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Barn Dancing and Ceilidh Bands

Article Category: Advice

Author Name: Sarah Boys

The way to run a barn dance or ceilidh
Barn dances are a fun and sociable type of dancing that mostly occur in informal places which include village halls, barns and wedding venues. They are incredibly simple to organise. An average sized village hall will be all you'll want to start with after which invite an audience and book a band and caller. The size of the crowd is going to be dependent upon the proportions of the hall that you have booked. Typically barn dances are organised for 60 to 100 dancers. The more dancers you have then the more opportunities there are for dancers chill out whilst other dancers dance.

Serving food
Being a member of a barn dance band I've had a good amount of experience of barn dance food, and refreshments typically range from hot suppers to cold ploughmans. Jacket potatoes with various fillings, burgers and salad and fish and chips are very common fare at barn dances followed by homemade desserts. Licensing permitting organisers may want to sell alcohol or invite dancers to have their own drinks. The band will always welcome a glass or two and Hullabaloo barn dance band's favourite drink at the dance is a great cup of tea!

Do we need to learn how to dance?The excellent thing about barn dances is you can be a complete beginner and still dance every dance. The caller can tell you the dance from the outset whilst the dancers walk through the steps. After a simple recap the music will begin and the caller will call the instructions as the dancers whisk through the dance to music. As the dancers are more familiar to the instructions then the dances could be made more advanced and sometimes speeded up. The energy is amazing and the dances may become thrilling when you are carried away by the music. Dancers will typically start in sets of four or five couples. These may be long ways sets, square sets or circles. Most individuals were shown barn dancing as children, at school, by means of country dancing and familiar dances could be the Gay Gordons, Virginia Reel, The Cumberland Square Eight (yes using the basket), Foula Reel and Strip the Willow.

Who's in the band?
Barn dance bands are typically made up of a fiddle, bass and accordion. In recent times guitars, banjos, drums and flutes are all added to the mix. Hullabaloo barn dance and ceilidh band is comprised of a fiddle, banjo and bass. The music played is often a combination of Scottish, Irish, English and sometimes American and mainland European tunes.

Hullabaloo Barn Dance and Ceilidh Band
Hullabaloo barn dance band has been playing for over many years in the Reading and Kingston area. We play for all types of events covering anything from village socials and fetes, school fund-raising, corporate events, milestone birthdays, Scottish dancing groups, St Patrick's Day and St Andrew's Day events, anniversaries and weddings. We typically play for as much as three hours including breaks and customarily from around 8.00pm - 11.00pm. We would welcome the opportunity to play for your event and look forward to your call.

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