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Highly Strung Events 2025

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

Date and Time 

Event Venue
Saturday 18th January 7.30pm-10.30/11pm Charity Barn Dance Somerset Hall, Portishead
 

 

Barn Dance Playlist

* 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, 

Dashing White Sergeant, Bottom of the Punchbowl, White Cockade, Dashing White Sergeant

Monks March, Centenary March, March of St. Timothy

*Waltzing 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

Introduction tune
Smuggler's Wedding Dance  1 all tune, 2/3 with har
Filler Music - from 7pm-7.30 and between dances if required
A Starry Night Set
Wakefield Hunt
Bear Dance em
King of the Fairies em 
Enrico and Harmony
Michael Turner's Waltz G
Galopede, Astley's Ride
Man in the Moon G
Finale Tune
Stow Quickstep D/ High Caul Cap D