The festival with dance at its heart!
Ceilidhs, workshops, dance shows & more… pack your dancing shoes because you’re going to need them!
We always have an incredible line up in the Hobsons Dance Tent, located right in the heart of the festival site, so come and join the fun.
Watch the dance teams perform, bring your friends or make new ones in any one of our many social ceilidhs and dances, hone your skills in our dance workshops or watch the mischief and mayhem of the morris and dance teams in their annual get together.
For more about our morris and dance team programme including dance workshops, click here.
2026 Dance Bands and Shows
2026 Dance Tent Programme
Friday
15:15-17:15 Powerhouse Ceilidh Band – caller John Brown
18:30-20:30 One Night String Band (Contra) – caller Charlie Turner
19:15-19:30 Display: JD & Folk
20:30-20:50 Display: Belle D’Vain
21:00-23:45 Relentless Ceilidh Band’s 10th Anniversary Ceilidh – caller Sheena Masson
22:15-22:30 Display: Shropshire Bedlams & Martha Rhoden’s Tuppenny Dish
Saturday
11:30-13:00 Bailey & Keely (EuroBal) – caller Lisa Heywood
14:00-16:00 Bhangra Ceilidh – caller Lisa Heywood
17:00-18:00 Kekezza Cornish Dance Show
19:30-21:15 Topette!! (EuroBal) – dance leaders Kerry Fletcher & Chris Walshaw
21:15-21:25 Display: Boggart’s Breakfast
21:30-23:15 Hekety (Ceilidh) – caller Gordon Potts
22:15-22:25 Display: Five Rivers Morris
23:15-00:45 David Eagle Folk Disco DJ Set
This year’s Saturday night fancy dress theme is Greek mythology.
Sunday
11:30-13:30 Emily & The Simons (EuroBal) – dance leaders Kerry Fletcher & Chris Walshaw
14:30-16:00 Northumbrian Ceilidh with Northern Nancy
16:45-18:00 Dance Party hosted by JD & Folk
19:30-21:45 Blowzabella (EuroBal)
21:45-22:00 Display: Five Rivers Morris
22:00-00:45 Brown Boots Boogie Band (Ceilidh) – caller Erin Mansfield
23:10-23:20 Display: Wakefield Morris
Monday
12:00-14:30 Folk Camps Party Band (Ceilidh) – caller Phil Bassindale
13:00-13:10 Display: Summertown Morris
Photos: Bob Machin, John Hooper, Mike Dean, Richard Hammerton, Steve Lacey & Steve Oliver.