Preparing for the Dover Spring Assembly?

'Barbarini's Tambourine' danced by Gainesville English country dancers on December 2nd, 2013. Called by Randy Thorp with live music by Hoggetowne Fancy.

Presented by Germantown Country Dancers in preparation for the Predominantly Playford Ball in December 2015

ANIMATION format. Published in Playford's Dancing Master of 1728. It is a proper duple minor longways dance. It was adapted by Douglas and Helen Kennedy in 1929.

Dance starts at :40. 

ANIMATION format. Devised by Pat Shaw and published in 1974. It is an improper duple minor dance.

Bingo! is an English Country Dance by Jenny Beer. In this video Jenny calls it for enthusiastic dancers at the Saturday morning Nifty New English session at the New England Folk Festival 2016.

Calling by James Hutson; Music by Wayne Hankin and Ryan Sandburg

Bonny Cuckoo by Gail Ticknor being danced at the Fairfield , Iowa Annual Bare Necessities Weekend 2011.Teaching and prompting is by Joanna Reiner. The music is by members of Bare Necessities - Peter Barnes(winds), Earl Gaddis(violin), and Jacqueline Schwab(piano).

Charles Bolton reconstructed Braes of Dornoch (Johnson, 1757) as a 3-couple dance, publishing it in 1989 in Retreads 4, part of a series of reconstructions of 17th and 18th century dances. 

'Dancing Across The Atlantic' danced by Gainesville, Florida, English country dancers. Called by Randy Thorp with live music by Hoggetowne Fancy on July 21st 2014.

'Draper's Garden' danced by Gainesville, Florida, English country dancers. Called by Randy Thorp with live music by Hoggetowne Fancy on June 30th 2014.

Old Dominion Dancers

Performed by the Old Dominion Dance Performers

English Country Dancing workshop session in Durham, North Carolina, at Sun Assembly's 2007 Spring DanceFest led by Bruce Hamilton. 

Danced at NYC George Washington Hotel February 21, 2010

Everett Lunsford & 'Round Robbin - 

Robbin Marcus (piano), Dave Marcus Robbin Marcus (piano), Dave Marcus (concertina) and Meredith Doster (flute).

 Winter Dance Week, Brasstown, NC 2011. Joanna Reiner caller

Playford Country Dance Book (1651)

Named, in all likelihood, after a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published in 1799, Pat Shaw’s Heidenröslein" ("Rose on the Heath") is a 4-couple square mixer in waltz time. The dance appears in Book 2 of The Pat Shaw Collection, along with the tune he chose for it. 

Attendees at a weekly meeting of the Williamsburg Heritage Dancers practice "The Highlander's Humour" (1718) on December 8, 2015, in Willliamsburg, Virginia.  The music here is a recording from the cd "Farnicle Huggy" (Berger/King/Oakden); the caller was Jenna Simpson.

Performed at the IFDO Christmas Party 2010

Danced by Gainesville English Country Dancers on November 25th, 2013. Called by Randy Thorp with live music by Hoggetowne Fancy. Dance by Gary Roodman, tune by Jonathan Jensen

Dominion English Country Dancers

Danced by Gainesville, Florida, English country dancers. Called by Al Rogers to music performed by Hoggetowne Fancy. Tune ca. 1777 Pierre Trappeniers , dance reconstruction Phillippe Callens, 1999.

Devised by Fiona Turnbull, danced by members of the Richmond (North Yorkshire) branch of the RSCDS.

Written in 1989 by Fried Herman for Leah Barkan, beloved pianist for Country Dancers of Westchester for many years. Leah's waltz is one of the all-time favorites of ECD set dances--simple, satisfying, and set to two gorgeous tunes : Amelia by Bob McQuillen and Ashokan Farewell by Jay Ungar.  Video from  CDW's 40th anniv party November 2, 2014 at St Thomas Episcopal Church in Mamaroneck, NY. 

By Scott higgs being danced at Set fro Spring 2012 in Austin, Texas. The dance was taught and prompted by Scott Higgs to music by Foxfire - Daron Douglas on fiddle, Karen Axelrod on keyboard.

Presented by the Germantown Country dancers in preparation for the Predominantly Playford Ball in December 2015

Carl Friedmand calling with  Gued Band of Baltimore July 2016 English Country Dance

Old Dominion Dance Performers