Previous Events


2024 Mrs Macquarie’s Ball

Saturday 27th April 2024 – 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM at Don Moore Community Centre, Corner North Rocks Rd & Farnell Ave, Carlingford.

Supper break at 8pm

Music by Short Dented Potts

Regency or formal dress will be admired but is not a requirement.

Cost: $50 or $55 at door

Pay at any event before the ball or by direct debit

Registration can be paid

At any of our regular dances or

Direct deposit to
SYDNEY ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCERS INC
BSB: 062181
Account: 11131638
Please email david@the-pottery.org with detail of any bookings

Dance List

A Bit of What You Fancy or Drops of Brandy 2023

Grand March

Duvall Lancers (3 figures)

Port Jackson

Trip to Hartley

Hole in the Wall

March of the Three Kings

Newcastle

Karla’s Waltz
Break

La Georgina

Anniversary Waltz

White Cockade

Flowers of Edinburgh

Elizabeth

Salamanca Castanets

Mr Beveridge

2023 Winter Dream Ball

Saturday 3rd June 2023 – 6:30 PM to 10:30 PM at Ermington Community Centre, 6 River Road Ermington 2115.

Cost: $45 on or before 31 May. $50 at the door.

Pay at any event before the ball or by direct debit (See Membership page for banking details, Please email david@the-pottery.org with detail of any bookings).

2022

A Christmas Tea Dance

Saturday Nov 26. 2pm to 6pm at Concord Senior Citizens Centre 9-11 Wellbank Street, Concord.
$25 entry, cash or card
Dress in your Regency finery or Christmas regalia for High Tea and English Country Dancing to music from the band Friends of Jane

National Folk Festival 2022

The Sydney English Country Dancers performed four displays to music from the band Short Dented Potts. The display included an audience participation dance. The dances where:

  • Cottonwood
  • Twenty Year Waltz
  • Pride and Pregdous in 6ish minutes
    • Grimstock
    • Comical Fellow
    • Mr Beveridge Magot
  • Still Russian Around
  • Goodman of Cambridge

2019

National Folk Festival 2019

The Sydney English Country Dancers performed four displays to music from the band Short Dented Potts. The display included an audience participation dance. The dances where:

  • Alice (with umbrellas and gypsy)
  • Apley house (Duple minor) 
  • Turn of the Tide (Duple minor) 
  • Juniata (Duple minor) 
  • Gay Gaddabout (3 couples) 
  • Princess of Wales (Duple minor)