Welcome to the Round

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Cambridge University English Country Dance Club

 
 

The Playford Ball will be on Saturday 15th June 2013
at St Bede's School with Folkus Pocus.
Tickets are £10 only available in advance; see the Playford Ball page for more details.

The Weekly Round is every Thursday in Full Term at 8:00, in the Wesley Church Hall, King Street.
If you are a student, your first term is free; if you have a job, your first time is free.
No partner or experience required.

The Weekly Round will start again on Thursday 25th April 2013.

The May Week Ceilidh will be on Thursday, 20th June in Emmanuel College Old Library. 8pm, £4.00/£6.00. No partner or experience required.

Don't forget to sign up to the Round mailing list! To join, go to lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/soc-round.

 
 

Club stuff

About the Round
Diary of events
Ceilidhs
The Big Round Band
The Playford Ball
The Punt Party
The Summer Round
The Inter-Varsity Folk Dance Festival
Maps to meetings and events
The committee
Mailing lists you should be on
Links to further information
Our constitution
Core repertoire of dances
Hugh's history of the Round
Dance history of dances called at the weekly Round
The Old Round, History of London Pride
Web site credits

Dance and music resources

Index of resources on this site
What are Playford dances? Includes a Playford family tree
Elements of English Country Dance (comprehensive explanation of Country Dance terminology)
Better dancing is more fun
A definitive answer about Siding
Notes on Calling
The Perfect Caller
Palmer's Pocket Playford (an aide-memoire of common Playford dances)
Kentucky Running Set (as danced by the Round)
The Country Dance Book (original Cecil Sharp publications which started all of this).
The Round Band Book of Playford (music to Palmer's Pocket Playford)
FAQs for Teachers

picture of a weekly meeting