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Top: Arts: Performing_Arts: Dance: Folk: English_Country_Dancing
| If the band does not play principally for dancing, or does not come with a caller, it should be submitted to a suitable category in the Arts: Music tree, such as Arts: Music: Styles: Folk: Bands and Artists: Traditional Anglo-Celtic. |
English country dances are social dances, generally for groups of three to five couples, or for any number of couples in a longways-set or a circle. They are usually performed with either a dance-walk, or (relatively) simple steps - much of the interest deriving instead from the floor patterns and interaction between dancers.Originating in England, they spread to colonial America and mainland Europe.
| If the band does not play principally for dancing, or does not come with a caller, it should be submitted to a suitable category in the Arts: Music tree, such as Arts: Music: Styles: Folk: Bands and Artists: Traditional Anglo-Celtic. |
English country dance bands, playing primarily for country dances, barn dances and ceilidhs. They will be able to provide a caller, who leads the participants through each dance in turn.Bands listed in this category may play in a variety of styles, from traditional folk, through to rock or jazz influenced.
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The best sites for this category are those with ec specific dance notations, tips for callers, general and historic information about the ec scene in the UK and abroad. You may also submit: Regular ceilidh events - only events that are exclusively or primarily EC events. Band sites - please only submit these if they are primarily a ceilidh band. If they do more general stuff there is likely a more appropriate category for them. Please do not submit Scottish and Irish ceilidh stuff. |
English ceilidh is a name given to a modern take on the traditional English dances: they are performed with lively steps, often to an eclectic selection of music.
In 1650/51, John Playford published The English Dancing Master, containing instructions for country dances. Subsequent editions and supplements were published under the name The Dancing Master by John and Henry Playford, and John Young until c.1728.
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