Saturday 9 Dec – details:
2023 Harwell & Abingdon Ball

This year it is the Abingdon Club’s turn to run the Ball.

It will be on Saturday 3 December in the Old Mill Hall, Grove, OX12 7LB.

Further details on the Abingdon Club’s Events page.

We will be working through all the Ball dances at our Wednesday afternoon Tea Dances (2pm-4.30pm in Chilton Village Hall) on 19 October and 16 November.

Please note that in order to avoid following the dog show into the hall, we are delaying our 2020 ball by a week. Same venue (Old Mill Hall, Grove), same band (Cragellachie), same catering (Grove WI) but the date is now Saturday 12 December 2020.

This year’s ball is being organized by the Abingdon SCDC on Saturday 7th December.

Full details are available on the AbingdonSCDC web site.

We will be holding an ‘anticipation’ dance the previous Sunday – 1st December, 2pm to 5pm – at:

Wootton & Dry Sandford Community Centre
Lamborough Hill, Wootton OX13 6DA
Tickets £5.00, pay on the door

Dances will be chosen from the Ball programme (below).

For this anticipation afternoon we will walk through and then dance those not ‘struck through’ below. The choice may change on the day! We can’t guarantee what order they will be danced in either!

You can anticipate the dances being walked through and then danced to recordings.

1. Mrs Stewart’s Jig                   
2. The Lochalsh Reel          
3. The Garry Strathspey
4. Midnight Oil
5. Bouncing Braids
6. Wells House
7. Macleod’s Fancy
8. Nottingham Lace
9. Bruce’s Men
10. The Zoologist
11. Ramadan-ce
12. The Sailor
13. The Raven’s Dance
14. Hillcrest’s Ruby Gem
15. Shiftin’ Bobbins
16. The Wee Cooper O’ Fife
17. Midsummer Common
18. The Recumbent Stone
19. Jennifer’s Jig
20. City of Belfast
21. J. B. Milne
22. Ian Powrie’s Farewell to Auchterarder

This year, the Ball (on Saturday 7 December) is being organized by the Abingdon SCDC, see their web site for the full details.