Weymouth dancers invited to showcase their dancing through the Wessex Folk Festival

As I wandered around Weymouth's Hope Square at the Wessex Folk Festival, I was struck by the number of dance forms that were showcased at this popular June festival and how greatly they were appreciated by the passing public.

Perhaps the dancing that drew the largest crowds was Stampede Appalachian clog dancers. They were positioned slightly further down than the traders stalls on Trinity Road on Weymouth's harbour side and they were so popular that sometimes it was almost impossible to get past them as I buzzed around trying to see everything.

The Stampede Appalachian clog dancers were collecting money for worthy cause Claire Lemmon Fund, as you might just be able to see from their sign. The Claire Lemmon Fund is a Dorset charity to raise money to provide for local children affected by cancer and give them the chance to go on holidays, day trips and to provide them with some luxuries.

The fund has also started to provide the Kingfisher Ward at Dorset County Hospital with vital equipment and furniture for the teenage room because local children with cancer go there if they become ill between treatments.

Stampede is a very popular band and dance group around Weymouth and Dorset and gives a great show to onlookers who I noticed were more than happy to contribute when they passed the bucket around collecting for the Claire Lemmon Fund.

The Wessex Folk Festival is a wonderful opportunity for showcasing dancers and giving them the oxygen of publicity. If you are involved in dance or dancing in Weymouth or Dorset and would like to tell people about your dance form, the Wessex Folk Festival, or even this blog, could be a great opportunity for marketing your dancing.

Feel free to comment at the foot of this post and tell us (and everybody else that loves the Wessex Folk Festival) about your dance school, dance group, dance troupe, dance lessons, dance side or whatever.

If you have a web site or blog for your dancing school, dancing group, dancing troupe, dancing lessons or other dancing activity, perhaps it would be a great opportunity to link or even run a featuring article here.

More dancing and dancers featured here soon :-)

Bye for now

Rob

Rob (Two Left Feet) Hopcott