming & Audrey Jaber
    callers:
      - Liam Binley
      - Bernie Culkin
    organisation: Friends of English dance
    source: events/uk/oakham.yaml
  - name: Bal Étoile at Jamboree
    links:
      - "https://londonbalfolk.org.uk/"
    start: "2025-08-13T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-08-13T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: London Balfolk
    source: events/uk/london_balfolk.yaml
  - name: Whitby Folk Week
    links:
      - "https://www.whitbyfolk.co.uk/"
    start: "2025-08-16T15:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-08-22T23:59:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Whitby
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
      - contra
      - ecd
      - irish-set
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: £280-£360
    organisation: Whitby Folk Week
    source: events/uk/whitby.yaml
  - name: Bal Crewkerne
    details: French + Breton dance and live music
    links:
      - "https://balcrew.wixsite.com/balcrewkerne"
    start: "2025-08-17T18:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-08-17T21:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Crewkerne
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: £4
    organisation: Bal Crewkerne
    source: events/uk/crewkerne.yaml
  - name: Halsway Folk Dance Holiday
    links:
      - "https://halswaymanor.org.uk/event/halsway-folk-dance-holiday-2025/"
    start: "2025-08-18T16:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-08-25T10:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Halsway
    styles:
      - ecd
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Richard Jones & Chris Jewell
    callers:
      - Ivan Aitken
    price: £400-£640
    organisation: Halsway Manor
    source: events/uk/halsway.yaml
  - name: Shrewsbury Folk Festival
    links:
      - "https://shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk/line-up/dance/"
    start: "2025-08-22T14:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-08-25T18:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Shrewsbury
    styles:
      - balfolk
      - contra
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Demon Barbers
      - Emily & The Simons
      - Frog on a Bike
      - GloryStrokes
      - Hoik
      - Lasair
      - Naragonia Quartet
      - National Youth Folk Ensemble
      - Oysterband
      - PolkaWorks
      - Queer Folk
      - Ross Grant & Hartwin Dhoore
    price: £199.24-£246.85
    organisation: Shrewsbury Folk Festival
    source: events/uk/shrewsbury.yaml
  - name: Found Festival
    links:
      - "https://www.foundfestival.uk/line-up/dance"
    start: "2025-08-22T18:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-08-24T22:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Middle Claydon
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Out of Hand
      - Tautas Roks
      - Banter
      - Kettlehawk
    price: £195-£215
    organisation: Towersey Festival
    source: events/uk/towersey.yaml
  - name: Hebden Bridge Panards
    links:
      - "https://hebdenbridgepanards.uk/"
    start: "2025-08-23T13:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-08-23T17:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Hebden Bridge
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: false
    price: £3-£7
    organisation: Hebden Bridge Panards
    source: events/uk/french_dance_leeds.yaml
  - name: Bal Étoile at the Gipsy Queen
    links:
      - "https://londonbalfolk.org.uk/"
    start: "2025-08-27T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-08-27T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: London Balfolk
    source: events/uk/london_balfolk.yaml
  - name: Halsway Regency Assembley
    links:
      - "https://halswaymanor.org.uk/event/the-halsway-regency-assembly-2025/"
    start: "2025-08-29T16:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-08-31T16:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Halsway
    styles:
      - ecd
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Warleggan Village Band
    callers:
      - Georgia Delve
    price: £200-£330
    organisation: Halsway Manor
    source: events/uk/halsway.yaml
  - name: Bal Étoile at Jamboree
    links:
      - "https://londonbalfolk.org.uk/"
    start: "2025-09-10T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-09-10T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: London Balfolk
    source: events/uk/london_balfolk.yaml
  - name: DanseHerts
    links:
      - "http://www.danseherts.co.uk/Events.html"
      - "http://www.danseherts.co.uk/DH_A4_Poster_JAN25-DEC25.pdf"
    start: "2025-09-14T12:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-09-14T17:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Ickleford
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: £8
    organisation: DanseHerts
    source: events/uk/danseherts.yaml
  - name: Bal Miniscule
    links:
      - "https://balfolkoxford.mmm.page/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/955050696437091/"
    start: "2025-09-14T14:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-09-14T19:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Oxford
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: Balfolk Oxford
    source: events/uk/oxford.yaml
  - name: Bal Étoile at the Gipsy Queen
    links:
      - "https://londonbalfolk.org.uk/"
    start: "2025-09-24T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-09-24T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: London Balfolk
    source: events/uk/london_balfolk.yaml
  - name: Bristol Contra Dance
    links:
      - "https://bristolcontra.wordpress.com/"
    start_date: 2025-09-26
    end_date: 2025-09-26
    country: UK
    city: Bristol
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    organisation: Bristol Contra
    source: events/uk/bristol_contra.yaml
  - name: Halsway Harvest Weekend
    links:
      - "https://halswaymanor.org.uk/event/halsway-harvest-weekend-2/"
    start: "2025-09-26T16:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-09-28T16:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Halsway
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
      - ecd
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - "Dampier's Round"
    callers:
      - Frances Oates
      - Barrie Bullimore
      - Laura Hodges
    organisation: Halsway Harvest
    source: events/uk/halsway.yaml
  - name: Hebden Bridge Panards
    links:
      - "https://hebdenbridgepanards.uk/"
    start: "2025-09-27T13:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-09-27T17:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Hebden Bridge
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: false
    price: £3-£7
    organisation: Hebden Bridge Panards
    source: events/uk/french_dance_leeds.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: Dansez Français
    links:
      - "http://www.dansezfrancais.org.uk/"
    start: "2025-09-27T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-09-27T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Brighton
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Sunset in Provence
    price: £10
    organisation: Dansez Français
    source: events/uk/dansez_francais.yaml
  - name: Festival des Panards
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1737620977135950/"
      - "https://frenchdanceleeds.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/25th-festival-des-panards/"
    start: "2025-10-03T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-10-05T16:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Todmorden
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - War-sav
      - Trio Roblin-Evain-Badeau
      - Naragonia
      - Oscina
    price: £35-£69
    organisation: Les Panards Dansants
    source: events/uk/french_dance_leeds.yaml
  - 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
  - name: Weedon Balfolk
    links:
      - "https://www.weedonbalfolk.co.uk/"
    start_date: 2025-10-12
    end_date: 2025-10-12
    country: UK
    city: Weedon Bec
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: £5
    organisation: Weedon Balfolk
    source: events/uk/badby_bals.yaml
  - name: DanseHerts
    links:
      - "http://www.danseherts.co.uk/Events.html"
      - "http://www.danseherts.co.uk/DH_A4_Poster_JAN25-DEC25.pdf"
    start: "2025-10-12T12:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-10-12T17:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Ickleford
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: £8
    organisation: DanseHerts
    source: events/uk/danseherts.yaml
  - name: Bristol Contra Dance
    links:
      - "https://bristolcontra.wordpress.com/"
    start_date: 2025-10-17
    end_date: 2025-10-17
    country: UK
    city: Bristol
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    organisation: Bristol Contra
    source: events/uk/bristol_contra.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: Bal Crewkerne
    details: French + Breton dance and live music
    links:
      - "https://balcrew.wixsite.com/balcrewkerne"
    start: "2025-10-19T18:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-10-19T21:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Crewkerne
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: £4
    organisation: Bal Crewkerne
    source: events/uk/crewkerne.yaml
  - name: Hebden Bridge Panards
    links:
      - "https://hebdenbridgepanards.uk/"
    start: "2025-10-25T13:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-10-25T17:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Hebden Bridge
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: false
    price: £3-£7
    organisation: Hebden Bridge Panards
    source: events/uk/french_dance_leeds.yaml
  - name: Dansez Français
    links:
      - "http://www.dansezfrancais.org.uk/"
    start: "2025-10-25T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-10-25T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Brighton
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - "Peut Qu'Manquer"
    price: £10
    organisation: Dansez Français
    source: events/uk/dansez_francais.yaml
  - name: Skint
    links:
      - "https://www.skintdance.org.uk/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1119730636555625/"
    start: "2025-11-07T17:00:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-11-09T17:00:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Ashover
    styles:
      - balfolk
      - scandi
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: £23-£53
    organisation: Skint
    source: events/uk/skint.yaml
  - name: DanseHerts
    links:
      - "http://www.danseherts.co.uk/Events.html"
      - "http://www.danseherts.co.uk/DH_A4_Poster_JAN25-DEC25.pdf"
    start: "2025-11-09T12:00:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-11-09T17:00:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Ickleford
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: £8
    organisation: DanseHerts
    source: events/uk/danseherts.yaml
  - name: Bal Miniscule
    links:
      - "https://balfolkoxford.mmm.page/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/2794042134106337/"
    start: "2025-11-09T14:00:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-11-09T19:00:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Oxford
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: Balfolk Oxford
    source: events/uk/oxford.yaml
  - name: Zesty Contra Weekend
    links:
      - "https://halswaymanor.org.uk/event/zesty-contra-weekend-2025/"
    start: "2025-11-21T16:00:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-11-23T16:00:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Halsway
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Ali & Mollie
    callers:
      - Rhodri Davies
      - Mark Elvins
    price: £200-£330
    organisation: Halsway Manor
    source: events/uk/halsway.yaml
  - name: Bristol Contra Dance
    links:
      - "https://bristolcontra.wordpress.com/"
    start_date: 2025-11-28
    end_date: 2025-11-28
    country: UK
    city: Bristol
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    organisation: Bristol Contra
    source: events/uk/bristol_contra.yaml
  - name: Hebden Bridge Panards
    links:
      - "https://hebdenbridgepanards.uk/"
    start: "2025-11-29T13:30:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-11-29T17:30:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Hebden Bridge
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: false
    price: £3-£7
    organisation: Hebden Bridge Panards
    source: events/uk/french_dance_leeds.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
  - name: Dansez Français
    links:
      - "http://www.dansezfrancais.org.uk/"
    start: "2025-11-29T20:00:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-11-29T22:30:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Brighton
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Ça Ribote
    price: £10
    organisation: Dansez Français
    source: events/uk/dansez_francais.yaml
  - name: Weedon Balfolk
    links:
      - "https://www.weedonbalfolk.co.uk/"
    start_date: 2025-11-30
    end_date: 2025-11-30
    country: UK
    city: Weedon Bec
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: £5
    organisation: Weedon Balfolk
    source: events/uk/badby_bals.yaml
  - name: DanseHerts
    links:
      - "http://www.danseherts.co.uk/Events.html"
      - "http://www.danseherts.co.uk/DH_A4_Poster_JAN25-DEC25.pdf"
    start: "2025-12-14T12:00:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-12-14T17:00:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Ickleford
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: £8
    organisation: DanseHerts
    source: events/uk/danseherts.yaml
  - name: Bal Crewkerne
    details: French + Breton dance and live music
    links:
      - "https://balcrew.wixsite.com/balcrewkerne"
    start: "2025-12-14T18:00:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-12-14T21:30:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Crewkerne
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: £4
    organisation: Bal Crewkerne
    source: events/uk/crewkerne.yaml
  - name: Hebden Bridge Panards
    links:
      - "https://hebdenbridgepanards.uk/"
    start: "2025-12-20T13:30:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-12-20T17:30:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Hebden Bridge
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: false
    price: £3-£7
    organisation: Hebden Bridge Panards
    source: events/uk/french_dance_leeds.yaml
  - name: Christmas House Party
    links:
      - "https://halswaymanor.org.uk/event/christmas-house-party-4/"
    start: "2025-12-23T16:00:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-12-27T10:00:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Halsway
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Will Pound & Linda Game
    callers:
      - Geoff Cubitt
    price: £420-£645
    organisation: Halsway Manor
    source: events/uk/halsway.yaml
  - name: Winter Warmer
    links:
      - "https://halswaymanor.org.uk/event/winter-warmer-2026/"
    start: "2026-01-19T16:00:00+00:00"
    end: "2026-01-23T10:00:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Halsway
    styles:
      - ecd
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - "Dampier's Round"
    callers:
      - Madeleine Smith
      - Jane Hunter
      - Mark Hunter
    price: £240-£460
    organisation: Halsway Manor
    source: events/uk/halsway.yaml
  - name: Bristol Contra Dance
    links:
      - "https://bristolcontra.wordpress.com/"
    start_date: 2026-01-23
    end_date: 2026-01-23
    country: UK
    city: Bristol
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    organisation: Bristol Contra
    source: events/uk/bristol_contra.yaml
  - name: Bristol Contra Dance
    links:
      - "https://bristolcontra.wordpress.com/"
    start_date: 2026-02-20
    end_date: 2026-02-20
    country: UK
    city: Bristol
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    organisation: Bristol Contra
    source: events/uk/bristol_contra.yaml
  - name: Bristol Contra Dance
    links:
      - "https://bristolcontra.wordpress.com/"
    start_date: 2026-03-20
    end_date: 2026-03-20
    country: UK
    city: Bristol
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    organisation: Bristol Contra
    source: events/uk/bristol_contra.yaml
  - name: Bristol Contra Dance
    links:
      - "https://bristolcontra.wordpress.com/"
    start_date: 2026-04-24
    end_date: 2026-04-24
    country: UK
    city: Bristol
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    organisation: Bristol Contra
    source: events/uk/bristol_contra.yaml
  - name: Bristol Contra Dance
    links:
      - "https://bristolcontra.wordpress.com/"
    start_date: 2026-05-15
    end_date: 2026-05-15
    country: UK
    city: Bristol
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    organisation: Bristol Contra
    source: events/uk/bristol_contra.yaml
  - name: Lichfield Folk Festival
    links:
      - "https://www.lichfieldfolkfestival.co.uk/"
    start: "2026-06-19T19:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2026-06-21T17:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Lichfield
    styles:
      - contra
      - ecd
    workshop: true
    social: true
    organisation: Lichfield Folk Festival
    source: events/uk/lichfield.yaml
  - name: Bristol Contra Dance
    links:
      - "https://bristolcontra.wordpress.com/"
    start_date: 2026-06-26
    end_date: 2026-06-26
    country: UK
    city: Bristol
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    organisation: Bristol Contra
    source: events/uk/bristol_contra.yaml