Workshops & Sessions
​
​​It's all about participation on this page. Join in, have fun - and maybe learn something new!
Session at The Green Man
Saturday 12pm - 2pm
The Green Man, Victoria Road
Free singaround with Les Sullivan of Wareham Whalers.
All welcome to come and sing, play or just enjoy.
FolkActive
Saturday 10.30am to 11.30am & 12pm to 1pm
Outside Salamander, High Street
​
Come and try southern step dancing with FolkActive. Short drop-in workshops will show you the basics of this fun and accessible tradition and get you dancing in under 10 minutes! Absolutely any age or experience welcome.
EuroBal with Confluence
Sunday, 2.45pm - 4.45pm
Wimborne Methodist Church, King Street
​
From the Workshop Facilitators: Join us for our French Dance Workshop & Bal. We start at 2.45pm with a workshop led by Steve Earwicker, looking at the wide variety of French dances – bourrées, schottisches, waltzes, mazurkas, and more! We will also look at some simple Breton dances. As well as teaching the basics, we will look at style and variation in the dances – how to make a French dance look and feel French. Steve has run the French Dance Workshops at Chippenham, Evesham, Bridport & Swanage Folk Festivals, as well as helping to run EuroBal Wessex.
After the workshop, we have the rest of the session up to 4.45pm for a very special French Bal with Confluence Folk Duo – Gill Redmond on ‘cello & Alasdair Paton on accordion. Since playing their first Euro dance at Chippenham festival in 2018, Confluence have played at multiple festivals in the south of England including Sidmouth, Swanage and Bridport, and played concert sets at folk and cabaret clubs in Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire. They have also been playing for bal-folk dancing around the south of England, and for their own EuroBal Wessex events at Ibsley, Hampshire and Poundbury in Dorchester.