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2nd February 2025
BAL & SESSION
Our regular bal & session. We will start with a short beginner’s workshop at 2pm and will continue dancing until 5pm. You do not need a partner to come and dance with us.
Musicians are always welcome to join the house band. Check out our tune book for an idea of the sorts of things we might play.
The afternoon includes a shared meal. Please bring a plate of food to share. Drinks will be available from the kitchen.
when
Sunday 2nd February
2pm – 5pm
tickets
General admission tickets are £5 on the door to help cover the cost of the venue.
Under-16s are free when supervised by a responsible adult.
Carers are free.
30th March 2025
BAL & SESSION
Our regular bal & session. We will start with a short beginner’s workshop at 2pm and will continue dancing until 5pm. You do not need a partner to come and dance with us.
Musicians are always welcome to join the house band. Check out our tune book for an idea of the sorts of things we might play.
The afternoon includes a shared meal. Please bring a plate of food to share. Drinks will be available from the kitchen.
when
Sunday 30th March
2pm – 5pm
tickets
General admission tickets are £5 on the door to help cover the cost of the venue.
Under-16s are free when supervised by a responsible adult.
Carers are free.
30th May 2025
TOPETTE!!
BAL
Topette!! occupy a unique position in the current folk and traditional music landscape. A collaboration between five highly-regarded individuals from two countries, they’re the kind of perfect idea that, if they didn’t already exist, someone would have to invent. Yet Topette!! are no mere ‘project’ band. They’re a fully-formed and functioning group of the kind that rarely comes around nowadays. Topette!! are a true collective – bonded as much by the joy found in each other’s company as in their shared musical vision.
Julien Cartonnet is a powerhouse on both bagpipes and banjo. Fiddler James Delarre’s innate melodic and harmonic sensibilities make him the perfect match for accordion virtuoso Andy Cutting. Tania Buisse’s propulsive bodhrán playing and Barn Stradling’s singularly distinctive bass grooves complete a sound that is irresistible to ears and feet alike.
Come for a dance, no partner necessary, or to listen to this band at the top of their game! The bar will be open with a selection of drinks, including locally brewed beers from the Roman Way Brewery in Weedon.
when
Friday 30th May
7:30pm – 10:30pm
Doors open at 7pm
tickets
General admission tickets are £18 when booked in advance, £20 on the door
Under-16 tickets are £8 when booked in advance, £10 on the door (when supervised by a responsible adult)
Under-5 are free when supervised by a responsible adult
Carers are free, please email us to book a ticket for them.
FUTURE DATES
2025
October 12th
November 30th
PAST EVENTS
5th January 2025
DUO MARTIN GODEFROI
FÊTE DES ROIS
An eagerly anticipated New Year fixture, Duo Martin Godefroi are coming to Weedon Balfolk.
Cédric Martin comes from Alsace and is a maestro on the button accordion. He has led tours to England with Expire, Moussaka, Big Jeans, and Salmanazar for the last 15 years or so. On this tour Cédric will be joined by Samuel Godefroi on violin. Samuel is a member of Blam, a great French balfolk trio. So with Cédric on button accordion and Samuel on violin they make great danceable music. This accordion and fiddle duo will be touring to teach and play for traditional French dances in Tinwell, Sheffield, and Weedon.
The afternoon includes a shared meal. Please bring a plate of food to share. Drinks will be available from the kitchen.
when
Sunday 5th January
2pm – 5pm
This event is now in the past.
where
Weedon Village Hall
West Street
Weedon Bec
NN7 4QU
ALLONS-Y! WEEDON
Allons-y! Let’s go!
WORKSHOPS
Grow in confidence by spending the afternoon with one of our expert tutors. Dancers will be tearing up the balfolk floor after learning new dances with Ravi. Musicians, try out your sparkly new skills in the session after the workshop with Mel. Workshops provide great opportunities for meeting like-minded folks, so if you don’t know anyone beforehand, you surely will by the time the bal begins!
BAL
Moving into the evening, enjoy double the balfolk fun as our tutors will be back… on stage this time! Mel Biggs will tempt you onto the dance floor with her compelling compositions and signature rhythmical box playing. Then trio Sawney White Bird (Ravi, Heather, and Jane) will keep you there with their fresh and energising balfolk sounds. And that’s not all! We will finish off with a session and more dancing.
when
Saturday 21st September
3pm – 10pm
This event is now in the past
where
Weedon Village Hall
West Street
Weedon Bec
NN7 4QU
MEL BIGGS
MIDSUMMER BAL
Mel Biggs is a dancer, musician, and highly-renowned melodeon tutor based in Derbyshire, England. She has performed on some of the biggest UK festival stages including Sidmouth, Musicport, Shrewsbury, Dartmoor, Whitby Folk Week, Broadstairs. She has been immersed in the world of Balfolk for a number of years, rubbing shoulders with many European musicians along the way. Come and dance as she weaves gorgeous continental grooves together with her own irresistible style.
The afternoon includes a shared meal. Please bring a plate of food to share. Drinks will be available from the kitchen.
We will also be having a musician’s session, so do bring an instrument if you fancy joining in.
when
Sunday 23rd June
2pm – 5pm
This event is now in the past
where
Weedon Village Hall
West Street
Weedon Bec
NN7 4QU
ANNA PACK & DAVE SHEPHERD
SPRING BAL
Anna Pack (Oscina) and Dave Shepherd (Blowzabella) have been playing together for over a decade. Their style combines Anna’s signature rhythmical box playing with Dave’s melody-driven fiddle lines. They both have extensive experience of the European folk scene. We can’t wait to dance to this fantastic duo!
The afternoon includes a shared meal. Please bring a plate of food to share. Drinks will be available from the kitchen.
We will also be having a musician’s session, so do bring an instrument if you fancy joining in.
when
Sunday 24th March
2pm – 5pm
This event is now in the past
where
Weedon Village Hall
West Street
Weedon Bec
NN7 4QU
AIRBOXES
EVENING BAL
Weedon Balfolk and On Bouge are delighted to announce this last minute opportunity to see and dance to Airboxes live in Weedon Bec!
Airboxes is atmospheric dance music brought to you by Bert Leemans and Guus Herremans on chromatic and diatonic accordion. They solely play their own compositions. The variation in intimate solos and colourful interplay makes for an all-encompassing totality.
Two men, two accordions, one story.
when
Friday 2nd February 2024
7pm – 10:30pm
This event is now in the past.
where
Weedon Village Hall
West Street
Weedon Bec
NN7 4QU
SAWNEY WHITE BIRD
FÊTE DES ROIS
It’s La Fête des Rois at Weedon Balfolk!
Delighted to announce we have secured the fabulous Sawney White Bird to play for us in the second half.
The first half is session style as usual, so bring some tunes as well as your dancing shoes.
Bring a plate of food to share.
when
Sunday 7th January 2024
2pm – 5pm
This event is now in the past.
where
Weedon Village Hall
West Street
Weedon Bec
NN7 4QU