Butt Lane Community Centre

This was our first time at Butt Lane where they really know how to dress for an occassion (see below). Sorry about all the blurred photos – I really will get around to reading the manual one day. How I miss Mike, who actually knows how to take a picture. We also had an humbling lesson in who are the important members in the band. During the first dance we tripped the dreaded sound meter and due to some excentric wiring in the hall it only cut out the fiddle and mandolin leavingthe drums, bass and guitar unaffected. The dancers carried on as if nothing had happened – and there was me thinking you actually listened to the tunes.

Sylvia's dances for your Moody Food Dance Card:

The Cock o' the North / 100 Pipers
Glasgow Gallop
The Flying Scot
Goatland Square Eight
Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
Circle Hornpipe
Strip the Willow
The Gravel Walks / Crowley's Reels
A Simple Longways Set
The Siege of Delhi / The Earl/s Chair
The Snowball
Circle Mixer 
Postman's Knock
Shebag an Shemor / Give Me Your Hand
Polka Off
The Dashing White Sergeant
The Old Swan Gallop
Circassian Circle

Ceili Chic at Butt Lane.

Newcastle Congregational Church Hall

It was all yellow – an Easter birthday dance for Vikki although Bill, Jen and Liz somehow all managed to get a free birthday party as well! Fortunately we all managed to get to the gig in spite of the snow although we missed a trick by not playing the tune Easter Snow.

Sylvia's dances for your Moody Food Dance Card:

The Cock o' the North / 100 Pipers
Glasgow Gallop
The Flying Scot
Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
The Snowball
Happy Birthday Vikki
Happy Birthday Bill and Jen
Happy Birthday Vikki (again)
Happy Birthday Liz
The Siege of Delhi / The Earl/s Chair
Midnight on the Water / Waltz Vienna
Goatland Square Eight
Circle Waltz
Oxo Reel
The Gravel Walks / Crowley's Reels
Polka Off
Shebag an Shemor / Give Me Your Hand
Circassian Circle

Vikki's Birthday Cake.

The Old Brown Jug, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Celebrating St Patrick's Eve with a bar dance (geddit?) at The Old Brown Jug with the Moody Food Ceili Band and Candida. We had everything you need for a bit of a hooley – plenty of Guinness, songs and enough rigs and jeels to jig-a-jig the night away. 

Now that you've all sobered up you'll need this handy set list to explain why you were doing all that happy-clappy stuff:

The Lark in the Morning / Langstom's Pony (jigs)
The Belle of Belfast City (song)
Do You Love and Apple (song)
The Kesh / Mist on the Mountain / Blackthorn Stick / Morrison's (jigs) 
The Gravel Walks / Crowley's (reels)
Raglan Road (song)
Dirty Old Town (song)
Whiskey in the Jar (song)
Molloy's Favourite / The Foxhunter / Cooley's (reels) 
The Siege of Delhi / The Earl's Chair (reels) 
Sally Maclennane (song)
Galway Girl (song)
Polka Off (dance) 
The Star of the County Down (song)  
Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie (waltz and fiddle tune)
Tortured Tangled Heart (song)
Southern Flavor (fiddle tune)
Circassian Circle (dance)