Dances Lent 2023

This page lists the dances that were called at The Round during the Lent Term 2023.

You can find dances for other terms at https://round.soc.srcf.net/dhist, or you can search the whole dance history for a particular dance or caller, or list the dances called most often in a range of years.

For more information about any of the dances, try Hugh Stewart’s English Country Dance Database or Antony Heywood’s Dance Database.

Week 1 (19 January)

Jane Usher

  • The Fandango
  • Sapphire Sea
  • Indian Queen
  • Grimstock
  • Black Nag

Spikey Griffiths

  • Sun Assembly
  • Fiddleheads
  • Emma’s Waltz
  • The Geudman of Ballangigh
Week 2 (26 January)

Hugh Stewart

  • The Dressed Ship
  • The Dancing Wife
  • Chinese Breakdown
  • Midnight Ramble

Isabelle Woodford

  • The Black Nag
  • Grimstock

John Thoburn

  • The Fast Packet
  • Autumn Moon
  • Never Love Thee More
Week 3 (2 February)

Colin Hume

  • Cherry Stones
  • For Louise
  • Aw Shucks
  • Little Man in a Fix

Matthew Vernon

  • Westmorland
  • Well Hall
  • Sun Assembly
  • Grimstock
  • Childgrove
Week 4 (9 February)
  • Nottingham Swing (1)
  • Mount Hills (1)
  • The Hole in the Wall (1)
  • Kelsterne Gardens (1)
  • The Bishop (1)
  • Shrewsbury Lasses (1)
  • Indian Queen (2)
  • Nonesuch (3)
  • The Caller’s Wife (4)
  • On the Midway (5)
  • Turning by Threes (6)
  1. Anthony Stone
  2. Spikey Griffiths
  3. Hannah Stone
  4. Bob Ridout
  5. John Thoburn
  6. Jane Usher
Week 5 (16 February)

Jane Usher

  • The Geudman of Ballangigh
  • The Pleasures of the Town
  • The Lover’s Knot
  • La Boulangère
  • La Russe
  • The Black Nag

Colin Hume

  • The Collier’s Daughter
  • Jenny, Come Tie My Cravat
  • The Linton Rocket
  • Chain on Both Corners
Week 6 (23 February)

Hannah Stone

  • The Bishop
  • Nonesuch
  • Fandango
  • Hunsdon House
  • Apley House

Bob Ridout

  • Dick’s Maggot
  • For Helen
  • Apollo’s Hunt
  • If I Had Maggie in the Wood
  • Sybil’s Roundabout
Week 7 (2 March)

Spikey Griffiths

  • The Round Pond
  • The Long Pond
  • Top of the Deck

Isabelle Woodford

  • Childgrove
  • La Russe

Charlie Turner

  • Mendocino Redwood
  • The Young Widow
  • Long Odds
  • The Short and the Tall
  • Alamo Square
Week 8 (9 March)

Erin Young

  • The Midnight Ramble
  • The Shrewsbury Lasses
  • Long Odds
  • The Touchstone
  • The Lasses of Portsmouth
  • The Pleasures of the Town

Hugh Stewart

  • Mr Cosgill’s Delight
  • Newcastle
  • Kitchen Triad
  • Long Live London
  • Redwing
Party (16 March)
  • The Black Nag (1)
  • The Bonny Cuckoo (1)
  • Sun Assembly (2)
  • The Shrewsbury Lasses (3)
  • Branles de Bourgoigne (4)
  • La Russe (5)
  • The Young Widow (5)
  • The Percolator (5)
  • The Amazed Geneticist (6)
  • Jenny Pluck Pears (6)
  • The Duke of Kent’s Waltz (2)
  • Levi Jackson Rag (5)
  1. Anthony Stone
  2. Charlie Turner
  3. Jane Usher
  4. Ido Kons
  5. Hugh Stewart
  6. Spikey Griffiths