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Members’ Announcementhttps://www.efdss.org/about-us/what-we-do/news/15304-members-announcement
by the name and can find it old-fashioned and exclusive with its references to only two artforms and a society; there is little to entice them in from our name alone. This is doubly true of the acronym ‘EFDSS’ (pronounced ‘eff-diss’ or ‘e-f-d-s-s’),...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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Peter Knight and John Spiershttps://www.efdss.org/whats-on/26-gigs/15075-knight-spiers-2025
Thursday 13 November 2025, 7:30pmat every turn. “When two of the most venerated figures in the recent history of folk music get together, there can be little doubt that the result will be something special” - KLOF "An extraordinary collaboration between two musicians at the absolute...- Type: Article
- Author: Box Office
- Category: Gigs
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Monday Folk Singershttps://www.efdss.org/about-us/what-we-do/news/15001-monday-folk-singers-news
easier to share images and audio with the group than it is in most in-person spaces. Along with that, I also try to cover a little bit of basic theory as to how folksong melodies are constructed, how harmonies work and how we might approach setting...
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8 and Sunday 9 November 2025 VENUE: Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London NW1 7AY Organisers: Julia Bishop, Alice Little and Tiffany Hore (Director, VWML)
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- Author: Sammie Squire
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Balkanplushttps://www.efdss.org/whats-on/27-dances/14532-balkanplus-15-03-2025
Saturday 15 March 2025, 6:00pmthe same and no partners required. The steps can be picked up as you go along or are sometimes demonstrated if they are a little more complex. Everyone is welcome to come along and dance to the beautiful music of south eastern Europe. £10 pay on the...- Type: Article
- Author: EFDSS Editor
- Category: Dances
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Balkanplushttps://www.efdss.org/whats-on/27-dances/14533-balkanplus-14-06-2025
Saturday 14 June 2025, 6:00pmthe same and no partners required. The steps can be picked up as you go along or are sometimes demonstrated if they are a little more complex. Everyone is welcome to come along and dance to the beautiful music of south eastern Europe. £10 pay on the...- Type: Article
- Author: EFDSS Editor
- Category: Dances
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Balkanplushttps://www.efdss.org/whats-on/27-dances/14534-balkanplus-13-09-2025
Saturday 13 September 2025, 6:00pmthe same and no partners required. The steps can be picked up as you go along or are sometimes demonstrated if they are a little more complex. Everyone is welcome to come along and dance to the beautiful music of south eastern Europe. £10 pay on the...- Type: Article
- Author: EFDSS Editor
- Category: Dances
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Balkanplushttps://www.efdss.org/whats-on/27-dances/14535-balkanplus-13-12-2025
Saturday 13 December 2025, 6:00pmthe same and no partners required. The steps can be picked up as you go along or are sometimes demonstrated if they are a little more complex. Everyone is welcome to come along and dance to the beautiful music of south eastern Europe. £10 pay on the...- Type: Article
- Author: EFDSS Editor
- Category: Dances
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folk culture is being recognised more in the past few years? Absolutely. When I first began on this journey, there was very little interest outside the communities that practiced them, and this has most definitely changed in recent years. I think this...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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Tuesday 25 November 2025, 7:30pmBen Webb (Jinnwoo, Green Ribbons), and multi-instrumentalist and producer Tom Pryor. Together they collect little known and forgotten lyrics, poems and stories from around the UK, and set them to their own “hypnotically original compositions” (fRoots).....
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- Author: Liberty Rowley
- Category: Folk Club
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an example of your playing (this can be a YouTube clip/sound recording or vimeo reel etc), and a cover email telling us a little about yourself, what you play, and why you’d like to be considered for this project. The deadline to send in this...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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The intern guide to EFDSS!https://www.efdss.org/about-us/what-we-do/news/13765-intern-guide-to-efdss
Education) for experience-based learning as part of her university studies. The intern guide to EFDSS! I’d like to say a little bit about myself! I’m an American university student studying abroad for the semester. My hometown is Nashville, Tennessee,...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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in order to understand the background, the gargantuan task involved, and the significant benefits it will bring. There is little need for repetition here, but I would like to emphasise the fact that this daunting undertaking is not a vanity project;...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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the Midlands to raise money for their families. Apart from singing strongly at local Methodist Chapels, these men had little musical background. Conducted by the local baker, some choir members learnt to sing using the tonic-sol-fa method...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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The rise of Queer Ceilidhshttps://www.efdss.org/about-us/what-we-do/news/13730-eds-queer-ceilidhs
hosted by the Manchester University Folk and Ceilidh Society brought together a group of a dozen young folkies who had little expectations for attendance. Upon arriving at the small corner allocated to them – placed nearby a noisy DJ tent – they...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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Wednesday 25 September 2024, 7:30pmfolk movement. Her latest release is the album ‘Black Letter Garland’ as part of collaborative Hack Poet’s Guild (One Little Independent 2023) with Marry Waterson & Nathaniel Mann. Lisa has also tutored the Traditional Song Class at EFDSS for many years...
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- Author: Box Office
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Jacken Elswyth with support from Fen https://www.efdss.org/whats-on/26-gigs/13944-jacken-elswyth
Tuesday 13 August 2024, 8:00pmstops you in your tracks not once but twice: firstly, with the sheer excellence of Elswyth’s playing and then, if you dig a little deeper, with the breadth of its implications.' -KLOF Magazine Fen Fen is a project led by Evie Hilyer-Ziegler, Francis...- Type: Article
- Author: Box Office
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Festive Gathering https://www.efdss.org/whats-on/26-gigs/14039-festive-gathering-2024
Sunday 08 December 2024, 7:00pmBanana! explores singalong and the mechanics of comic song. As a storyteller, Matthew recently released his version of The Little Prince on Prima Classic. Matthew creates serious shows about migration such as The Transports, broadcast on BBC Radio...- Type: Article
- Author: Box Office
- Category: Gigs
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project was born. It is still in its infancy, but new dances are being added all the time. Some Playford dances are a little dull for today’s dancers and, without all the fancy footwork of the past, there is often too much music for the available steps....
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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Lectureshttps://www.efdss.org/vwml-events/past-events/past-events-lectures
Malchair’s ‘Third Collection of Tunes’ and other 18th century tune books at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library by Alice Little John Malchair (1730-1812) was a violinist and artist in Oxford, who spent his ‘leasure howers’ collecting music from Wales,...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
- Category: VWML - Content
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