John Brown Friday 27 January 2012 
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Ceilidh Calling - About me
IVFDF 2003

I'm a established ceilidh caller, working out of Sheffield. I got into calling through Sheffield Ceilidhsoc and I've been calling for Ceilidhsoc and for others ever since. These days I call at a variety of events, from small private functions, to regular ceilidh Series and folk festivals. If you are thinking of organising a Ceilidh (for a Wedding or Party etc) I can normally arrange a band for you (calling@ceilidhcalling.co.uk).

I've had the pleasure of working with a number of great bands over the last few years, Jabadaw, Gloworms, Trinculo, Derwenna, Pepper in the Brandy, This way up, Whapweasel, Random, Mawkin, Boldwood, Monsieur Pantin, The John Dipper Band.

About this site

The main use of this site is to serve as a useful collection of usable dances and calling resources. When I first started calling I tried searching the web for stuff I could use, and while there were quite a few good resources out there, a lot of the material out there was terrible (un-danceable dances etc). So after being persuaded that I needed a website I thought a bit about what contents I should put up , after all bands can put up mp3's of their tunes, but an mp3 of me calling would be a tad daft ("right hand star etc"). After some thinking I decided that I should put up the kind of content I was after when I was looking for calling resources. Thus the site you see before you was born, it is my hope for this site that other people will provide dances and suitable calling material and that it becomes more of a community effort, rather than just my site.

With the idea of seeking out site contributions, I've created a system whereby callers can create themselves a login to this site, and then add dances, notes about dances, tunes that work well with different dances etc. Over time I might even add some form of discussion forum to the site. Of course I would also welcome any suggestions of other information that should become part of the site.

Nice things people have said...

"Brilliant first night of the season last night with Derwenna and John Brown calling plus a great audience. If you get a chance to dance to Derwenna - do it! They were fabulous - so much energy, great tunes, great playing and John matched the tunes with great dances."
Pete Coe

"Absolutely fabulous. We definitely want you back again next season. Superb!"
Alice Jones Ryburn 3step

Contact details
About the site website@ceilidhcalling.co.uk

Booking Details

E-Mail address calling@ceilidhcalling.co.uk
Telephone number 07017418950

News
Date Details
14/10/2010
Title : Calling Workshop
I'm running another calling workshop for ceilidhsoc, and others wishing to attend. It's starts at 7:00pm at The Edge (see http://www.ceilidhsoc.org/map.html?location=edge) on the 29th Oct
26/04/2009
Title : Callers Wiorkshop
I'll be leading a calling workshop with Sheffield CeilidhSoc on the 1st May 2009. It starts at 7:30 it is in Loxley's at Sheffield University (see http://www.ceilidhsoc.org for details). The workshop will be 1 hour long before the ceilidh, then for those who wish you will be able to call a dance or two during the ceilidh. Also for those who wish I can provide a bit of feedback, about the calling.
06/01/2009
Title : Bellowhead come to Sheffield
Bellowhead are playing Sheffield on the 20th of Feb. It's at the Sheffield Students Union (in the Foundry) but it's open to all and tickets are now on sale.
28/07/2008
Title : Sidmouth
I'm off to Sidmouth once again. If anybody wants to catch me calling I will be in the Anchor gardens Monday afternoon.
12/03/2006
Title : Site Moved
You may have noticed that I've not being doing too many changes to the site of late. This is because I've been moving the site to a new hosted server I bought. As of today the site has moved so I should be back to doing updates again.
25/04/2005
Title : More dances
I've added some more dances to the site. Mary pantons strip, Chancellors farewell, Yarmouth long dance, Mason and dixy line, The new Mrs Arrowsmith, Trip to bamford, Dashing white sargent.
18/03/2005
Title : Site updates
I've added a new documents section to the site, at the moment it only contains one document which is a guide to calling. I hope to add other documents to this section as time goes on.
12/02/2005
Title : Web server problems
Due to a small problem with the web server this site normally runs on, the site vanished for a few hours. When it came backup the part of the site that provides a book of dances did'nt work. It is however now all fixed and to those who tried to download the book sorry, try again.
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