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Meryl and Ian have recorded an album of dances called Queen Charlotte’s Birthday Balls 1762-1802. This is in collaboration with Jorien Van den Bor and Paul Cooper. To read more… Read more »

Meryl and Ian have recorded a single track – The New Rigg’d Ship. This dance appears in numerous dance collections from 1792-1825, all to the same tune. To listen or… Read more »

Meryl and Ian have recorded the country dance “The British Heroes” to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day in 2025.  Find the recording on our bandcamp page

Our Duke of Kent’s Waltz recording was used in the BBC Doctor Who episode “Rogue” for a quadrille choreographed by Jack Murphy. This track is an edited 4×32 version using… Read more »

Ian and Meryl have produced an album of country dances with links to Jane Austen, her life and literary works. Dances on the album are suitable for historical country dancing… Read more »

Ian and Meryl have recorded a set of Irish quadrilles called The Royal Hibernian Quadrilles by Charles T Sykes.  King George IV visited Ireland in 1821 and this set of… Read more »

Meryl and Ian have recorded an album of dances to commemorate the Paris Olympics in 2024. The album has music for country dances dating from between 1740 and 1818.  We… Read more »

Our music was used on the BBC TV programme Dr Who S1 episode 6 “Rogue” on June 8, 2024 during two dance scenes at the ball. The music was Duke… Read more »

Music from our album “Dances for a Princess” from the collection written by Ignatius Sancho was recently featured in a podcast about Sancho, Equiano and Barber by Jonathan Goddard.  Listen… Read more »