Our Have-a-Go session in Chester
also gives people a chance to learn dance tunes, many of which are played in sessions (in fact we've just rejected one dance that a caller wanted because it had a tune that no-one was likely to meet again except in a Country Dance Club). Marilyn leads the tunes slowly a few times to give people the feel of them, then after the walk-through we play them at dance speed. Meeting This Thurs.

I am very grateful to all the musicians who encouraged us to learn the tunes. Ollie who started a "let's all get the David Oliver book and play before the folk club" session in Beverley. George Garside and his slow sessions at Whitby festival (and May Cheadle with her even slower session when I started on a new instrument), the Lewes crowd at Chippenham, and the Lancashire band workshop .

Good to know that it's going on all over the country.