Welcome to the Cambridge folk home page

These pages are intended to tell you about the folky things you can do in and around Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.

If you wanted Cambridge, MA, USA then try here.

If you wanted the Cambridge Folk Festival then try here.

links: Dance index CMM Contra Folk Club Mayflower Molly Reel club Round

Dance English/American The Harston and Haslingfield clubs meet on alternate Tuesdays. The Round meets on Thursdays. Contra meets on alternate Fridays The Oakington Country Dance Club meets once a month, on Fridays. An index of dances and where they were published. Morris Cambridge Morris Men Coton Morris Men actually practise in Fen Ditton Devils Dyke Morris Men meet in Bottisham Ely and Littleport Riot are a Women's Border side Gog Magog Molly Manor Mill Morris are a Ladies NW Clog side Milton Morris, despite their name, they are based in Pampisford Scottish The Reel club meet on Mondays The Cambridge Scottish Society meet on Thursdays The RSCDS Cambridge branch organise various events and classes. French French dancing happens from time to time (mostly Wednesdays, I think), see here Irish Irish Set dances on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. International The Cambridge International Club do all sorts of things, but in particular they dance on Monday evenings 8:30-10:30 at St Columba's Hall (entrance from Downing Place - off Downing Street) Early Dance The Capriol Society dance dances from the European Courts from the 14th to 17th centuries. They meet at 7:45-9:45 on Tuesdays, at St Mark's Church hall, Barton Road. Line Dance, Square Dance Line Dance - Bassingbourne Line Dance - Houghton Triple A Squares - Huntingdon on Fridays various others Ceilidh Bands Abandon (Alan Roberts 01354 656208) Akmeds Camel Ceilidh Band Big Round Band A University dance club that can field a band too The Ceili Allstars CU Ceilidh Band A University club that has been known to play in two May Balls at once Crofters Cunning Plan Eel Pie Elusive Black Dog Fen Blow Fendragon Great Eastern Ceilidh Company Hannibal's Heroes The Jumping Beans Magogs The News of the Victory Swindlers and Gentry Wide Glide (Steve Bardell: 01638 751483) Must be lots of others out there (plus any number from further afield who would be willing to travel to Cambridge) Music and Song Clubs The Mayflower club meet on Tuesdays The Cambridge Folk Club meet on Fridays The Porrtland Folk Club meet on Sundays The Dunton Folk Club are just across the border into Bedfordshire The Ely Folk Club The Hitchin Folk Club The The Baldock and Letchworth Club meets in Baldock on Wednesdays The St Neots Folk Club Sessions These come and go, so this is probably out of date, but On Monday evenings there is an Irish session in the Swan, Mill Road, Cambridge. Hazel Fairburn runs a Fiddle Group on Mondays at the St Paul's Centre, Hills Road The Boot in Histon has a singaround on the first Tuesday of the month. The Plough and Fleece in Horningsea (CB25 9JG) has a session at 8.30 on Thursdays Fulbourn Hospital Sports and Social Club a session on the third Thursday of the month (8.30-11: contact Barry on 01223 722927) The Labour club (Mill Rd/Coleridge Rd) has an Irish session on Sunday evenings The Hardwicke Arms in Arrington has a session on alternate Sunday afternoons (run by Nigel Pennick -- keepinguptheday AT gmail DOT com) The Old Bull Inn in Royston has a session on the fourth Thursday of the month (run by hilary.w AT mypostoffice.co.uk) Cambridge Comhaltus run Irish fiddle/accordion/bodhran lessons on Wednesday evenings at the Rathmore club on Cherry Hinton Road. Join the Yahoo Cambridge-folk-sessions mailing list Cambridge Cafe Band Co-op not sure it counts as a session, but it's a chance to play folk music Guilden Morden has a church that runs Folk Nights on the first Saturday of the month In Ramsey, Jingles Music Club play folk/Blues/etc on the second Thursday of the month at the George Hotel Annual folk music course at Burwell Week-long summer school at Burwell House Further afield Peterborough & South Lincs Folk Diary Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival (January) Essex Folk Association Herts Folk Association Norfolk Folk directory Suffolk Folk Association Norfolk and Suffolk dance Chiltern Folk Leicester and Rutland Folk Association Hitchin Folk Club Staplers dance club (in Hitchin) Unicorn Ceilidhs (in Hitchin) Bedford Fine Companions dance club Ely folk club and their Ely folk festival Fendango Playford dance group in Little Downham Fenland Arts support music and dance in the Fens Links Cambridge University Dancers' club (mostly ballroom, but with lots of links) English Folk Dance and Song Society Acoustic Routes Martin Kiff's Webfeet pages Set and Turn Single magazine site Random Stuff Unicorn Folk magazine The Country Dance Club Book Teaching Folk Dance Newsgroups (mostly defunct these days!) rec.folk-dancing A general folk-dance news group with strong contra leanings uk.music.folk