Scottish ceilidh dances
We move on to Scottish ceilidh music for our next two events. We are playing for the Dulwich Ghillies Ball (this our 18th year!) on 13 January 2018 at All… Read more »
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TV programme on Sky Arts
Our music features in a documentary “I hate Jane Austen” on Sky Arts channel on 12 December at 9pm. Featuring Giles Coren – will his mind be changed and he… Read more »
Mistletoe Masked Regency Ball
Mrs Bennet’s Ballroom hosted a Mistletoe Masked Regency Ball on Saturday 2nd December 2017 at The Normansfield Theatre, Teddington, London. This was a Regency ball with a Christmas theme of… Read more »
New Recording – La Rose
We have another new recording, this is for the cotillion “La Rose” which was danced at the recent Hampshire Regency Dancers’ Ball in July 2017. The dance is 16 bar… Read more »
New Recording – The Haydn
This dance is from Joseph Dale’s collection of 1797 and uses a theme from Haydn’s “Creation”. Our recording is available as an MP3 download.
New recording – The Salamanca Castanets
We have added a new recording of The Salamanca Castanets from Button and Whitaker’s 24 Country Dances for the year 1813. Buy this here
A Ball for Jane Austen 2017
This year the Hampshire Regency Dancers hosted a ball on July 29th 2017 at Winchester Guildhall along with a series of other events to commemorate Jane Austen on the 200th… Read more »
Jane Austen Festival Summer Ball 2017
We played again for the Jane Austen Summer Festival Ball which took place in the Bath Guildhall on Saturday 1st July 2017 and celebrated the publication anniversary of Northanger Abbey… Read more »
BBC Ball at Rownhams House
We played for a recent Ball in June at Rownhams House which will form part of a BBC programme about Jane Austen. See videos taken at the Ball on our… Read more »
New Recording for June 2017!
We have produced a CD of Six Regency dances which are from the Jane Austen Festival Summer Ball 2017 at the Bath Guildhall. Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the publication… Read more »