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Tuesday 7pm Irish Class
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Wednesday 5.30pm Beginners Class
Wednesday  6.30pm Improvers Class
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Contact Jill:   jillyelliot@gmail.com 07515 904 707

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Highly Strung Events 2024
Band members who confirm their attendance at specific events via email will receive a specific tunes list via email

Date and Time 2023

 Event Venue
2024    
Saturday 20th January - 7.30pm Rotary Charity Barn Dance Somerset Hall, Portishead
Wednesday 13th March 3.15-4.00pm Memories at the Barn Tithe Barn, Nailsea
Wednesday 27th March - 2pm Retirement Village Entertainment St. Monica's Trust, Bedminster
Saturday 13th April - 11am or 2pm Eat Festival Italian Gardens, Weston Super Mare
Sunday 26th May 11am or 2pm Eat Festival Portishead Marina
Friday 14th June 7pm Clapton Concert St. Michael's Church, Clapton in Gordano
Saturday 20th July 12-3 (we play 2-3 tbc) Portishead in Bloom Big Picnic Jubilee Park Portishead Marina
Sunday 4th August 11am-12 and 2pm-3pm Sidmouth Festival Triangle by the bus stops
Saturday 10th August 11am or 2pm Eat Festival  Portishead Marina
Saturday 28th September 11am or 2pm Eat Festival Italian Gardens, Weston Super Mare
Saturday 19th October 7pm-10.30pm Charity Barn Dance (only space for 12) Hutton Village Hall
Saturday 2nd November 7-10.30pm This is a  Perfect Cure Band booking. (Jill, Mark and Norma) with Highly Strung in support. Pill Memorial Club
Saturday 9th November 7pm-10.30pm Charity Barn Dance Hayswood Village Primary School
Saturday 7th December 11am or 2pm Eat Festival Crown Glass Shopping Centre, Nailsea
 

 

Barn Dance Playlist July-December 2024

* tunes with an asterisk are being taught in Wednesday evening groups

Alexandrine March Set

Tarantella/Liberty Bodice

*Buffalo Girls G, Winster Galop, Wiltshire 6 hand reel

Buttered Peas, Jenny Lind, Davy Davy Nick Nack, Buttered Peas

Dashing White Sergeant, White Cockade, Dashing White Sergeant

Monks March, Centenary March, March of St. Timothy

*Watzing Matilda, Click Go the Shears, Paddy McGinty's Goat

*Quaker's Wife, Nancy Dawson, John Grumlie

Sweets of May, Dingle Regatta

Brighton Camp, The Sloe, One More Dance and Then