Brighton's live music dance club for Eurodancers and Francophiles!
Saturday 23 February 2019
Emmanuel Pariselle and Bernard Subert
Emmanuel, well known in UK as a melodeon maker, solo player, and member of Five Men in a Boat and La Bergère, composer of
session favourite La Nonchalente, makes a welcome return to Brighton, in the company of
Bernard, who was in Quintet Clarinettes, Cabestan, le Trio Kordu, Terre Nuevas... a veritable piping polymath!
Emmanuel, well known in UK as a melodeon maker, solo player, and member of Five Men in a Boat and La Bergère, composer of
session favourite La Nonchalente, makes a welcome return to Brighton, in the company of
Bernard, who was in Quintet Clarinettes, Cabestan, le Trio Kordu, Terre Nuevas... a veritable piping polymath!
Instrumental "masterclass"
Gascony & Brittany - tunes, chords, styles ...
for melodeon, concertina, pipes, whistle, clarinet, and stringed instruments
Doors open 3.30pm, workshop until 6 £8 (if poss, please advance book here)
Bal Folk
8 until 11pm £7.50
Gascony & Brittany - tunes, chords, styles ...
for melodeon, concertina, pipes, whistle, clarinet, and stringed instruments
Doors open 3.30pm, workshop until 6 £8 (if poss, please advance book here)
Bal Folk
8 until 11pm £7.50
£15 ticket for workshop & bal
Optional from 6.30 - l'auberge espagnole (French communal meal before the Bal,
bring food to share, not forgetting your own plate & cutlery, drink & a glass!
bring food to share, not forgetting your own plate & cutlery, drink & a glass!
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Guest List 2019
Saturday 30 March Meridian Anna joins Chris & Richard to make up the full complement of song & dance deliciousness! 4pm Mel & Anne dance workshop Saturday 27 April Gelée de Groseilles Duo Jean-Claude et Sabine, from Bar le Duc, Lorraine, habitués of the Peut Qu'Manquer festival, make their first visit to UK + an afternoon dance workshop. Saturday 25 May Pirlouette Gorgeous group from Lille make a return visit too ... it'll be as if Brexit never happened! (Max & Sussex Knucker will reschedule next year) Saturday 6 July Bastille Bal Our homage to the French Fête Nationale, just before we get our visas to dance on the Near European shores for the summer festivals. Saturday 28 September Ça Ribote Julian Burton's band from Brittany, returning to Sussex for a dancey weekend (there's a Friday UnReel ceilidh too) Saturday 26 October Peut Qu'Manquer Nos Amis d' Amiens and all their crew, for a lovely weekend of music (more details later) Saturday 30 November TONIK Sussex's very own original French dance band... |
Patcham Memorial Hall
3 Old London Road Brighton BN1 8XR Fabulous polished wooden ballroom floor, just perfect for French dancing! We're just off the A23 as you enter Brighton, near the junction with A27. Old London Rd, behind Esso garage, near the Miller & Carter steakhouse.. Bus no 5 and 5A stop outside, Preston Park station is 15 mins walk south. Here's a link to PMH website with a map 
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Some of Jeudi Matin playing with Peut Qu'Manquer from the Amiens weekend
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... et en plus!TONIK
Saturday 9 March dances from Brittany, central & southwest France Ringmer Village Hall BN8 5QH 8pm. £7 www.tonikdanceband.uk Blowzabella
and their guests Smitlap (from Cassel, France) Saturday 15 June Adastra Hall, Hassocks Further details in the pipeline 'Sister' French clubs
LONDON: Second Friday monthly On Bouge dance club Primrose Hill Community Centre 29 Hopkinson’s Place London NW1 8TN Doors: 7:30pm £7 (£6 concs) Tube Chalk Farm or Camden Town Map: http://g.co/maps/ta6nf For more information email Chris Shaw on info@onbouge.org KENT: Third Sunday monthly Les Batons dance club a Bal with Les Batons band & others. 1pm until 5pm. £5 & EUROBASH! More information email Les Batons Hollingbourne Village KENT ME17 1TR 
Brighton & Hove French Circle - talks and conversations. Click on the image above to get to the programme for the year.
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