Charlie Turner Dance List

November 4, 2025

  • Mendocino Redwoods — Mary Devlin, Bob Fraley & Elizabeth Zekley 2005 – Tune Woodland Walk by Jonathan Jensen 2005 — Bare Necessities, Mrs Beveridge’s Triumph
  • An Enchanted Place — Antony Heywood 1990 — Tune Planxty Hewlett by Turlough O’Carolan (1670–1738) – The Assembly Players, Old World New Dances
  • Quay to my Heart — Jenna Simpson 2021 — Tunes Nancy Dawson’s Fancy (Thompson’s Compleat Collection of Country Dances 1765) / Burlington Quay (Trad.) – Boldwood, Mudlarking demo 2012
  • Orange Nan — Walsh, Twenty-four Country Dances for the year 1713 — Interpreted by Andrew Shaw 2002 – Belshazzar’s Feast, Mr Kynaston’s Famous Dance
  • Shepherd and Shepherdess — Johnson Volume 8, 1758 — Interpreted by Bernie Culkin and Colin Hume – Boldwood, Feet Don’t Fail Me Now
  • Alice – Philippe Callens 2002 — Tune Siciliano by Telemann — Bare Necessities, Mrs. Beveridge’s Triumph
  • Break music: Gramophone Dancing — Jez Lowe and The Bad Pennies, Wotcheor! 2023
  • Final Waltz (actually, a mazurka): Violet Sky by Lewis Wood 2023 — Helen Gentile and Lewis Wood, Violet Sky 2024 https://gentileandwood.bandcamp.com/album/violet-sky

 

July 29, 2025

  • Barham Down — Dancing Master 1701 — interpreted by Graham Foster 1985, modified for Zoom by Daisy Black 2021 — Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer, recorded at Stonesfield March 2020
  • Helena —  Colin Hume 1988 – Tune by Colin Hume 1988 — The Rampions, Dances with a Difference 3
  • Love in a Hop-Yard – Kyanston, Twenty Four Dances for the Year 1717– interpreted by Andrew Shaw 2006 — Warleggan Village Band, OLD ROGER: the NEW WAY
  • Trip to Greene — Gary Roodman 1992 — Tune Petticoat Wag (published in Playford 1st ed) — Bare Necessities, Fast Friends
  • Candles in the Dark – Loretta Holz 2006 – Tune by Jonathan Jensen – Folkus Pocus, Out of the Hat
  • Softly Good Tummas — Kynaston 1718 — reconstructed Andrew Shaw, The She Favourite, 2002 — Belshazzar’s Feast, Mr. Kynaston’s Famous Dance
  • Break Music: Turlutte / Black Rock – Keith Murphy and Becky Tracy, Golden
    Final Waltz: Vals efter Blecko (trad. Orsa) – Emma Reid and Ellika Frisell, Väder

 

April 29, 2025

  • Fourpence Ha’penny Farthing — John Young 1709 — Bare Necessities, Mrs. Beveridge’s Triumph
  • An Enchanted Place — Antony Heywood 1990 — Tune Planxty Hewlett by Turlough O’Carolan (1670–1738) – The Assembly Players, Old World New Dances
  • A Trip to Kilburn — Dancing Master II and Walsh 1719 – 1755 — interpreted by Sharp 1916 — Tune Black and Grey — Gadarene, Butchers of Bristol
  • Mrs. Savage’s Whim — Dancing Master Vol 2, 1710 — Reconstructed by Bernard Bentley in Fallibroome — Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer, recorded at Symmetry 10 October 2023
  • Alice – Philippe Callens 2002 — Tune Siciliano by Telemann — Bare Necessities, Mrs. Beveridge’s Triumph
  • Kelsterne Gardens — Playford 1727 — Purcell’s Polyphonic Party, An Invitation to Dance
  • Break music: Green & Pleasant Land — Alex Cumming, Homecoming
  • Final Waltz: At the Brow of the Hill – Boldwood, Boldwood EP live at Nailsworth

 

December 17, 2024

  • Kelsterne Gardens – Dancing Master 1727 – Purcell’s Polyphonic Party, An Invitation to Dance
  • Candles in the Dark – Loretta Holz 2006 – Tune by Jonathan Jensen – Folkus Pocus, Out of the Hat
  • Shepherd and Shepherdess — Johnson Volume 8, 1758 — Interpreted by Bernie Culkin and Colin Hume – Boldwood, Feet Don’t Fail Me Now
  • Mr Cosgill’s Delight — Young 1728 — Interpreted by Douglas and Helen Kennedy 1929 — Momentum, Interesting Times
  • Mad Moll — Dancing Master 9th Edition 1695 — Reconstructed by Colin Hume, 2007 –- Adapted by Daisy Black, 2021 – Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer, recorded at Symmetry 10 October 2023
  • Alice – Philippe Callens 2002 –  Tune Siciliano by Telemann — Bare Necessities, Mrs. Beveridge’s Triumph
  • Break music: Transatlantic Groove – Trio Dhoore,  Momentum
  • Final Waltz: Over The Lake – StringFire! Spindriftin’

 

September 24, 2024

  • Fourpence Ha’penny Farthing — John Young 1709 — Bare Necessities, Mrs Beveridge’s Triumph
  • An Enchanted Place — Antony Heywood 1990 — Tune Planxty Hewlett by Turlough O’Carolan (1670–1738) – The Assembly Players, Old World New Dances
  • Trip to Greene — Gary Roodman 1992 — Tune Petticoat Wag (published in Playford 1st ed) — Bare Necessities, Fast Friends
  • Mr Cosgill’s Delight — Young 1728 — Interpreted by Douglas and Helen Kennedy 1929 — Momentum, Interesting Times
  • Leather Lake House — Henry Bishop in Six New Minuets and Twelve Country Dances, 1788 — Reconstructed by Fried de Metz Herman 1986 — Tunes Leather Lake House and Pease Strae — Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer, recorded at Symmetry 10 October 2023
  • Sapphire Sea — Christine Robb 2015 – Tune Tom Kruskal’s by Amelia Mason & Emily Troll – Elixir, Rampant
  • Break music: What Will We Do — Maivish, Sunlight into Blue
  • Final waltz: The Lovely Nymph 1801 — Boldwood, Feet, don’t fail me now

 

July 30, 2024

  • Shepherd and Shepherdess — Johnson Volume 8, 1758 – Interpreted by Bernie Culkin and Colin Hume –- Boldwood, Feet Don’t Fail Me Now, 2007
  • Enfield Common — Dancing Master 1701 — Interpreted by Philippe Callens 1999 — Tune Amphitryon by Purcell — Bare Necessities, Mrs Beveridge’s Triumph
  • Mad Moll — Dancing Master 9th Edition 1695 — Reconstructed by Colin Hume 2007 — Adapted by Daisy Black 2021 — Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer, recorded at Symmetry 10 October 2023
  • Quay to my Heart — Jenna Simpson 2021 — Tunes Nancy Dawson’s Fancy (Thompson’s Compleat Collection of Country Dances 1765) / Burlington Quay (Trad.) – Boldwood, Mudlarking demo 2012
  • Mooncoin — Louise Siddons and Rebekah Valencia, ~2020 — Tunes Mooncoin Reel / Fishers Hornpipe — Ellen Sheppard & Clare Davis, The Hammered Dulcimer in Fiddle Season 2019
  • Wild Boy — Robert Moir 2008 — Tune Wild Boy, attributed to Edward Bunting 1781 — Momentum, Interesting Times
  • Break music: Chaco Road — Stuart Kenney, Red Case
  • Final waltz: Weerzien / Lentewalsje –- Duo Gestrikt, Gestrikt

 

April 16, 2024

Live music by Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer

  • Barham Down — Dancing Master 1701 — interpreted by Graham Foster 1985, modified for Zoom by Daisy Black 2021
  • Wizard’s Walk — Ruth Ungar 1993 — Tune by Jay Ungar 1993
  • Mendocino Redwoods — Mary Devlin, Bob Fraley & Elizabeth Zekley 2005 — Tune Woodlands Walk by Jonathan Jensen 2005
  • An Enchanted Place — Antony Heywood 1990 — Tune Planxty Hewlett by Turlough O’Carolan (1670–1738)
  • Key to the Cellar — Jenny Beer 2004 — Tune Cam Ye O’er Fae France, trad.
  • Enfield Common — Dancing Master 1701 — interpreted by Philippe Callens 1999 — Tune Amphitryon by Purcell

 

October 10, 2023

Live music by Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer

  • Mad Moll — Dancing Master 9th Edition 1695 — Reconstructed by Colin Hume, 2007 –- Adapted by Daisy Black, 2021
  • Mrs Savage’s Whim — Dancing Master Vol 2, 1710 — Reconstructed by Bernard Bentley in Fallibroome
  • Monte Toyon Mist –Brooke Friendly and Chris Sackett in Impropriety IV, 2011 – Adapted by Louise Siddons 2021 – Tune by Steve Hunt 2010
  • Mary K – Gary Roodman in A Finite Set of Calculated Figures 2003 – Tune Scherzo in C minor by Dave Wiesler 2001
  • Leather Lake House — Henry Bishop in Six New Minuets and Twelve Country Dances, 1788 –Reconstructed by Fried de Metz Herman 1986
  • Break song: Paper of Pins – melody by Jonny Dyer, 15th century words
  • Final waltz: Poppy’s Present by Jonny Dyer

 

July 11, 2023

  • Kelsterne Gardens — Playford 1727 — Purcell’s Polyphonic Party, An Invitation to Dance
  • Colin’s Tambourine — Colin Hume 2001 — Dampier’s Round, Spring Blossom
  • Sapphire Sea — Christine Robb 2015 – Tune Tom Kruskal’s by Amelia Mason & Emily Troll – Elixir, Rampant
  • Break music: Le plus bel âge  by Melaine Favennec — Duo Tanghe Coudroy, Le plus bel âge
  • Mrs Savage’s Whim — Playford 1713 – Boldwood, Mudlarking demo
  • Mooncoin — Louise Siddons and Rebekah Valencia, ~2020 – Tunes Mooncoin Reel / Fishers Hornpipe — Ellen Sheppard & Clare Davis, The Hammered Dulcimer in Fiddle Season 2019
  • Mendocino Redwoods — Mary Devlin, Bob Fraley & Elizabeth Zekley 2005 – Tune Woodland Walk by Jonathan Jensen 2005 — Bare Necessities, Mrs Beveridge’s Triumph
  • Final waltz: Leroy’s by Larry Unger — The Night Before, Live: 100th Alcester Contra