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 club meets on Tuesdays in alternating village halls. The Round meets on Thursdays. Contra meets on alternate Fridays The Histon (Oakington) Country Dance Club meets once a month, on Fridays. Contrabridge is a monthly Contra dance series in central Cambridge, on Saturdays. An index of dances and where they were published. A Google Calendar of events in Cambridge (not as complete as it might be!). 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 Fenstanton Morris practise on Mondays in Fenstanton Gog Magog Molly Manor Mill Morris are a Ladies NW Clog side 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 Tuesdays, I think, with occasional Scandi), see Balfolk Cambridge Early Dance The Capriol Society dance dances from the European Courts from the 14th to 17th centuries. They meet one Saturday afternoon a month in Coton Village Hall. Line Dance, Square Dance Line Dance - Bassingbourne Line Dance - Houghton Cambridge Squares Fridays, roughly monthly various others Ceilidh Bands Beatroot Big Round Band A University dance club that can field a band too CU Ceilidh Band A University club that has been known to play in two May Balls at once Fen Blow Firecrest Frog on a Bike Stumpy Oak Swindlers and Gentry Wide Glide (Steven Bardwell: 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 Black Fen club meet on Sundays in the old Dales Brewery, Gwydir St 7-10pm The Cambridge Folk Club meet on Fridays in the Golden Hind, Milton Road The Dunton Folk Club are just across the border into Bedfordshire The Ely Folk Club The Hitchin Folk Club The The Baldock Folk Club meets in Baldock on alternate Wednesdays The St Neots Folk Club Sessions These come and go, so this is probably out of date, but On Monday evenings there is an Irish session in the White Swan, Mill Road, Cambridge. On alternate Mondays in the Black Horse, Melbourn the Greenshoots Music Group play traditional dance music. The Boot in Histon has a singaround at 8.30 on the first Tuesday of the month. The Six Bells (in Covent Garden, off Mill Road) has a Bluegrass and Old Time session on the second Wednesdays at 8:30. Contact Jim on 07803 158084 Cambridge Comhaltas run Irish fiddle/accordion/bodhran lessons on Wednesday evenings at the Rathmore club on Cherry Hinton Road. Swaffham Prior Folk Club has a session in the Red Lion on the second Wednesday of the month. (8-11: contact Phil on 01638 741743) On 3rd Wednesdays there's a Eurosession in the Devonshire Arms, Devonshire Road, Cambridge from 8pm Old Ferryboat Inn, on the river at Holywell near St Ives. Tune session on the first Thursday each month from 7.30-10. A friendly and not too fast a session, with inexperienced players encouraged. Play by ear and/or from music. Contact Clive Quick 07801 027141 The Plough and Fleece in Horningsea (CB25 9JG) has a session at 8.30 on Thursdays Burwell Folk Club at the Ex Service & Social Club has a session on the fourth Thursday of the month from 8-11pm 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) Join the Yahoo Cambridge-folk-sessions mailing list 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 Norfolk/Suffolk/Essex Folk directory Chiltern Folk Bedford Fine Companions dance club Peterborough FDC on Facebook dance club Staplers dance club (in Hitchin) Unicorn Ceilidhs (in Hitchin) Ely folk club and their Ely folk festival UK FolkLinks an attempt at a UK-wide directory 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 Polka Round Cyril Papworth's book of Comberton dances The Country Dance Club Book Teaching Folk Dance Richard Powers says dancing makes you smarter (well, less at risk from dementia)