Not to be missed: Scotland's European Traditional Dance Day!

Learn trad dances from 5 different European countries & make friends!

📅Sun, 2 Nov 14:00 - 17:00
📍Jordanhill Parish Church, 28 Woodend Drive, Glasgow G13 1QT
🎟️FREE but booking required👉 www.eventbrite.com/e/european-t...

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Our Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 show is now on sale!

Sequins - a solo show fusing fun folk and hip hop dance with funky rhythms and rhymes, feat/ Kalubi Mukengela-Jacoby & Ian McMillan!

📅20 & 21 Aug 7pm
📍#edfringe Venue 446: Edinburgh College PASS Theatre
🎟️£12 (£9): www.tdfs.org/sequins/

Our new e-newsletter just dropped into 800+ subscribers' inboxes. It includes an exclusive streaming of 'The Bright Fabric of Life' - 1 of 10 trad dance films we selected for the opening night of our Pomegranates Festival this year.

Sign up here: www.tdfs.org/newsletter/ to view the full film.

Delighted to announce a one-off mashup featuring the super bands Samodiva Nestya & Garúa Tango Club

🎶 World Trad Dance Music from Scotland, Argentina and the Balkans
📅 7 June 2025, 20:00-23:00
📍 King's Hall, Edinburgh
🎟️ Tickets from £10
🚩 Book here: www.tdfs.org

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"Yet another incredible festival in Edinburgh! It was fabulous!"
🫶Tnx to all our audiences for joining us at this year's Pomegranates.
👍to the RSCDS team for the fab display at our festival event: Scotland's 1st trad dance gathering a/ UNESCO Convention f/ Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage.

"This year’s Pomegranates Festival was superb - the mask-centred theme gave it a special dynamic and coherence, utilising diverse traditional dance forms, as well as to the workshops, debates and the performance pieces. It was simply the best Pomegranates yet!"

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#DYK that our first Pomegranates Festival in 2022 was part of Edinburgh Tradfest? This year, we continue our partnership by extending the run of our Pomegranates Festival exhibition Masks as part of Tradfest until 12 May - free & open to all @ScottishStorytellingCentre: www.tdfs.org/pomegranates

It's a wrap, folks! Pomegranates Festival 2025 concluded on #internationaldanceday w/ an amazing double bill of 'Sequins' & 'Hidden Faces' @scottishstorytellingcentre. Today, we are grateful 🙏 to every one of you who helped make this possible.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts 💕 See you soon!

Here's a video of the amazing show @jonzid choreographed for us last year, edited by our very own #zzhongxiaoxuan

Come and see the new performance, 'Hidden Faces' (with masks by #rainemakerstudio) on 29th April, 6.30pm at the @scottishstorytellingcentre

Tickets and info:
www.tdfs.org/pomegranates

So chuffed to be bringing you the preview of ‘not for glory’ - a dance-theatre gig by Jack Anderson & Charlotte Mclean in collaboration w/ Malin Lewis. Curated as part of our Pomegranates Festival in partnership w/ Dance Base &The Work Room!

27 Apr 18:30 | Dance Base: www.tdfs.org/pomegranates

Tony Chen will be performing at our show 'Hidden Faces', a new hip hop dance theatre production by Jonzi D. Here, Tony is wearing a Chinese folk dance costume &
a mask by Lorraine Pritchard, our artist-in-residence whose solo exhibition will be at❤️of the festival! Book now: www.tdfs.org/pomegranates

Less than 2 weeks to go and 190+ of you interested in joining us for our first Ceilidh Plus for 2025!

Fair to say, we don't have the capacity for all 190+ of you, so please ensure you grab your tickets, inc a few remaining group discounts asap.

Book now at www.tdfs.org/ceilidhplus

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Happy International Women's Day🎉

Celebrate it w/ the latest episode 🎧 of our Trad Dance Cast.

Tune in to hear Alena Shmakova as she uncovers Mary, Queen of Scots’ passion for dance + the herstory of Sophia Parker known for her 'Scotch dancing'

Listen now👉https://www.tdfs.org/trad-dance-cast/

Ceilidh Plus 🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇧🇬

21 March 2025 6.30pm

Tickets from £9

Book now www.tdfs.org/ceilidhplus

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You can see Chris perform as part of his band Blue Giant Orkestar (pictured above with Chris on the accordion or below on the fiddle at our last Ceilidh Plus in December 2025) during their gig run later this month in Glasgow, Peebles and Dunkeld!

Can't wait for our next Ceilidh Plus on 21 March 2025, so that you can dance to tunes from Scotland, Ireland + Bulgaria, plus enjoy the live music of our super band led by the multi-instrumentalist Chris Lyons - the Irish Scot and self-confessed Bulgarian folk music nerd!

Looking for an extraordinary #ValentinesDaygift? Grab one of our #CeilidhPlus tickets for yourself and your Plus One + save 20% on the full-price entry! Browse our Ceilidh Plus events in the next few months, already open for #booking, such as our Ceilidh Plus on 21 March: www.tdfs.org/ceilidhplus/

Missing your ceilidhs due to the Red Weather Alert today? Find out all about our Ceilidh Plus series JUST published on our website www.tdfs.org/ceilidhplus/ where you can book your tix for our next joyous evening of social dancing to live music f/ Scotland, but also from Ireland & Bulgaria. Plus...