London Barndance Picture Gallery

Rhodri Davies	Rhodri and Weston Country Dance Band	John Meechan and Screen Door Band	Screen Door Band
Mark Elvins	Mark and the Weston Country Dance Band	John and Mary Brock
Fat Harry	Fat Harry	Mollie Koenigsberger
Henry Morgenstein	Jacqui and Henry Morgenstein	Cis Hinkle
Lisa Greenleaf	The Groovemongers on stage 8th May 2004	C W Abbott	The Groovemongers
Last Waltz

These were taken at the Halsway Manor contra weekend 8-12 April 2004:

Essence of Fiddle

These were taken by Kerstin Lankuttis on 12th June 2004:

The Big Band dance on 9th December 2006:

Anthony Bearon: Trombone/piano
Rachel Bearon: Concertina
Thomas Bending: Banjo/recorder
Judith Cooper: Fiddle
Ali Messer: accordion
Mike Green: Mandolin/mandola
Caroline Hollingshurst: fiddle
Dan Hollingshurst: piano/trumpet
Bill Keys: bones/whistle/sound desk
Colin Messer: Guitar/bodhran/whistle
Holly Norton: Fiddle/Piano
Robbie Thomas: Guitar

Movie clips

London Barndance channel on YouTube - a lot of this is the 'danced at a distance' video projects we did during COVID lockdowns.

London Barndance events:

Other events with bands and callers that we use:

To get a feel for what it is like to dance contra, try Doug Plummer's The Contra Dance on Vimeo

Here are some short movie clips that were sent to us from the USA by Richie Katz:

This is exactly the sort of dancing that you will find at London Barndance.

Fiddlin' Around - Bowing Out

300 people gathered at Cecil Sharp House on 8th December 2007 for Fiddlin' Around's final performance. Malcolm, Andrew, Bob and Brian generated even more musical energy than usual: this was their 23rd appearance at London Barndance having made their debut at our event on 8th May 1998.

Rhodri Davies called the dances - mainly contras with a few other forms for variety, and even managed to fit in a grid square with over 200 people on the floor!

Rhodri	Bob	Malcolm	Andrew	Brian

Photos by Stephen Webb:

Movies by Stephen Webb:

Note that these are very large files. You need a good broadband connection to view them

Fiddlin' Around (38MB)

Fiddlin' Around (125MB)

Fiddlegang

Brian Stone's latest project: three fiddles and an accordion, a fusion of musical styles, and great energy!

Here's a movie of Fiddlegang with John Meechan calling at London Barndance in January 2009.

Fat Harry

Mollie, Ali, and Vic: onstage at C# House with John Turner 11th June 2011

Here's a movie of Fat Harry with John Turner calling at London Barndance in February 2009.

London Barndance 300th event celebrations

A whole gallery for the event:

Mark Elvins and the Stringrays

Rodney Miller's New England band on tour in the UK, playing for us at C# House on 9th May 2015. This event has its own gallery page:

Virtual Dances

Our first virtual dance was on 9th May 2020. A week or so before the event we sent out a link to a piece of music - a waltz in this case - and asked people to send us short videos of them dancing to it. We got 31 clips which we edited into a composite video called Lockdown Waltz which was shown during the event. This was so popular that we continued doing composite videos each month until mid-2021. You will find all of them on our YouTube channel.

December 2021

Back at C#, this video clip was taken at our last event of 2021 with Rhodri Davies calling and The AliKatz playing (Mollie, Ali, Leddy and Adam).

YouTube Channel

There is now a London Barndance YouTube channel It has all of our composite videos and also a lot of music and calls put together by musicians and callers working at home and passing recordings from one to the next while laying down more tracks.

Publicity pictures

Here are some hi-res pictures of LBC bands, callers, and events for publicity purposes.

The pictures on this page were taken by Andrew Findlay unless otherwise noted.