2022
Saturday, November 19, 2022
Dance leaders: Joanna Reiner Wilkinson & Brad Foster
Ball music: Karen Axelrod, Eric Martin, Anna Patton
Rehearsal music: Eleanor Lincoln, Pat MacPherson
Sound: Dereck Kalish
Schedule: practice session 2:00pm to 4:30pm, evening ball 7:00pm to 10:30pm
- Barham Down [rec. Tom Cook (the quick AAB version); Come Let’s Be Merry; The Playford Assembly] <video>
- Beautious Grove [rec. Andrew Shaw; Elephants Stairs] <video>
- Bellamira [rec. Douglas & Helen Kennedy; Country Dance Book — New Series; The Playford Assembly]
- The Bonny Cuckoo [Gail Ticknor; Gail’s Maggots; Dances for Volume 2; tune: Si Bheag, Si More, by Turlough O’Carolan] <video>
- Companions [Victor Skowronski; CDSS News #183; Roby’s resource of Victor’s dances; tune: Rhone II, Mon Amy, by Tielman Susato] <video>
- * The Fandango [rec. W.S. Porter; The Apted Book; The Playford Ball] <video>
- Gambols [Jenna Simpson; Under the Influence; tune: The Shepherd and Shepherdess, published by Thompson 1799] <video>
- The Hole in the Wall [rec. Douglas & Helen Kennedy; Country Dance Book — New Series; The Playford Ball; Dances for Volume 3] <video>
- Key to the Cellar [Jenny Beer; Key to the Cellar; tune: traditional] <video>
- Midwinter Maggot [Gary Roodman; A Group of Calculated Figures; Dances for Volume 15; tune by Jonathan Jensen] <video>
- New Map [Margaret & Jeff Bary; unpublished; tune by Anna Patton] <video>
- The Ragg [rec. Rich Jackson & George Fogg; The Neal Collection; Dances for Volume 3; The Playford Assembly] <video>
- Sapphire Sea [Christine Robb; on the CDS Boston Centre Dance Collection; tune Tom Kruskal’s, by Amelia Mason & Emily Troll] <video>
- Shandy Hall [George Middleton; Still Not Quite Playford; Dances for Volume 4; tune by George Middleton] <video>
- Well Donne [Jenna Simpson; Revelations; tune: Poet Laureate, undated] <video>
- * For Those Who Know
(2020, 2021: cancelled because Covid)
2019
Inaugural Ball: November 16, 2019
Dance leaders: Joanna Reiner Wilkinson & Brad Foster
Music: Alchemy — Eric Martin, Rachel Bell, Karen Axelrod
Sound: Bob Mills
- Apollo’s Hunt [Gary Roodman; Even Odder Calc. Fig.] <video>
- Bar a Bar [rec. Fried Herman; The Naked Truth] <video>
- Bel Canto [Susan Kevra; unpublished] <video>
- Bloomsberry Market [rec. Andrew Shaw; Farnicle Huggy] <video>
- Cadgers’ Caper [Gary Roodman; Sum Further Calc. Fig.] <video>
- The Dancing Wife [Gary Roodman; Additional Calc. Fig.] <video>
- The Farmer’s Joy [Joseph Pimentel; The Goldcrest Collection] <video>
- The Haymakers [rec. G. Fogg & R. Jackson; A Choice Collection (Neal), adapted] <video>
- Hudson Barn [J. Schwab & C. Hammond; Hudson Barn] <video>
- King’s Maggot [rec. Andrew Shaw; Elephant Stairs] <video>
- Leather Lake House [rec. Fried Herman; The Naked Truth] <video> {first dance in series}
- Maiden Lane [rec. Cecil Sharp; The Country Dance Book 3] <video>
- * Mayfair [Colin Hume; New Dances From Old] <video>
- A New Leaf [B. Friendly & C. Sackett; Impropriety 6] <video>
- Quite Carried Away [Pat Shaw; Pat Shaw’s Pinewoods, adapted to 4 couple set] <video>
- Revelations [Jenna Simpson; unpublished] <video>
- * Step Stately [rec. Cecil Sharp; The Country Dance Book 4] <video>
- Whately Barn [Gary Roodman; Prime Calculated Figures] <video>
- * For Those Who Know