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HALSWAY Folk Camp Week
26th July – 2nd August 2008

Booking now open
Halsway Manor Society has taken the opportunity to offer a week’s folk activity based summer holiday available to residents in the Manor and with camping in the Water Gardens. Families welcome, regret no dogs or pets allowed.


Arrive Saturday 26th 4:00pm – leave after breakfast on Saturday 2nd

To download a booking form to fill in and send to us click here

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Staff: Bob Carter
Philip & Joyce Rowe

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We are delighted to welcome Bob & Jean Carter who are based in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire and have been involved in a variety of folk activities. Together they started the Heatherdene Folk Dance Club that has now been running in Harrogate for over twenty years and has become well known in the north for its Costume Balls. Jean plays keyboard and Bob calls the dances with Cobblers Wax Ceilidh band.

Bob is the Bagman for Great Yorkshire Morris and actively performs Cotswold Morris, Border, Rapper & Long sword dances. Bob firmly believes that Folk music and dancing should be fun and always favours the light-hearted approach. His humorous monologues in the after dancing sessions are well known in both Morris and Folk Camp circles.

Bob has been a successful leader of two Folk holiday weeks at Halsway Manor in 2004 & 2005.

Philip and Joyce Rowe have been making music together for almost nineteen years, appearing at dance clubs far and wide and many of the major UK dance festivals. Joyce plays fiddle, and was raised on folk dance music and folk camps, and loves to dance herself, particularly contras. Philip is also a musician and dancer from an early age, and has been the leader of Knotted Chord since founding it at Nottingham University in 1985. He runs a young musicians' ceilidh band called Rhubarb Sandwich and plays with a variety other bands on fiddle or accordion. Both have wide-ranging experience of folk dance music having played for ceilidhs, club dances, morris, clog, Appalachian and international dance. the rowes

Provisional Timetable

Daily Workshops - Mornings 9:30-12:30

Usually afternoons will be free for trips to the local countryside and attractions, in the hills or by the sea.

Dancing each evening normally between 8:00-11pm with song sessions in the lounge bar.

If we have families with young children then we shall adapt the flexible timetable to suit who comes on the holiday week.
Course Fees
En-suite £374 per per adult
Non En-suite £325 per adult
Camping: £230
Early bird discount £5 per person
for bookings received before 1 May 2008
Reduced rates for students and juniors on request
Deposit of £60.00 per person with booking form
We accept credit or debit cards for telephone bookings
Tel:  01984 618274  Fax: 01984 618324

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