EuroBal with Confluence

Sunday, 2.45pm - 4.45pm. Wimborne Methodist Church, King Street

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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.