Betley Village Hall

Fantastic dancing and nosh from the Betley crowd as usual. Reg got his clackers out to jam with the band and the little ones used their dance cards &ndash a perfect night! Hope to see some of you at our New Year's Eve bash.

Sylvia's dances for your Moody Food Dance Card:

• Cock o' the North / 100 Pipers
• Glasgow Gallop
• Dorchester Caper
• Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
• Daniel's Delight
• Circle Hornpipe
• Midnight on the Water / Waltz Vienna
• Stoke Golding Country Dance
• Ashokan Farewell
• The Seige of Delhi / The Earl's Chair
• Circle Mixer
• Cornish Six Hand Reel
• Shebag an Shemor / Give me your Hand
• Polka Off
• The Willow Tree
• Circassian Circle

 

Checkley Community Centre

Photos of Gina's birthday bash with The Moody Food Ceili Band and Sylvia Fisher at Checkley Community Centre. Gina tells us that she's ignored advice since 1974 and that although she loved the cake she expects a real bottle of gin for her 50th!

Sylvia's dances for your Moody Food Dance Card:

• The Cock o' the North / 100 Pipers
• Dorchester Caper
• Circle Hornpipe
• Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
• Goatham Square Eight
• The Gravel Walks / Cowley's Reels
• Old Swan Gallop
• Happy Birthday Gina
• The Siege of Delhi / The Earl's Chair
• The Snowball
• Circle Mixer
• Molly's Favourite / The Foxhunter / Cooley's Reels
• Stoke Golding Country Dance
• Midnight on the Water / Waltz Vienna
• Polka Off
• Shebag an Shemor / Give me your Hand
• Circassian Circle
• Southern Flavor

 

 

Beresford Dale, Naomi and Ollie

If you're going to get married in a field you might as well choose one with a decent view. Congratulations Naomi and Ollie.

Sylvia's dances for your Moody Food Dance Card:

• Circassian Circle
• The Snowball
• Goatham Square Eight
• Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
• Dorchester Caper
• Circle Hornpipe
• The Seige of Delhi / The Earl's Chair
• Cornish Six Hand Reel
• Stoke Golding Country Dance
• Circle Waltz
• Circassian Circle

 

Goostrey Rose Day

Photos from Goostrey Rose Day ceilidh with the Moody Food Ceili Band and Sylvia Fisher. This year there was a return visit from the children of Elizabethfontein School in the Western Cape which is twinned with Goostrey.

Sylvia's dances for your Moody Food Dance Card:

• Nordal Rumba
  
• Behind the Haystack / Merrily Danced the Quaker's Wife
  
• The Cock o' the North / 100 Pipers
• Four around Four
• The Snowball
• Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
• Circle Hornpipe
• The Siege of Delhi / The Earl's Chair
• Strip the Willow
• The Siege of Ennis
• Keswick Square Eight
• Polka Off
• Old Swan Gallop

 

 

Meir Heath Village Hall

 

Cheadle Guild Hall

A hot night in Cheadle for Marion's birthday dance with The Moody Food Ceili Band. A very strange thing happened at 10.30 though – all the men disappeared! (I think it was football related).

Sylvia's dances for your Moody Food Dance Card:

• The Cock o' the North / 100 Pipers
• The Snowball
• Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
• Barndance
• Goatham Square Eight
• Happy Birthday Marion
• The Seige of Delhi / The Earl's Chair
• Circle Waltz
• Shebag an Shemor / Give me your Hand
• Southern Flavor
• Oxo Reel
• Midnight on the Water / Waltz Vienna
• The Gay Gordons
• Molloy's Favourite / The Foxhunter / Cooley's Reels
• Clopton Bridge
• Circassian Circle

 

Laura and Ian, Upper House Barlaston

Congratulations Laura and Ian!

 

This was my first time with Moody Food at Upper House, Barlaston although I have vague memories of playing here before.

Sylvia's dances for your Moody Food Dance Card:

• Laura and Ian's first dance (All of Me - John Legend)
• The Cock o' the North / 100 Pipers
• The Snowball
• Goatham Square Eight
• Freak Out
• The Siege of Delhi / The Earl's Chair
• Clopton Bridge
• Darcey's Revenge (Swedish Masquerade)
• Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
• Shebag an Shemor / Give Me Your Hand
• Molloy's Favourite / The Foxhunter / Cooley's reels
• Polka Off
• Circassian Circle

 

The George Hotel, Lichfield

Debbie and Ron's celebration dance in the Garrick Room of the George Hotel, Lichfield with the Moody Food Ceili Band. Some things really are worth celebrating with family and friends – we hope you both had a lovely day.

Sylvia's dances for your Moody Food Dance Card:

• Cock o' the North / 100 Pipers
• The Snowball
• Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
• Goatham Square Eight
• The Siege of Delhi / The Earl's Chair
• Circle Waltz
• Stoke Golding Country Dance
• Shebag an Shemor / Give me your Hand
• Clopton Bridge
• The Humours of Scarrif / Some Say the Devil is Dead
• Old Swan Gallop
• Midnight on the Water / Waltz Vienna
• Postman's Knock
• Circassian Circle

 

 

Laura and Ian, Upper House Barlaston

Congratulations Laura and Ian!

 

This was my first time with Moody Food at Upper House, Barlaston although I have vague memories of playing here before.

Sylvia's dances for your Moody Food Dance Card:

• Laura and Ian's first dance (All of Me - John Legend)
• The Cock o' the North / 100 Pipers
• The Snowball
• Goatham Square Eight
• Freak Out
• The Siege of Delhi / The Earl's Chair
• Clopton Bridge
• Darcey's Revenge (Swedish Masquerade)
• Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
• Shebag an Shemor / Give Me Your Hand
• Molloy's Favourite / The Foxhunter / Cooley's reels
• Polka Off
• Circassian Circle

 

Mount Pleasant Village Hall

Happy Birthday Gillian, Lola and Jason!

Sylvia's dances for your Moody Food Dance Card:

• The Sligo Maids / The Promenade
• Simple Longways Set
• The Snowball
• Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
• Goatham Square Eight
• Christmas Eve / The Lads of Laois
• Circle Hornpipe
• Oxo Reel
• Happy Birthday Gillian
• Happy Birthday Lola
• Happy Birthday Jason
• The Siege of Delhi / The Earl's Chair
• Pattercake Polka
• Stoke Golding Country Dance
• Shebag an Shemor / Give me your Hand
• The Flying Scot
• The Gravel Walks / Crowley's Reel
• Clopton Bridge
• Ashokan Farewell
• Circassian Circle
• Southern Flavor

Gillian's cake.

Lola's cake

 

The Madeley Centre

Back to the Madeley Centre with the Moody Food Ceili Band for a night of dancing with Sylvia Fisher and scrummy food from Just Jane — what's not to like?

Sylvia's dances for your Moody Food Dance Card:

• The Cock o' the North / 100 Pipers
• Oxo Reel
• Goaltland Square Eight
• Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
• Circle Mixer
• Clopton Bridge
• The Humours of Scariff / Some Say the Devil is Dead
• Old Swan Gallop
• The Seige of Delhi / The Earls's Chair
• Circle Waltz
• Stoke Golding Country Dance
• Shebag and Shemor / Give me your Hand
• Waterloo Dance
• Ashokan Farewell
• Circassian Circle

 

Red House Farm

Happy Birthday Jonny!

Back to Red House Farm with The Moody Food Ceili Band and Sylvia Fisher for a proper barn dance in a proper barn.

• Heel and Toe Polka
• Lake Arthur Stomp / Empty Bottle Stomp
• The Lark in the Morning / Langstern's Pony
• Midnight on the Water / Waltz Vienna
• Fly Away / Turkey in the Straw / Seneca Square Dance
• Circassian Circle
• Flying Down the Trail (Woo Hoo)
• Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
• Simple Longways Set
• Pattercake Polka
• Happy Birthday Jonny
• Glasgow Gallop
• Strip the Willow
• The Gravel Walks / Crowley's Reel
• Goatham Square Eight
• The Snowball
• Geoff's Tune
• Circassian Circle
• Cock o' the North

 

Ingestre Hall

 

A lovely evening dance with The Moody Food Ceili Band and Sylvia at Ingestre Hall for John and Barbara.

Sylvia's dances for your Moody Food Dance Card:

• The Cock o' the North / 100 Pipers
• The Glasgow Gallop
• A Simple Longways Set
• The Gravel Walks / Crowley's Reel
• Circle Hornpipe
• Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
• Goatham Square Eight
• Shebag an Shemor / Give me your Hand
• The Siege of Delhi / The Earls's Chair
• Circle Waltz
• The Snowball
• Molloy's Favourite / The Foxhunter / Cooley's Reels
• Postman's Knock
• The Humours of Scarrif / Some Say the Devil is Dead
• Clopton Bridge
• Circassian Circle
• Southern Flavor

 

Ashbourne, Empire Ballroom

The Ashbourne 2014 Highland Fling – an evening of Scotttish Fayre and Entertainment with the Ashbourne and District Pipe Band, Warwick Adams, Jessica and Jonathan Whilock and The Moody Food Ceili Band with Sylvia Fisher.

Sylvia's dances for your Moody Food Dance Card:

• The Lark in the Morning / Langstern's Pony
• Ashbourne and District Pipe Band
• The Gay Gordons
• The Dashing White Sergeant
• Strip the Willow
• St Bernard's Waltz
• Cutting Bracken / The Connaught Man's Rambles / My Love in the Morning
• Ashbourne and District Pipe Band
• Supper of haggis, tatties and neeps with music played by Jessica and Jonathon Whilock on uillean pipes
• Warwick Adams reciting Robbie Burns poems
• Molloy's Favourite / The Foxhunter / Cooley's Reels
• St Bernard's Waltz
• The Barley Reel
• Cumberland Reel
• Circle Waltz
• Shebag an Shemor / Give me your Hand
• Glasgow Gallop
• The Siege of Delhi / The Earl's Chair
• The Dashing White Sergeant
• Auld Lang Syne
• The Cock o' the North / 100 Pipers