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Week 11: Happy St Patricks Day

Hello!It’s St Patricks Day this week, so we filmed the Kahlua Jig & Reel in our dance at Symmetry on Tuesday. I told the story of how I came to write these two tunes, which was as an audition tape … Continue reading

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Website Update

Today I have installed SSL on this site and the sister site – I’m hoping it’s all gone well! It should hopefully mean that it no longer comes up as Not Secure. I’m also hoping it’s not broken either site!Fingers … Continue reading

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Week 10: Suffolk Playford Ball!

Hello!Week 10 was a really busy week. We were out doing medieval work in schools followed by two dances, which meant I missed the Friday mail out! We decided to try something neon Saturday and that was to film and … Continue reading

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Week 9: Medieval Schools Week

Hello!This week we’ve been on the road being all medieval for some primary schools. We love doing these workshops watching the excitement on all the children’s faces. Such fun! Now we’re back we can’t believe it’s March already!!! So what’s … Continue reading

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Week 8: A week at home

Hello!We’ve been home this week. But we did have two Symmetry dances! I’m adding one to the update this week and one next week. I took a quick tally of the number of lessons on this site. It seems to … Continue reading

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Week 7: News from the A1

Hello!We’ve had a great time down in the South West for a week. I’m now doing this entry from the car as we head north to York. Jonny has written the soundtrack to the finale – including a very fine … Continue reading

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Week 6: From a Rainy Cornwall

Hello!This week we’re out on the road playing in folk clubs in Cornwall and Devon. It’s very, very rainy! So what’s new this week?Catch Club on Sunday has Henry Purcell’s To All Lovers of Music. It seems an appropriate catch! … Continue reading

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Week 5: Lots of different tunes!

Hello!Sorry this update is late! This week was supposed to be a relatively calm one. But we had three last minute events get put into the diary and everything got somewhat behind! Jonny is still writing for a show at … Continue reading

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Week 4: Back from ESI

Hello!That was an amazing week at the Eric Sahlström Institute – I can’t believe I’ve been back home four days already. To prevent this update being too long I have written up the experience I a separate blog entry. But … Continue reading

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Eric Sahlström Institute January 24 Trip

Hello!We’re just back from an awesome weekend! I took a group of people over to the Eric Sahlström Institute for a weekend. It felt very much like taking a class abroad on a school trip! We were 10 British people … Continue reading

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