Maer, Sharon and Garry

Congratulations Sharon and Garry on your wedding. I think that this must have been one of the smallest venues that we have played in for a wedding reception. Venues often have their own particular charm and the village hall at Maer, small and square with its large windows letting in the evening sunlight, made quite an impression on me. The photos don't really show this but it was a lovely day and I'm glad that we were a part of it.

Here are Sylvia's dances for your Moody Food Dance Card:

Sharon and Gary's First Dance
The Cock O' The North
The Glasgow Gallop
Goatland Square Eight
Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
The Snowball
Clopton Bridge
The Siege of Delhi / The Earl's Chair
The Gay Gordons
Waltz (Midnight On The Water)
Lucky Seven
Polka Off
Circassian Circle
Patsy Geary's Jig

Sandhole, Kathryn and Chris

Mount Pleasant

The Moody Food Ceili Band with Sylvia Fisher.

Happy Birthday Wes and well done Helen for organising a fantastic night – the secret email accounts and clandestine phone calls finally paid off. Good to see the Black Dog Molly dancers again. We've played a number of gigs with the Mollys over the years. I think the first time was at the wedding of Annie and Doug, who started it all off, when we were known as Cut-Throat Jake. We also had a display of Appalachian dancing from Mind the Step with music from the Helsby All Stars.

Besides all the dancing we had some great interval music from Josh who played a stonking set on the banjo, Escher's Waltz and Black Jack before getting his Dad up to play bull fiddle on Nine Pound Hammer and Take Me Back To Tunstall.

If you like bluegrass come and see Plucked! at the Coachmaker's Arms in Hanley on the second Wednesday of every month.

Here's a link to some more of Mike's photos of the evening with instructions on how to download them.


The Dances

Happy Birthday Wes
The Cock O' The North / 100 Pipers
The Snowball
Circle Mixer
Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
Drops of Brandy
The Siege of Delhi / The Earl's Chair
Siege of Ennis
Boston Tea Party
Molloy's Favourite / The Foxhunter's Reel / Cooley's Reel
The Willow Tree
Waltz (Midnight On The Water)
Circassian Circle

Dukes 92, Anna and Jim

The wedding dance of Anna and Jim at Dukes 92 in Manchester. Nice daps Anna!

The Dances

Behind The Hatstack / Merrily Danced The Quaker's Wife
Anna and Jim's First Waltz (Midnight On The Water)
The Snowball
Oxo Reel
Orkney Strip The Willow
Thady U Ganda
Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
The Gay Gordons
Shebag An Shemor / Give Me Your Hand
The Siege of Delhi / The Earl's Chair
Cumberland Square Eight
Circassian Circle
Cock Of The North / 100 Pipers