Chris Hamblin Caller :: Vivienne Hamblin
Twin Arts Barn Dance Band calls dances to traditional music, including reels, jigs, hornpipes, polkas, waltzes. Dances include Stately Dance Forms, Circles, Lines, Farandoles, Waltzes, Polkas and, if needed, some simple dances more aimed at children.
Special arrangements of "First Dances" can be made for Weddings with Country Dances.
Vivienne Hamblin :: Caller
Calls dances which come from the folk tradiition that aim to to celebrate community with the joy of dance. She is a choreographer and dance teacher and was the founding director of Dance People in Zimbabwe in 1989. In UK since 2002 she has been teaching dance in schools and more recently with "Moving Words" a project based at Chisenhale Dance Studio in Tower Hamlets.
Chris Hamblin :: Fiddle, Mandolin, & Bodhran
A fiddle player with a driving celtic style, who has featured as a soloist in Celtic Music Festivals throughout Italy, touring Switzerland, Spain with Gruppo Folkloriquo Whisky Trail, he even appeared as part of an art installation in Milan & Zurich.
Chris has created many scores and live performances for contemporary dance and in 1989 was a founder member in Zimbabwe of the Elastic Band, a band praised in the Harare International Festival of the Arts 2000 for their "devastating violin music!!". Since 2002 he has lived in St Leonards-on-Sea and has built a thriving music teaching practice there. Celtic String Band was formed in 2003 with Guitarist Adrian Underhill and he plays with The Good Squeeze and Irish music sessions at Royal Oak, Whatlington.
Twin Arts Barn Dance Band provides a small group of excellent musicians from the Hastings area who share a common repertory of tunes for dance, led by Chris Hamblin.
As performers, we aim to provide professional entertainers who will work to your agenda, rather than their own. Please call/email us with your event details :: date, time, venue, how many people, special requests, and we will get back to you with some ideas.
Tel :: +44(0)1424 421 372 or email chrishamblin@tiscali.co.uk
DATES FOR 2009 ::
Sat 4th July :: Private Event for www.barndance.co.uk near Sevenoaks, Kent (...." I have to say we had a blast!!! So much fun was had by all and Chris, Viv and the band were absolutely awesome.....a real triumph!" Peter)
Sat 12 Aug :: Private Event for www.barndance.co.uk near Tonbridge, Kent
Sat 12th September :: Private Event for www.barndance.co.uk near Guildford, Surrey
Prices (Autumn 2009)
Barn Dances, Ceilidhs, Country Dances
Caller/musician plus CDs & full sound system £295.00
Caller/musician plus musician and CDs & full sound system £435.00
Caller/musician, two other musicians & full sound system £585.00
(the most popular choice)
Caller/musician, three other musicians & full sound system £735.00
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