---
events:
  - name: Balfolk Stroud
    links:
      - "https://balfolkstroud.uk/cps/gigs/emilyandsimons-50a642.php"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/569503989137121/"
    start: "2025-04-19T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-04-19T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Stroud
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Emily & Simon
    price: £15
    organisation: Balfolk dans les Cinq Vallées - Stroud
    source: events/uk/balfolk_stroud.yaml
  - name: Ceilidh Club
    links:
      - "https://ceilidhclub.com/event/london-ceilidh-club-19-4-25-cecil-sharp-house/"
    start: "2025-04-19T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-04-19T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - s-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £19-£25
    organisation: London Ceilidh Club
    source: events/uk/ceilidh_club.yaml
  - name: Les Batons
    links:
      - "https://www.lesbatons.org/#dates"
    start: "2025-04-20T13:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-04-20T17:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Hollingbourne
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Les Marginaux
    price: £7
    organisation: Les Batons
    source: events/uk/les_batons.yaml
  - name: Bristol French Session
    details: Balfolk Tunes and Dancing
    links:
      - "https://bathfrenchsession.wordpress.com/"
    start: "2025-04-20T18:45:00+02:00"
    end: "2025-04-20T22:00:00+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: Easter House Party
    links:
      - "https://halswaymanor.org.uk/event/easter-house-party-2025/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1331724651604453/"
    start: "2025-04-21T16:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-04-25T10:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Halsway
    styles:
      - contra
      - ecd
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Gareth Kiddier & Linda Game
    price: £255-£460
    organisation: Halsway Manor
    source: events/uk/halsway.yaml
  - name: Le Bal-en-Rouge
    links:
      - "http://www.frenchdance.co.uk/dates.htm"
    start: "2025-04-23T19:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-04-23T22:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Ockbrook
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: Ockbrook French Music and Dancing
    source: events/uk/ockbrook.yaml
  - name: Bal Étoile at the Gipsy Queen
    links:
      - "https://londonbalfolk.org.uk/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/612987827736277/"
    start: "2025-04-23T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-04-23T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: London Balfolk
    source: events/uk/london_balfolk.yaml
  - name: Hadleigh French Weekend
    links:
      - "https://hadleighfrenchweekend.co.uk/"
    start_date: 2025-04-25
    end_date: 2025-04-27
    country: UK
    city: Hadleigh
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Bargainatt
      - Tonik
      - BOF!
      - Tom & Emma Hardy
    price: £70
    organisation: Hadleigh Folk
    source: events/uk/hadleigh.yaml
  - name: Falconers Dance Club
    links:
      - "https://halswaymanor.org.uk/event/falconers-dance-club-2025/"
    start: "2025-04-25T16:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-04-27T16:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Halsway
    styles:
      - ecd
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - The Falconers
    organisation: Falconers Folk Dance Club
    source: events/uk/halsway.yaml
  - name: Waterloo Ceilidh
    links:
      - "https://folkandroots.co.uk/waterloo-ceilidhs-featuring-hekety/"
    start: "2025-04-25T19:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-04-25T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Hekety
    callers:
      - Sheena Masson
    price: £15-£25
    organisation: Folkandroots
    source: events/uk/london.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\nLisa Heywood will be calling with music from Dodging Pheasants.\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/1304064087665929/"
    start: "2025-04-25T19:45:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-04-25T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Bristol
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Dodging Pheasants
    callers:
      - Lisa Heywood
    price: £6-£15
    organisation: Bristol Contra
    source: events/uk/bristol_contra.yaml
  - name: Ceilidh Club
    links:
      - "https://ceilidhclub.com/event/london-ceilidh-club-25-4-25-cecil-sharp-house/"
    start: "2025-04-25T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-04-25T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - s-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £19-£25
    organisation: London Ceilidh Club
    source: events/uk/ceilidh_club.yaml
  - name: Hebden Bridge Panards
    links:
      - "https://hebdenbridgepanards.uk/"
    start: "2025-04-26T13:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-04-26T17:30:00+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: 81st Dance Party
    links:
      - "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/81st-dance-party-with-bearded-dragons-3sticks-confluence-tickets-1026087012877"
    start: "2025-04-26T14:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-04-26T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Ascott-under-Wychwood
    styles:
      - balfolk
      - contra
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - 3Sticks
      - Confluence
      - Bearded Dragons
    callers:
      - Bob Morgan
      - Charlie Turner
    price: £17
    organisation: "Nellie: ceilidhs for everyone"
    source: events/uk/witney.yaml
  - name: Leeds Contra
    links:
      - "http://www.leedscontra.freeuk.com/specialevents.html"
    start: "2025-04-26T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-04-26T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Leeds
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Ali & Mollie
    callers:
      - Lynne Render
    price: £12
    organisation: Leeds Contra
    source: events/uk/leeds_contra.yaml
  - name: Contrabridge
    details: "Join us for our contra dance with WillPower with calling from Sally Vernon.\n\nThe combined power of Wills Allen and Chamberlain (both of Club Débris & Brown Boots Boogie Band) WillPower’s fiddle and piano duo will delight your ears and ignite your feet.\n\nSally Vernon has been calling for a wide variety of folk styles since her time as a student at Cambridge (longer ago than she likes to admit!) She aims to bring her favourite parts of contra to the evening - the fun of connecting with many people on the dance floor, the joy of moving in time to music, and the surprise of discovering deep patterns from simple moves. Keen to share her love of contra with as many people as possible, she strives to make a welcoming friendly environment that is comfortable for new people - while also enjoying finding things that are new to challenge comfortable people!"
    links:
      - "https://contrabridge.org/events/2025-04/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/2406115699753958/"
    start: "2025-04-26T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-04-26T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cambridge
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - WillPower
    callers:
      - Sally Vernon
    price: £7-£15
    organisation: Contrabridge
    source: events/uk/contrabridge.yaml
  - name: Friday Folk Saturday Special
    links:
      - "https://fridayfolk.org.uk/"
    start: "2025-04-26T19:30:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-04-26T22:30:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: St Albans
    styles:
      - ecd
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £12
    organisation: Friday Folk
    source: events/uk/st_albans_friday_folk.yaml
  - name: Exeter Ceilidh
    links:
      - "https://exeterceilidhs.net/"
    start: "2025-04-26T20:00:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-04-26T23:00:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Exeter
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Flash Company
    price: £4-£15
    organisation: Exeter Ceilidhs
    source: events/uk/exeter_ceilidhs.yaml
  - name: Sunday Afternoon Masterclass
    links:
      - "http://www.contrafusion.co.uk/Saturday.html#P"
    start: "2025-04-27T14:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-04-27T16:30:00+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 Étoile at the Gipsy Queen
    links:
      - "https://londonbalfolk.org.uk/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/612987827736277/"
    start: "2025-04-30T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-04-30T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: London Balfolk
    cancelled: true
    source: events/uk/london_balfolk.yaml
  - name: May Morning Balfolk
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1186029240192002/"
    start: "2025-05-01T07:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-01T12:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Oxford
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    organisation: Balfolk Oxford
    source: events/uk/oxford.yaml
  - name: Scandi Dance London
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/992247535707224/"
    start: "2025-05-01T19:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-01T22:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - scandi
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: £8-£10
    organisation: East Midlands Scandinavian Dance
    source: events/uk/ketton.yaml
  - name: The Big Dorset May Day Ceilidh
    details: "Join us for a lively ceilidh with Tatterdemalion, the folk band of the New Hardy Players, bringing to life traditional Dorset tunes enjoyed for over 200 years. With expert caller Angela Laycock to guide every move, it’s fun for all ages and no experience or partner is needed!\r\n\r\nFamily-friendly fun starts early with a special session perfect for younger dancers of all ages and must be accompanied by a grown-up before the main ceilidh kicks off.\r\n\r\nThe bar will be open, so come for the dancing, stay for this joyous celebration of local music, community spirit, and good old-fashioned fun."
    links:
      - "https://www.dorchesterarts.org.uk/2025/03/28/thurs-1-may-the-big-dorset-michaelmas-ceilidh/"
    start: "2025-05-01T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-01T22:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Dorchester
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Tatterdemalion
    callers:
      - Angela Laycock
    price: £7-£13
    organisation: Dorchester Arts
    source: events/uk/dorchester.yaml
  - name: Scratch Contra
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1369374107322247/"
    start: "2025-05-01T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-01T22:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Sheffield
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £5
    organisation: Sheffield Scratch Contra
    source: events/uk/sheffield_scratch_contra.yaml
  - name: The Round club night
    links:
      - "https://round.soc.srcf.net/events"
      - "https://round.soc.srcf.net/diary"
    start: "2025-05-01T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-01T22:00:00+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: May Heydays at Evesham
    links:
      - "http://mayheydays.org.uk/"
    start_date: 2025-05-02
    end_date: 2025-05-05
    country: UK
    city: Evesham
    styles:
      - contra
      - ecd
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Box of Frogs
      - "Dampier's Round"
      - Sarah Matthews & Doug Eunson
      - Folkus Pocus
      - Nicky McConkey
      - Old Time Contra Band
      - Knotted Chord
      - Mollie & Dave
      - Keeping Thyme
      - The Twangtown Paramours
      - Confluence
      - Ygra
    callers:
      - Andrew Swaine
      - Brian Stanton
      - Burt Hunter
      - Colin Hume
      - Ivan Aitken
      - Kathryn Wright
      - David Wright
      - Mark Elvins
      - Mike Courthold
      - Nicola Scott
      - Nigel Close
      - Rhodri Davies
      - Seth Tepfer
      - Ted Morse
    organisation: May Heydays
    source: events/uk/heydays.yaml
  - name: Scandimoot
    links:
      - "http://scandimoot.org.uk/"
    start_date: 2025-05-02
    end_date: 2025-05-05
    country: UK
    city: Clapham
    styles:
      - scandi
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Sven Ahlbäck
    organisation: Scandimoot
    source: events/uk/scandimoot.yaml
  - name: Irish Set Dance Weekend
    links:
      - "https://halswaymanor.org.uk/event/irish-set-2025/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/469695886118259/"
    start: "2025-05-02T16:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-04T16:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Halsway
    styles:
      - irish-set
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Rise the Dust
    callers:
      - Maggie Daniel
      - Lucy Slemmings
    price: £200-£330
    organisation: Halsway Manor
    source: events/uk/halsway.yaml
  - name: Ceilidh
    links:
      - "https://www.ceilidhsoc.org/ceilidhs/"
    start: "2025-05-02T19:45:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-02T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Sheffield
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £3-£5
    organisation: Sheffield CeilidhSoc
    source: events/uk/sheffield_ceilidh.yaml
  - name: Ceilidh Club
    links:
      - "https://ceilidhclub.com/event/london-ceilidh-club-2-5-25-cecil-sharp-house/"
    start: "2025-05-02T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-02T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - s-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £19-£25
    organisation: London Ceilidh Club
    source: events/uk/ceilidh_club.yaml
  - name: Waltzing from 1 to 11
    links:
      - "https://qwandor.dancecloud.com/dance/37589"
    start: "2025-05-03T13:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-03T15:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: false
    price: free
    organisation: Andrew Walbran
    source: events/uk/london.yaml
  - name: Clandestine Mazurka
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/2467105113649581/"
    start: "2025-05-03T16:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-03T18:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: Clandestine Mazurka London
    source: events/uk/clandestine_mazurka_london.yaml
  - name: Dansez Français
    links:
      - "http://www.dansezfrancais.org.uk/"
    start: "2025-05-03T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-03T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Brighton
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Quatre Quarts
    price: £10
    organisation: Dansez Français
    source: events/uk/dansez_francais.yaml
  - name: Edinburgh Contra Dance
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/658730426579016/"
    start: "2025-05-03T19:45:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-05-03T22:30:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Edinburgh
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Abi Sandy & Sasha Stolasz
    callers:
      - Abigail Hobart
    price: £10-£20
    organisation: Edinburgh Contra Dance
    source: events/uk/edinburgh_contra_dance.yaml
  - name: Pied à Terre Club Night
    links:
      - "https://piedaterre.me.uk/events"
    start: "2025-05-07T20:15:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-07T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Norwich
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    organisation: Pied à Terre
    source: events/uk/pat_norwich.yaml
  - name: The Round club night
    links:
      - "https://round.soc.srcf.net/events"
      - "https://round.soc.srcf.net/diary"
    start: "2025-05-08T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-08T22:00:00+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: Contra Camp
    links:
      - "https://halswaymanor.org.uk/event/contra-camp-2025/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1093639598821854/"
    start: "2025-05-09T16:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-11T16:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Halsway
    styles:
      - contra
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - WillPower
    callers:
      - Louise Siddons
      - Heather McAslan
    price: £225-£390
    organisation: Halsway Manor
    source: events/usa/trycontra.yaml
  - name: Holmfirth Festival of Folk
    links:
      - "https://www.holmfirthfestivaloffolk.co.uk/dance"
    start: "2025-05-09T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-11T15:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Holmfirth
    styles:
      - balfolk
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Wanton String Band
    callers:
      - John Brown
    price: £6-£10
    organisation: Le Vendredi Danse
    source: events/uk/le_vendredi_danse.yaml
  - name: Ceilidh Club
    links:
      - "https://ceilidhclub.com/event/london-ceilidh-club-9-5-25-cecil-sharp-house/"
    start: "2025-05-09T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-09T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - s-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £19-£25
    organisation: London Ceilidh Club
    source: events/uk/ceilidh_club.yaml
  - name: Unicorn Ceilidh
    links:
      - "http://www.unicornceilidhs.org.uk/uc05prog.html"
    start: "2025-05-09T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-09T23:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Baldock
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - The Pigeon Swing
    callers:
      - Jane Bird
    price: £7-£13
    organisation: Unicorn Ceilidhs
    source: events/uk/unicorn_ceilidhs.yaml
  - name: "d'Accord"
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/groups/149787688758876/posts/1813811482356480/"
    start: "2025-05-10T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-10T22:45:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Exeter
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Shivelight
    price: £10
    organisation: "d'Accord"
    source: events/uk/daccord.yaml
  - name: Live and Local
    links:
      - "https://www.liveandlocal.org.uk/event/?id=9001"
    start: "2025-05-10T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-10T21:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Lincoln
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Cri du Canard
    price: £12.50
    organisation: Cri du Canard
    source: events/uk/lincoln.yaml
  - name: London Barndance
    links:
      - "https://www.barndance.org/programme.html"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1298208587922046/"
    start: "2025-05-10T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-10T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Bruce Rosen & Audrey Jaber
    callers:
      - Sue Rosen
    price: £5-£15
    organisation: London Barndance Company
    source: events/uk/london_barndance.yaml
  - name: Bal Miniscule
    links:
      - "https://balfolkoxford.mmm.page/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1284715109211246/"
    start: "2025-05-11T14:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-11T19:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Oxford
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: Balfolk Oxford
    source: events/uk/oxford.yaml
  - name: Live and Local
    links:
      - "https://www.liveandlocal.org.uk/event/?id=9005"
    start: "2025-05-11T19:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-11T20:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Grantham
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Cri du Canard
    price: £10-£16
    organisation: Cri du Canard
    source: events/uk/grantham.yaml
  - name: American Spring Contra
    links:
      - "https://halswaymanor.org.uk/event/american-spring-contra-2025/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/2506928416163040/"
    start: "2025-05-12T16:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-16T10:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Halsway
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Bruce Rosen & Audrey Jaber
    callers:
      - Sue Rosen
    price: £255-£460
    organisation: Halsway Manor
    source: events/uk/halsway.yaml
  - name: Bal Étoile at Jamboree
    links:
      - "https://londonbalfolk.org.uk/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/628636959877721/"
    start: "2025-05-14T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-14T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: London Balfolk
    source: events/uk/london_balfolk.yaml
  - name: Solent Contra Dance
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/2098003330651196/"
    start: "2025-05-14T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-14T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Shawford
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £5
    organisation: Solent Contra Dances
    source: events/uk/solent_contra.yaml
  - name: The Round club night
    links:
      - "https://round.soc.srcf.net/events"
      - "https://round.soc.srcf.net/diary"
    start: "2025-05-15T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-15T22:00:00+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: Call Me Ceilidh
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1045907033611435/"
      - "https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/lost-horizon/fri-16-may-call-me-ceilidh-may-day-special-edition-115721#e115721"
    start: "2025-05-16T19:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-16T22:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Bristol
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £17.25-£20
    organisation: Call Me Ceilidh
    source: events/uk/bristol.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\nCharlie Turner will be calling with music from Box of Frogs.\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: "2025-05-16T19:45:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-16T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Bristol
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Box of Frogs
    callers:
      - Charlie Turner
    price: £6-£15
    organisation: Bristol Contra
    source: events/uk/bristol_contra.yaml
  - name: Alcester Contra
    links:
      - "https://davidfolk7.wixsite.com/alcestercontras"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/578687945115957/"
    start: "2025-05-16T19:45:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-16T22:45:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Alcester
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Audrey Jaber & Bruce Rosen
    callers:
      - Sue Rosen
    price: £4-£10
    organisation: Alcester Contra
    source: events/uk/alcester_contra.yaml
  - name: Ceilidh
    links:
      - "https://www.ceilidhsoc.org/ceilidhs/"
    start: "2025-05-16T19:45:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-16T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Sheffield
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £3-£5
    organisation: Sheffield CeilidhSoc
    source: events/uk/sheffield_ceilidh.yaml
  - name: French Dance Evening
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/650620714313771/"
    start: "2025-05-16T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-16T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Letchworth
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £5
    organisation: DanseHerts
    source: events/uk/danseherts.yaml
  - name: Knees Up Cecil Sharp
    links:
      - "http://www.kneesupcecilsharp.co.uk/programme.html"
    start: "2025-05-16T20:00:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-05-16T23:00:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Narthen
    callers:
      - Fi Fraser
      - Jo Freya
    price: £5-£15
    organisation: Knees Up Cecil Sharp
    source: events/uk/kucs.yaml
  - name: ruffCeilidh
    links:
      - "https://ruffceilidhs.org/"
    start: "2025-05-17T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-17T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cardiff
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - KettleHawk
    callers:
      - Alison Rowley
    price: £5-£12
    organisation: ruffCeilidhs
    source: events/uk/cardiff.yaml
  - 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: Ceilidh Club
    links:
      - "https://ceilidhclub.com/event/london-ceilidh-club-17-5-25-cecil-sharp-house/"
    start: "2025-05-17T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-17T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - s-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £19-£25
    organisation: London Ceilidh Club
    source: events/uk/ceilidh_club.yaml
  - name: Les Batons
    links:
      - "https://www.lesbatons.org/#dates"
    start: "2025-05-18T13:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-18T17:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Hollingbourne
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £7
    organisation: Les Batons
    source: events/uk/les_batons.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: 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: 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: Ceilidh Club
    links:
      - "https://ceilidhclub.com/event/london-ceilidh-club-23-5-25-cecil-sharp-house/"
    start: "2025-05-23T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-23T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - s-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £19-£25
    organisation: London Ceilidh Club
    source: events/uk/ceilidh_club.yaml
  - name: Le Bal-en-Rouge
    links:
      - "http://www.frenchdance.co.uk/dates.htm"
    start: "2025-05-28T19:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-28T22:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Ockbrook
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: Ockbrook French Music and Dancing
    source: events/uk/ockbrook.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: Balfolk
    links:
      - "https://www.efdss.org/whats-on/26-gigs/14384-topette-2025"
    start: "2025-05-29T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-29T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Topette
    price: £10-£18
    organisation: EFDSS
    source: events/uk/efdss.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: 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: Weedon Balfolk
    links:
      - "https://www.weedonbalfolk.co.uk/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/427145560330533/"
    start: "2025-05-30T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-30T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Weedon Bec
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Topette
    price: £8-£20
    organisation: Weedon Balfolk
    source: events/uk/badby_bals.yaml
  - name: Ceilidh Club
    links:
      - "https://ceilidhclub.com/event/london-ceilidh-club-30-5-25-cecil-sharp-house/"
    start: "2025-05-30T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-30T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - s-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £19-£25
    organisation: London Ceilidh Club
    source: events/uk/ceilidh_club.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: 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: 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: 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: Ceilidh Club
    links:
      - "https://ceilidhclub.com/event/london-ceilidh-club-31-5-25-cecil-sharp-house/"
    start: "2025-05-31T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-05-31T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - s-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £19-£25
    organisation: London Ceilidh Club
    source: events/uk/ceilidh_club.yaml
  - name: Exeter Ceilidh
    links:
      - "https://exeterceilidhs.net/"
    start: "2025-05-31T20:00:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-05-31T23:00:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Exeter
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Skermish
    price: £4-£15
    organisation: Exeter Ceilidhs
    source: events/uk/exeter_ceilidhs.yaml
  - name: Blowout Bal
    details: "Part of the Blowout - The Bagpipe Society's annual festival"
    links:
      - "https://www.bagpipesociety.org.uk/blowout/"
    start: "2025-05-31T21:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-01T00:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Tamworth
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    organisation: The Bagpipe Society
    source: events/uk/tamworth.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: Balfolk
    links:
      - "https://wegottickets.com/event/642442"
    start: "2025-06-02T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-02T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Lancaster
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Topette
    price: £9.90-£19.80
    organisation: Topette
    source: events/uk/topette.yaml
  - name: Balfolk
    links:
      - "https://wegottickets.com/event/642445"
    start: "2025-06-03T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-03T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Newcastle
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Topette
    price: £9.90-£19.80
    organisation: Topette
    source: events/uk/topette.yaml
  - name: Balfolk
    links:
      - "https://wegottickets.com/event/642447"
    start: "2025-06-04T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-04T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Sheffield
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Topette
    price: £9.90-£19.80
    organisation: Topette
    source: events/uk/topette.yaml
  - name: Pied à Terre
    links:
      - "https://piedaterre.me.uk/events"
    start: "2025-06-04T20:15:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-04T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Norwich
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    organisation: Pied à Terre
    source: events/uk/pat_norwich.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: 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: 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: Ceilidh Club
    links:
      - "https://ceilidhclub.com/event/london-ceilidh-club-6-6-25-cecil-sharp-house/"
    start: "2025-06-06T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-06T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - s-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £19-£25
    organisation: London Ceilidh Club
    source: events/uk/ceilidh_club.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: Bal
    links:
      - "https://halswaymanor.org.uk/event/bal-topette-2025/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/442762102150303/"
    start: "2025-06-07T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-07T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Halsway
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Topette
    price: £7.50-£15
    organisation: Halsway Manor
    source: events/uk/halsway.yaml
  - name: Edinburgh Contra Dance
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1275784600319353/"
    start: "2025-06-07T19:45:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-06-07T22:30:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Edinburgh
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Hoik
    callers:
      - Heather McAslan
    price: £10-£20
    organisation: Edinburgh Contra Dance
    source: events/uk/edinburgh_contra_dance.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: Balfolk
    links:
      - "https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/jam-jar/sun-8-jun-topette-2025-tour-bristol-120092#e120092"
    start: "2025-06-08T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-08T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Bristol
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Topette
    price: £9.90-£19.80
    organisation: Topette
    source: events/uk/topette.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: 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: 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
  - name: Alcester Contra
    links:
      - "https://davidfolk7.wixsite.com/alcestercontras"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/441843112110419/"
    start: "2025-06-13T19:45:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-13T22:45:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Alcester
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Larry Unger & Elke Baker
    callers:
      - Mark Elvins
    price: £4-£10
    organisation: Alcester Contra
    source: events/uk/alcester_contra.yaml
  - name: Ceilidh
    links:
      - "https://www.ceilidhsoc.org/ceilidhs/"
    start: "2025-06-13T19:45:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-13T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Sheffield
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £3-£5
    organisation: Sheffield CeilidhSoc
    source: events/uk/sheffield_ceilidh.yaml
  - name: Ceilidh Club
    links:
      - "https://ceilidhclub.com/event/llondon-ceilidh-club-13-6-25-cecil-sharp-house/"
    start: "2025-06-13T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-13T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - s-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £19-£25
    organisation: London Ceilidh Club
    source: events/uk/ceilidh_club.yaml
  - name: Le Vendredi Danse
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1035775671909454&set=pb.100064310937147.-2207520000"
    start: "2025-06-14T14:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-14T16:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Holmfirth
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £5
    organisation: Le Vendredi Danse
    source: events/uk/le_vendredi_danse.yaml
  - name: "d'Accord"
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/groups/149787688758876/posts/1813811482356480/"
    start: "2025-06-14T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-14T22:45:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Exeter
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Eelgrinders
    price: £10
    organisation: "d'Accord"
    source: events/uk/daccord.yaml
  - name: London Barndance
    links:
      - "https://www.barndance.org/programme.html"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1993827621106842/"
    start: "2025-06-14T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-14T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Larry Unger & Elke Baker
    callers:
      - Charlie Turner
    price: £5-£15
    organisation: London Barndance Company
    source: events/uk/london_barndance.yaml
  - name: Les Batons
    links:
      - "https://www.lesbatons.org/#dates"
    start: "2025-06-15T13:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-15T17:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Hollingbourne
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Oscina
    price: £7
    organisation: Les Batons
    source: events/uk/les_batons.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: 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: 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: Knees Up Cecil Sharp
    links:
      - "http://www.kneesupcecilsharp.co.uk/programme.html"
    start: "2025-06-20T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-20T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Panjandrum
    callers:
      - Pete Coe
    price: £5-£15
    organisation: Knees Up Cecil Sharp
    source: events/uk/kucs.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
    organisation: The Round
    source: events/uk/the_round.yaml
  - name: Ceilidh Club
    links:
      - "https://ceilidhclub.com/event/london-ceilidh-club-21-6-25-queens-gate-house/"
    start: "2025-06-21T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-21T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - s-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £19-£25
    organisation: London Ceilidh Club
    source: events/uk/ceilidh_club.yaml
  - name: Cam-French final celebration
    links:
      - "https://www.camfrench.co.uk/"
    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
    organisation: Cam-French
    source: events/uk/camfrench.yaml
  - name: Le Bal-en-Rouge
    links:
      - "http://www.frenchdance.co.uk/dates.htm"
    start: "2025-06-25T19:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-25T22:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Ockbrook
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: Ockbrook French Music and Dancing
    source: events/uk/ockbrook.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: Ceilidh Club
    links:
      - "https://ceilidhclub.com/event/london-ceilidh-club-27-6-25-cecil-sharp-house/"
    start: "2025-06-27T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-27T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - s-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £19-£25
    organisation: London Ceilidh Club
    source: events/uk/ceilidh_club.yaml
  - name: Summer Barn Dance
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1160047731753958/"
      - "https://www.tickettailor.com/events/weedonbarndance/1392955/r/fbe"
    start: "2025-06-27T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-06-27T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Weedon Bec
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    callers:
      - Lisa Heywood
    price: £12
    organisation: Northampton Ceilidhs
    source: events/uk/weedon_bec.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: Exeter Ceilidh
    links:
      - "https://exeterceilidhs.net/"
    start: "2025-06-28T20:00:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-06-28T23:00:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Exeter
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Crowdy-Kit
    price: £4-£15
    organisation: Exeter Ceilidhs
    source: events/uk/exeter_ceilidhs.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: Pied à Terre
    links:
      - "https://piedaterre.me.uk/events"
    start: "2025-07-02T20:15:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-07-02T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Norwich
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Ben Hooke
    organisation: Pied à Terre
    source: events/uk/pat_norwich.yaml
  - name: Stegastomp
    links:
      - "https://www.stegastomp.co.uk/"
    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: On Bouge Pop-Up
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/chris.shaw.969952/posts/pfbid02QXZ2QZ29dhGKgW8EjJeip7pbBuSHHq5be1t38CYuaX6gj8iAr8vJ5LrWSTcGNFR2l"
    start: "2025-07-04T19:15:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-07-04T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Deux Sans Frontières
      - Duo Mistral
    price: £12
    organisation: On Bouge
    source: events/uk/on_bouge.yaml
  - name: Lancaster Contra
    details: "Behind the mic: TBC\nMusicians: TBC"
    links:
      - "http://lancastercontra.org.uk/events/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/323906443504326/"
    start: "2025-07-05T13:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-07-05T16:45:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Lancaster
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £10-£15
    organisation: Lancaster Contra
    source: events/uk/lancaster.yaml
  - name: Ceilidh Club
    links:
      - "https://ceilidhclub.com/event/london-ceilidh-club-5-7-25-queens-gate-house/"
    start: "2025-07-05T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-07-05T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - s-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £19-£25
    organisation: London Ceilidh Club
    source: events/uk/ceilidh_club.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: Ceilidh Club
    links:
      - "https://ceilidhclub.com/event/london-ceilidh-club-11-7-25-grand-junction-paddington/"
    start: "2025-07-11T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-07-11T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - s-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £19-£25
    organisation: London Ceilidh Club
    source: events/uk/ceilidh_club.yaml
  - name: Bastille Bal
    links:
      - "http://www.dansezfrancais.org.uk/"
    start: "2025-07-12T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-07-12T22:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Brighton
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    organisation: Dansez Français
    source: events/uk/dansez_francais.yaml
  - name: London Barndance
    links:
      - "https://www.barndance.org/programme.html"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1631837837471114/"
    start: "2025-07-12T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-07-12T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - WillPower
    callers:
      - Louise Siddons
    price: £5-£15
    organisation: London Barndance Company
    source: events/uk/london_barndance.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: Mixed Dance - English & American
    details: "Woodborough Village Hall, NG14 6DX"
    links:
      - "https://nfdg.org.uk/club_dances.php"
    start: "2025-07-19T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-07-19T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Nottingham
    styles:
      - contra
      - ecd
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Shane & Julia Day
    callers:
      - Steve Moore
    price: £12
    organisation: Nottingham Folk Dance Group
    source: events/uk/nfdg.yaml
  - name: Ceilidh Club
    links:
      - "https://ceilidhclub.com/event/london-ceilidh-club-19-7-25-cecil-sharp-house/"
    start: "2025-07-19T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-07-19T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - s-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £19-£25
    organisation: London Ceilidh Club
    source: events/uk/ceilidh_club.yaml
  - name: Le Bal-en-Rouge
    links:
      - "http://www.frenchdance.co.uk/dates.htm"
    start: "2025-07-23T19:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-07-23T22:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Ockbrook
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: Ockbrook French Music and Dancing
    source: events/uk/ockbrook.yaml
  - name: Warwick Folk Festival
    links:
      - "https://www.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk/"
    start: "2025-07-24T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-07-27T23:55:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Warwick
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £147-£155
    organisation: Warwick Folk Festival
    source: events/uk/warwick.yaml
  - name: Ceilidh Club
    links:
      - "https://ceilidhclub.com/event/london-ceilidh-club-25-7-25-cecil-sharp-house/"
    start: "2025-07-25T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-07-25T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - s-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £19-£25
    organisation: London Ceilidh Club
    source: events/uk/ceilidh_club.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: 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: Ceilidh Club
    links:
      - "https://ceilidhclub.com/event/london-ceilidh-club-2-8-25-cecil-sharp-house/"
    start: "2025-08-02T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-08-02T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - s-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £19-£25
    organisation: London Ceilidh Club
    source: events/uk/ceilidh_club.yaml
  - name: Pied à Terre
    links:
      - "https://piedaterre.me.uk/events"
    start: "2025-08-06T20:15:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-08-06T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Norwich
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Michael Cade-Stewart
    organisation: Pied à Terre
    source: events/uk/pat_norwich.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: Ceilidh Club
    links:
      - "https://ceilidhclub.com/event/london-ceilidh-club-8-8-25-cecil-sharp-house/"
    start: "2025-08-08T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-08-08T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - s-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £19-£25
    organisation: London Ceilidh Club
    source: events/uk/ceilidh_club.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: Le Bal-en-Rouge
    links:
      - "http://www.frenchdance.co.uk/dates.htm"
    start: "2025-08-27T19:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-08-27T22:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Ockbrook
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: Ockbrook French Music and Dancing
    source: events/uk/ockbrook.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: Ceilidh Club
    links:
      - "https://ceilidhclub.com/event/london-ceilidh-club-29-8-25-cecil-sharp-house/"
    start: "2025-08-29T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-08-29T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - s-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £19-£25
    organisation: London Ceilidh Club
    source: events/uk/ceilidh_club.yaml
  - name: Pied à Terre
    links:
      - "https://piedaterre.me.uk/events"
    start: "2025-09-03T20:15:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-09-03T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Norwich
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    organisation: Pied à Terre
    source: events/uk/pat_norwich.yaml
  - name: Ceilidh Club
    links:
      - "https://ceilidhclub.com/event/london-ceilidh-club-5-9-25-cecil-sharp-house/"
    start: "2025-09-05T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-09-05T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - s-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £19-£25
    organisation: London Ceilidh Club
    source: events/uk/ceilidh_club.yaml
  - name: Ceilidh Club
    links:
      - "https://ceilidhclub.com/event/london-ceilidh-club-6-9-25-queens-gate-house/"
    start: "2025-09-06T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-09-06T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - s-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £19-£25
    organisation: London Ceilidh Club
    source: events/uk/ceilidh_club.yaml
  - name: Grand Bal
    links:
      - "https://fienta.com/grand-bal-with-naragonia"
    start: "2025-09-12T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-09-12T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Naragonia
    price: £13-£18
    organisation: London Balfolk
    source: events/uk/london_balfolk.yaml
  - name: Alcester Contra
    links:
      - "https://davidfolk7.wixsite.com/alcestercontras"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1950151225396356/"
    start: "2025-09-12T19:45:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-09-12T22:45:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Alcester
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - "Dave, Fran & Phil"
    callers:
      - Liam Binley
    price: £4-£10
    organisation: Alcester Contra
    source: events/uk/alcester_contra.yaml
  - name: Ceilidh Club
    links:
      - "https://ceilidhclub.com/event/london-ceilidh-club-12-9-25-cecil-sharp-house/"
    start: "2025-09-12T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-09-12T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - s-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £19-£25
    organisation: London Ceilidh Club
    source: events/uk/ceilidh_club.yaml
  - name: Le Vendredi Danse
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1035775671909454&set=pb.100064310937147.-2207520000"
    start: "2025-09-13T14:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-09-13T16:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Holmfirth
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £5
    organisation: Le Vendredi Danse
    source: events/uk/le_vendredi_danse.yaml
  - name: "d'Accord"
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/groups/149787688758876/posts/1813811482356480/"
    start: "2025-09-13T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-09-13T22:45:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Exeter
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £10
    organisation: "d'Accord"
    source: events/uk/daccord.yaml
  - name: London Barndance
    links:
      - "https://www.barndance.org/programme.html"
    start: "2025-09-13T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-09-13T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - King Kontra String Band
    callers:
      - Geoff Cubitt
    price: £5-£15
    organisation: London Barndance Company
    source: events/uk/london_barndance.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: ruffCeilidh
    links:
      - "https://ruffceilidhs.org/"
    start: "2025-09-20T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-09-20T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cardiff
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - 3Sticks
    callers:
      - Chris Jewell
    price: £5-£12
    organisation: ruffCeilidhs
    source: events/uk/cardiff.yaml
  - name: Ceilidh Club
    links:
      - "https://ceilidhclub.com/event/london-ceilidh-club-20-9-25-queens-gate-house/"
    start: "2025-09-20T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-09-20T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - s-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £19-£25
    organisation: London Ceilidh Club
    source: events/uk/ceilidh_club.yaml
  - name: Le Bal-en-Rouge
    links:
      - "http://www.frenchdance.co.uk/dates.htm"
    start: "2025-09-24T19:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-09-24T22:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Ockbrook
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: Ockbrook French Music and Dancing
    source: events/uk/ockbrook.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: Ceilidh Club
    links:
      - "https://ceilidhclub.com/event/london-ceilidh-club-26-9-25-cecil-sharp-house/"
    start: "2025-09-26T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-09-26T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - s-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £19-£25
    organisation: London Ceilidh Club
    source: events/uk/ceilidh_club.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: Leeds Contra
    links:
      - "http://www.leedscontra.freeuk.com/specialevents.html"
    start: "2025-09-27T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-09-27T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Leeds
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Contrary Faeries
    callers:
      - Charlie Turner
    price: £12
    organisation: Leeds Contra
    source: events/uk/leeds_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: Sytchampton Saturday dance
    links:
      - "https://www.sytchamptondanceclub.org.uk/p/dance-diary-experiment.html"
    start: "2025-09-27T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-09-27T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Sytchampton
    styles:
      - ecd
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - The Falconers
    callers:
      - Rhodri Davies
    price: £8
    organisation: Sytchampton Folk Dance Club
    source: events/uk/sytchampton.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: Pied à Terre
    links:
      - "https://piedaterre.me.uk/events"
    start: "2025-10-01T20:15:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-10-01T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Norwich
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Kerry Fletcher
    organisation: Pied à Terre
    source: events/uk/pat_norwich.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: Alcester Contra
    links:
      - "https://davidfolk7.wixsite.com/alcestercontras"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/553957054174543/"
    start: "2025-10-10T19:45:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-10-10T22:45:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Alcester
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Vertical Expression
    callers:
      - Cis Hinkle
    price: £4-£10
    organisation: Alcester Contra
    source: events/uk/alcester_contra.yaml
  - name: Le Vendredi Danse
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1035775671909454&set=pb.100064310937147.-2207520000"
    start: "2025-10-11T14:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-10-11T16:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Holmfirth
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £5
    organisation: Le Vendredi Danse
    source: events/uk/le_vendredi_danse.yaml
  - name: "d'Accord"
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/groups/149787688758876/posts/1813811482356480/"
    start: "2025-10-11T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-10-11T22:45:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Exeter
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £10
    organisation: "d'Accord"
    source: events/uk/daccord.yaml
  - name: London Barndance
    links:
      - "https://www.barndance.org/programme.html"
    start: "2025-10-11T20:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-10-11T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Linda Game Band
    callers:
      - Cis Hinkle
    price: £5-£15
    organisation: London Barndance Company
    source: events/uk/london_barndance.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: Contrabridge
    details: "Join us for our contra dance with Trip Hazard with calling from Jack Kanutin.\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\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:
      - Trip Hazard
    callers:
      - Jack Kanutin
    price: £7-£15
    organisation: Contrabridge
    source: events/uk/contrabridge.yaml
  - name: ruffContra
    links:
      - "https://ruffceilidhs.org/"
    start: "2025-10-18T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-10-18T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cardiff
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - WillPower
    callers:
      - Mic Spenceley
    price: £5-£12
    organisation: ruffCeilidhs
    source: events/uk/cardiff.yaml
  - name: Harrogate Contra
    links:
      - "http://harrogatecontra.org.uk/events.html"
    start: "2025-10-18T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-10-18T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Harrogate
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Linda & Philip
    callers:
      - Louise Siddons
    price: £6-£10
    organisation: Harrogate Contra
    source: events/uk/harrogate_contra.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: Le Bal-en-Rouge
    links:
      - "http://www.frenchdance.co.uk/dates.htm"
    start: "2025-10-22T19:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-10-22T22:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Ockbrook
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: Ockbrook French Music and Dancing
    source: events/uk/ockbrook.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: On Bouge Pop-Up
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/chris.shaw.969952/posts/pfbid02QXZ2QZ29dhGKgW8EjJeip7pbBuSHHq5be1t38CYuaX6gj8iAr8vJ5LrWSTcGNFR2l"
    start_date: 2025-11-01
    end_date: 2025-11-01
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Duo Mistral
    organisation: On Bouge
    source: events/uk/on_bouge.yaml
  - name: Lancaster Contra
    details: "Behind the mic: Rhodri Davies\nMusicians: Ben Farmer, Chris Dixon, and Arthur Capelier-Mourguy"
    links:
      - "http://lancastercontra.org.uk/events/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/3356256961340365/"
    start: "2025-11-01T13:30:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-11-01T16:45:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Lancaster
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - "Ben Farmer, Chris Dixon & Arthur Capelier-Mourguy"
    callers:
      - Rhodri Davies
    price: £10-£15
    organisation: Lancaster Contra
    source: events/uk/lancaster.yaml
  - 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
  - name: Pied à Terre
    links:
      - "https://piedaterre.me.uk/events"
    start: "2025-11-05T20:15:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-11-05T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Norwich
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Gallica
    organisation: Pied à Terre
    source: events/uk/pat_norwich.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: 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
  - name: Le Vendredi Danse
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1035775671909454&set=pb.100064310937147.-2207520000"
    start: "2025-11-08T14:30:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-11-08T16:30:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Holmfirth
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £5
    organisation: Le Vendredi Danse
    source: events/uk/le_vendredi_danse.yaml
  - name: Nottingham Mixed Dance
    links:
      - "https://www.nfdg.org.uk/club_dances.php"
    start: "2025-11-08T19:30:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-11-08T23:00:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Nottingham
    styles:
      - contra
      - ecd
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Chris & Julie Dewhurst
    callers:
      - Neil Stuart
    organisation: Nottingham Folk Dance Group
    source: events/uk/nfdg.yaml
  - name: "d'Accord"
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/groups/149787688758876/posts/1813811482356480/"
    start: "2025-11-08T19:30:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-11-08T22:45:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Exeter
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £10
    organisation: "d'Accord"
    source: events/uk/daccord.yaml
  - name: London Barndance
    links:
      - "https://www.barndance.org/programme.html"
    start: "2025-11-08T20:00:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-11-08T23:00:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: London
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Fiddlechicks
    callers:
      - Lynne Render
    price: £5-£15
    organisation: London Barndance Company
    source: events/uk/london_barndance.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: ruffCeilidh
    links:
      - "https://ruffceilidhs.org/"
    start: "2025-11-15T19:30:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-11-15T23:00:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cardiff
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - "Cat's Claw"
    callers:
      - Mic Spenceley
      - Ned Clamp
    price: £5-£12
    organisation: ruffCeilidhs
    source: events/uk/cardiff.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: Friday Folk Saturday Special
    links:
      - "https://fridayfolk.org.uk/"
    start: "2025-11-22T19:30:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-11-22T22:30:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: St Albans
    styles:
      - ecd
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £12
    organisation: Friday Folk
    source: events/uk/st_albans_friday_folk.yaml
  - name: Le Bal-en-Rouge
    links:
      - "http://www.frenchdance.co.uk/dates.htm"
    start: "2025-11-26T19:00:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-11-26T22:00:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Ockbrook
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: Ockbrook French Music and Dancing
    source: events/uk/ockbrook.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: Leeds Contra
    links:
      - "http://www.leedscontra.freeuk.com/specialevents.html"
    start: "2025-11-29T19:30:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-11-29T23:00:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Leeds
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Portland Drive
    callers:
      - Geoff Cubitt
    price: £12
    organisation: Leeds Contra
    source: events/uk/leeds_contra.yaml
  - name: Contrabridge
    details: "Join us for our contra dance with Definitely Contraband with calling from Adam Hughes.\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\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:
      - Definitely Contraband
    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: Pied à Terre
    links:
      - "https://piedaterre.me.uk/events"
    start: "2025-12-03T20:15:00+01:00"
    end: "2025-12-03T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Norwich
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - BOF!
    organisation: Pied à Terre
    source: events/uk/pat_norwich.yaml
  - name: Le Vendredi Danse
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1035775671909454&set=pb.100064310937147.-2207520000"
    start: "2025-12-13T14:30:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-12-13T16:30:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Holmfirth
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £5
    organisation: Le Vendredi Danse
    source: events/uk/le_vendredi_danse.yaml
  - name: Sytchampton Saturday dance
    links:
      - "https://www.sytchamptondanceclub.org.uk/p/dance-diary-experiment.html"
    start: "2025-12-13T19:30:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-12-13T22:30:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Sytchampton
    styles:
      - ecd
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Vicky Swan & Jonny Dyer
    callers:
      - Ivan Aitken
    price: £8
    organisation: Sytchampton Folk Dance Club
    source: events/uk/sytchampton.yaml
  - name: "d'Accord"
    links:
      - "https://www.facebook.com/groups/149787688758876/posts/1813811482356480/"
    start: "2025-12-13T19:30:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-12-13T22:45:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Exeter
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £10
    organisation: "d'Accord"
    source: events/uk/daccord.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
  - 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: Le Bal-en-Rouge
    links:
      - "http://www.frenchdance.co.uk/dates.htm"
    start: "2025-12-27T19:00:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-12-27T22:00:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Ockbrook
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: free
    organisation: Ockbrook French Music and Dancing
    source: events/uk/ockbrook.yaml
  - name: Bal de Noel
    links:
      - "http://www.dansezfrancais.org.uk/"
    start: "2025-12-27T20:00:00+00:00"
    end: "2025-12-27T22:00:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Brighton
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    organisation: Dansez Français
    source: events/uk/dansez_francais.yaml
  - name: Pied à Terre
    links:
      - "https://piedaterre.me.uk/events"
    start: "2026-01-07T20:15:00+01:00"
    end: "2026-01-07T22:30:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Norwich
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    organisation: Pied à Terre
    source: events/uk/pat_norwich.yaml
  - name: ruffCeilidh
    links:
      - "https://ruffceilidhs.org/"
    start: "2026-01-17T19:30:00+00:00"
    end: "2026-01-17T23:00:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cardiff
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Oxford Nags
    callers:
      - Aidan Hansell
    price: £5-£12
    organisation: ruffCeilidhs
    source: events/uk/cardiff.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: ruffContra
    links:
      - "https://ruffceilidhs.org/"
    start: "2026-02-21T19:30:00+00:00"
    end: "2026-02-21T23:00:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cardiff
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Bearded Dragons
    callers:
      - Charlie Turner
    price: £5-£12
    organisation: ruffCeilidhs
    source: events/uk/cardiff.yaml
  - name: ruffCeilidh
    links:
      - "https://ruffceilidhs.org/"
    start: "2026-03-21T19:30:00+00:00"
    end: "2026-03-21T23:00:00+00:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cardiff
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Green/Matthews
    price: £5-£12
    organisation: ruffCeilidhs
    source: events/uk/cardiff.yaml
  - name: ruffContra
    links:
      - "https://ruffceilidhs.org/"
    start: "2026-04-18T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2026-04-18T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cardiff
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: £5-£12
    organisation: ruffCeilidhs
    source: events/uk/cardiff.yaml
  - name: ruffCeilidh
    links:
      - "https://ruffceilidhs.org/"
    start: "2026-05-16T19:30:00+01:00"
    end: "2026-05-16T23:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Cardiff
    styles:
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Diatonics
    price: £5-£12
    organisation: ruffCeilidhs
    source: events/uk/cardiff.yaml
  - name: Blowout Bal
    details: "Part of the Blowout - The Bagpipe Society's annual festival"
    links:
      - "https://www.bagpipesociety.org.uk/blowout/"
    start: "2026-05-30T21:00:00+01:00"
    end: "2026-05-31T00:00:00+01:00"
    country: UK
    city: Tamworth
    styles:
      - balfolk
    workshop: false
    social: true
    organisation: The Bagpipe Society
    source: events/uk/tamworth.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: Electric Folk Dance Party
    links:
      - "https://electricfolkdance.party/"
    start_date: 2026-10-09
    end_date: 2026-10-11
    country: UK
    city: Hope
    styles:
      - balfolk
      - contra
      - e-ceilidh
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Apolkalypse
      - Bearded Dragons
      - Portmanteau
    organisation: Electric Folk Dance Party
    source: events/uk/hathersage.yaml