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Meet one of our guides....

Jen Larner          

Born in Essex, Jen has lived in many areas of the country, with a very varied career, mostly in community work projects including running a year-long festival to celebrate John Skelton, setting up a dial-a-ride bus scheme, arranging work placements for students on vocational courses, being a warden at Quaker meeting houses and teaching Esperanto at evening class. 

Jen started doing international folk dancing in her 20's at a time when it was all very new.   She continued this 'circle' dancing wherever she moved to, loving the variety of music and the chance to try out dances from all over the world.  Liking the differences in the dances - from slower, meditative ones to fast and furious!   As a single person Jen appreciates the fact that you don't need a partner, and yet you are not dancing alone but in a supportive group.

Jen really enjoys  seeing people experience circle dancing, usually for the first time, and the process of their assimilating the steps through working as a group and building a sense of community, through laughter as we invent  'variations', and fun!   Jen relishes the challenge of adapting dances for those with more limited mobility, including those confined to chairs, and has done a lot of work in nursing and residential homes. It's very satisfying to see people who thought their dancing days were over moving to stimulating music.

The Holiday:

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Please call Willersley Castle Hotel on 01629 582270 for more information

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Hilary Herbert

Hilary Herbert has been dancing and calling for many years and greatly enjoys both activities. Having started calling at barn dances, PTAs etc in the late 70s, she is now well known nationally as a caller / teacher of a wide breadth of new and old dances in the Playford, Traditional English and American style, including ones of her own composition. She can also be persuaded, without much difficulty, to teach Running set and Sword. She is a regular performer on the English festival, week-end and evening dance circuits and has also ventured across the channel. Her patience and humour are well known throughout the country and she enjoys sharing her wealth of experience with others. She resides in north Lancashire, the county of her birth, and is looking forward to a week in neighbouring Cumbria.

The Holiday:

We want you to relax, socialise, enjoy your Country Dancing and the atmosphere of our Abbot Hall Hotel.  The itinerary for this holiday is intended to balance all of these aims.

The programme for your dancing holiday is planned to give you the maximum amount of dancing tuition, relaxed dancing and free time.

There will be interesting morning dance workshops, with free afternoons and evening of social dancing, so if you do have any particular technique you wish to explore you can ask Hilary for her expert help and advice.

Anyone, from enthusiastic novices to seasoned dancers, will be able to improve their fancy footwork on these fun and friendly Country Dancing holidays.

During the holiday, we will also offer optional local tours

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Please call Abbot Hall Hotel on 015395 32896 for more information

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John & Muriel Moffoot

John and Muriel Moffoot have led the Three Choirs Festival Breaks in 2016 at Gloucester and 2017 at Worcester, so leading the Festival break to Hereford this year will give then a ‘full set’. John and  Muriel are enthusiastic choristers themselves, singing in one choir and leading a community choir together, while Muriel also leads the choir at the local school. ‘The Three Choirs Festival gives our guests a chance to enjoy classic choral works sung by top quality choirs and soloists, whilst also sharing the fellowship of a Christian Guild Hotel holiday’.

The Holiday

The 2018 Three Choirs Festival is based in and around the magnificent Hereford Cathedral, home to the Mappa Mundi.We will visit Hereford three times during the break. Our first visit will be to the Sunday morning Service in the Cathedral. On Tuesday evening we will return to the Cathedral to hear the combined cathedral choirs singing Monteverdi’s Vespers. Then on Thursday evening we will enjoy a concert marking the centenary of the death of Hubert Parry, with Sir Andrew Davis conducting. Some guests may make arrangements to attend other events in and around the Festival city themselves, while the rest of us enjoy the unique atmosphere and surroundings of the beautiful Lindors Country House Hotel, with plenty of time to explore some local sights and sample regional tastes. Full details of the Festival are available at http://www.3choirs.org/

For further information please telephone Lindors Country House Hotel on 01594 530283.

Meet one of our guides....

Hilary Herbert

Hilary Herbert has been dancing and calling for many years and greatly enjoys both activities. Having started calling at barn dances, PTAs etc in the late 70s, she is now well known nationally as a caller / teacher of a wide breadth of new and old dances in the Playford, Traditional English and American style, including ones of her own composition. She can also be persuaded, without much difficulty, to teach Running set and Sword. She is a regular performer on the English festival, week-end and evening dance circuits and has also ventured across the channel. Her patience and humour are well known throughout the country and she enjoys sharing her wealth of experience with others. She resides in north Lancashire, the county of her birth, and is looking forward to a week in neighbouring Cumbria

The Holiday

We want you to relax, socialise, enjoy your Country Dancing and the atmosphere of our Abbot Hall Hotel.  The itinerary for this holiday is intended to balance all of these aims.

The programme for your dancing holiday is planned to give you the maximum amount of dancing tuition, relaxed dancing and free time.

There will be interesting morning dance workshops, with free afternoons and evening of social dancing, so if you do have any particular technique you wish to explore you can ask Ron for his expert help and advice.

Anyone, from enthusiastic novices to seasoned dancers, will be able to improve their fancy footwork on these fun and friendly Country Dancing holidays.

During the holiday, we will also offer optional local tours.

Coming Soon

Please call Willersley Castle Hotel on 01629 582270 for more information

Meet one of our guides....

Hilary Herbert

Hilary Herbert has been dancing and calling for many years and greatly enjoys both activities. Having started calling at barn dances, PTAs etc in the late 70s, she is now well known nationally as a caller / teacher of a wide breadth of new and old dances in the Playford, Traditional English and American style, including ones of her own composition. She can also be persuaded, without much difficulty, to teach Running set and Sword. She is a regular performer on the English festival, week-end and evening dance circuits and has also ventured across the channel. Her patience and humour are well known throughout the country and she enjoys sharing her wealth of experience with others. She resides in north Lancashire, the county of her birth, and is looking forward to a week in neighbouring Cumbria

The Holiday

We want you to relax, socialise, enjoy your Country Dancing and the atmosphere of our Abbot Hall Hotel.  The itinerary for this holiday is intended to balance all of these aims.

The programme for your dancing holiday is planned to give you the maximum amount of dancing tuition, relaxed dancing and free time.

There will be interesting morning dance workshops, with free afternoons and evening of social dancing, so if you do have any particular technique you wish to explore you can ask Ron for his expert help and advice.

Anyone, from enthusiastic novices to seasoned dancers, will be able to improve their fancy footwork on these fun and friendly Country Dancing holidays.

During the holiday, we will also offer optional local tours.

There is nothing like the sound of a brass band, particularly in the build-up to Christmas. The Forest of Dean, an old mining community, has some of the best: this short break at Lindors will consist of musical entertainment within the hotel, as well as an evening out to enjoy the performance of a Championship section band in all its bombastic glory. Enjoy an afternoon tea on arrival, and an optional programme of morning and evening devotions throughout your stay. At this time, the hotel will be decorated in all its Christmas finery, the fire will be lit, and there will be gifts available to purchase in our small giftshop. Why not treat yourselves to a special getaway before the Christmas rush really gets going?