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Events

Here you can find information about all the exciting Folk Society events coming up in the near future.
 

 

Ceilidh

Our next ceilidh will be on Saturday 6th February from 7pm in the DSU Riverside Café. Please click here for more information about our ceilidhs.

Rapper Crawl

Our next rapper crawl is on Thursday 3rd December, commencing at 7pm at The Bridge. Photos from the last crawl can be found here.

Inter-Varsity Folk Dance Festival

Next year, IVFDF will be held by the Folk Society here in Durham, from Friday 5th through to Sunday 7th March. It will be a fun-filled weekend of ceilidhs, concerts, workshops, rapper dancing and sessions, and probably lots of drinking. If you're interested in getting involved with organising and running the festival, please get in touch. Click here find out more about IVFDF and here to go to the main IVFDF website. The IVFDF 2010 website will be online shortly.

Concerts

We are looking to start putting on regular Folk Society concerts, possibly termly. Please watch this space.

May Day

Join us on 1st May at 05:15am on Prebends Bridge to see the sunrise, and for lots of folky fun. There will be a music, morris dancing, coffee and a barbecue. If you'd like to be part of the morris side, please contact us for more information. Please click here to learn more about the event.

Festivals

The Folk Society organises trips to some of the best folk festivals around. For the last couple of years, Bromyard in Herefordshire has been our festival of choice due to its amazing student discount on ticket prices. Here are some photos from past festivals.
Bromyard 2008
Bromyard 2007

 
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