Zoom Ceilidh with Frog on a Bike + Fee Lock - BunkFest Special
Fri 4 Sep 2020 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM BST
Online, Zoom
Description
We're back with a fun ceilidh you can enjoy from home. This is a special event to support our friends at Wallingford BunkFest - Oxfolk will donate the profits from this ceilidh to BunkFest, to help make sure this wonderful festival happens again next year.
Gather your household together in your kitchen, living room, garden, wherever there is room, to enjoy the fantastic music of Frog on a Bike. The fabulous Fee Lock is our caller, and will be adapting dances for couples, small groups and solo dancers. Fee always explains the dance moves clearly, whilst simultaneously channelling rock goddess class in a cut-glass accent!
Frog on a Bike is coming to you live from Cambridgeshire. They're rooted in English folk music, but you’ll also hear lots of tunes written by the band. Featuring lively melodeon, recorder and strings, their acoustic “two households only” line-up is still a big sound guaranteed to getyou up and dancing. They are
- Tom on melodeon. He is lead musician with the morris side Chiltern Hundreds and has many times been Whitlesey's Straw Bear (just you ask him, he'll tell you all about it)
- Sarah on recorders is also the lead musician for Rockingham Rapper, and can play Speed the Plough in 17.5 seconds – with an award from Whitby Folk Week to prove it!
- Tim plays fiddle and other stringed instruments. He has played previously for Cambridge University Ceilidh Band, is a well-versed morris musician and dancer and also makes violins.
Half time entertainment comes from Wallingford residents and Albert, Evelyn, Nina and Aidan Hansell. Between them all they comprise members of local morris side and BunkFest regulars, Old Speckled Hen, as well the prestigious National Youth Folklore Troupe of England, and supergroup ceilidh band PolkaWorks.
Oxfolk's online ceilidhs are great fun for people of all ages and we love to see the inventive and joyous dancing that families, groups of housemates, solo dancers and couples come up with.
This event is held in association with Folk Weekend Oxford
This event will take place LIVE in Zoom.
Details of how to access the event will be in your ticket confirmation. Please make sure you check your spam or junk email folders if you don't receive it straight away.
Ticketing
We are offering three ticket types for this even
- Standard ticket is the ‘normal’ price that we would charge for the event
- Pay a bit more is for those who can afford to, and would like to help support live music and our artists
- Pay a bit less is for those who would find the standard ticket a bit of a stretch, for whatever reason.
You can purchase whichever ticket you like; you don’t need to give a reason, and you won’t be asked for any proof of need. For online events you only need to purchase one ticket per household/computer.
We are trialling this ticket system to help make our events more accessible to more people, and to allow those who would happily pay a bit more to do so easily, helping us to subsidise tickets for those who can’t afford them.