Island Dance

Newsy stuff

- Morris dance merry making, May Day, 01 May 2012. Clover Point, Victoria. 0530-0630. Yes, 5:30 a.m. After all we need to be dancing before the sun rises at 0553! May pole, circle and other dances. Come along. See the Morris section and/or Ric's left coast Morris May Day page

- A new to us Old Time/Fiddle dance series in Coombs/Qualicum Beach area. Now listed in Old Time & Barn dance. Several new dance forms or events updated - See Uncategorised and others

- VicECD has a new June Dance Party posted on their site, Mayne Is. has their ECD ball posted for June. A new ECD dance music CD is in the offing from The Dancehall Players

- Rumbles of eCeilidh start ups -- English Ceildih. Yes, it's a bastardised term, however communicates the energy and knees-up feel of this approach to traditional English dances, and those written in the spirit-of

- Island Dance lives! The change of Internet Service Providers appears to have been successful. Please update any links of http://www3.telus.net/island_dance/ to the current one of http://members.shaw.ca/island.dance/

- Now would seem to be a useful time for an owned domain name (i.e. http://island.dance.ca/ or http://vislanddance.ca/  Preferences?)
Have you some small $ contribution to help house the site? Please get in touch.

- Please send your dance event & activity information! A big thank you to folks submitting information, tell your friends, heck tell the others as well

What's all this?

A Folk and Country Dance site for Dancers, Dance Groups, Callers, Musicians, Organisers, and the like, on Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and other islands in or near Southern British Columbia. Some Lower Mainland, regional and BC information or connections will be presented as well, for Islanders that have not ventured further afield on the web.

For those with web presence, this site is a node which may help folks to find you. For those without, the Island Dance web site may be a place to post a simple entry or list page with some information about your group, calendar, etc. From it people may find said information, contact you, find your photos hosted somewhere else, you name it. Whatever helps connect the Folk and Country dance community on the Island(s)

Please see the About page for more background or rationale. Many pages now active, some need info, please submit it and send updates for existing entries.