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Traditional folk music, dance
and customs - Harrogate, North Yorkshire - Chas Marshall's Website
The Village Hop Band and Hop Back
Jig
The Village Hop Band
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An experienced ceilidh band based around
lively traditional English dance music played on melodeon and anglo
concertina by Heather Hazell and Chas Marshall. This band has a
flexible line-up which includes musicians who play regularly together
in various bands and music sessions. In addition to melodeon and
concertina, the line-up can include piano, french horn, fiddle,
banjo, percussion, guitar, and recorder. This band can be engaged
either with, or without, the services of a caller for birthdays,
celebrations, weddings, barn dances, fund raising events etc.
Contact Heather Hazell
on 01423-527892.
Hear the
Village Hop Band with Dave Blight (bodhran), Nigel Swan (piano)
and Jan Porter (recorder) at Heatherdene Folk Dance Club, April
2007.
Hear
the Village Hop Band with Heather, Chas and Nick Barber (baritone
horn) at Heatherdene Folk Dance Club April 2008.
Hear
the "One Night Band" - another line-up with Heather,
Chas, Paul Hudson (piano) and caller Barbara Bentley. This band
was originally formed to play for one night only at a fund raising
ceilidh for Clogfest
in 2008, but the arrangement worked so well that we have continued
to perform in spite the, now, inappropriate name!
Hear
the Village Hop Band with Nick Barber and Heather (melodeons),
Mary Barber (fiddle) and Chas (anglo concertina) in session at Stean
Cottage during March 2010.
Hear
the Village Hop Band with Paul Hudson (piano), Mike Johnson
(percussion), Carol Johnson and Heather Hazell (melodeons) and Chas
Marshall (anglo concertina). A live recording from the Clogfest
fund raising ceilidh at Gargrave Village Hall in November 2011.
Hear the
Village Hop Band with Paul Hudson (piano), Mike Johnson (trombone),
Carol Johnson and Heather Hazell (melodeons) and Chas Marshall (anglo
concertina). A live recording from the Church in the Dale ceilidh
at Pateley Bridge Memeorial Hall in February 2013.
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Chas, Heather, Mary and Nick at Stean
Cottage, April 2009
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Band Diary
The year of 2008 was a busy
one for band activities and with our various line-ups we provided music
for 33 folk dance events. We especially enjoyed playing at our 3 local
folk dance clubs - Heatherdene
Folk Dance Club in Harrogate, Highside Folk Dance
Club in Galphay and Knaresborough Country
Dance Club. But there were a couple of highlights which were very
special - playing for the Clogfest
ceilidh at Cracoe Village Hall with caller Martin Harvey and for the Early
Dance Circle at Ashville College, with Diana Campbell calling.
In 2009 we continued to play
for our both folk local dance clubs and at many other events which totalled
30 performances for the year. Highlights included playing at Ryburn
Three Step Ceilidh at Waring Green Ceilidh with caller Gordon Wood
and Nick and Mary Barber. We also accompanied the Northern
Lights dancers at the Llangollen
Eisteddfod for International Youth Day where the team won first prize.
We played about at about 27
bookings during 2010 - unfortunately a couple were cancelled due to the
bad weather. One of the year's memorable gigs was in the Station Hall
at York's National Railway Museum
with a backdrop of a Battle of Britain class locomotive called the Winston
Churchill. Another was in the lovely wood-panelled library at Ripley
Castle.
2011 saw the band playing at
30 different events. We especially enjoyed playing with Nick and Mary
Barber as guests at the Bradfield Traditional Music Weekend and we were
privileged to have the wonderful Sue Coe as our caller on a couple of
occasions.
The band played at 27 events
during 2012. At the Clogfest Fund Raising ceilidh in November we had 7
peice line-up including the Barber family (Nick, Mary and Sarah) and the
Johnsons (Mike and Carol).
| Date |
Band |
Event |
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1 January 2013 |
Village Hop Band |
New Year's Day Ceilidh,
Addingham |
| Fri
18 January 2013 |
Village Hop Band |
Highside
Folk Dance Club. CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER |
| Fri
25 January 2013 |
Village Hop
Band |
Burns'
Night at Dacre Banks Village Hall. Tickets £12.50 from Pat Hutchinson
01423 780456. |
| Sat
2 February 2013 |
Village Hop
Band |
How
Stean Gorge Folk Night. Admission £2 - proceeds to Upper Wharfedale
Fell Rescue Team. |
| Sat
9 February 2013 |
Village Hop
Band |
Church
in the Dale Charity Ceilidh, Pateley Bridge Memorial Hall.
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| Fri
15 February 2013 |
Village Hop Band |
Highside
Folk Dance Club. |
| Fri
1 March 2013 |
Yorkshire
Gold |
YAMSEN
- Mrs Porter's Concert Party |
| Mon
4 March 2013 |
Village Hop Band |
Heatherdene
Folk Dance Club, Harrogate. |
| Sat
9 March 2013 |
Village Hop Band |
Wheeleasy
Ceilidh at Pannal. |
| Fri
15 March 2013 |
Village Hop Band |
Dishforth Officers' Mess. |
| Sat
23 March 2013 |
Village Hop Band |
Grewelthorpe
Village Hall Fund Raising Ceilidh at Masham Town Hall. |
| Sun
31 March 2013 |
Village Hop
Band |
Private Party,
Wedding Celebration, Rowley Manor, Little Weighton. |
| Fri
10 May 2013 |
Yorkshire
Gold |
YAMSEN
- Mrs Porter's Concert Party |
| Sat
11 May 2013 |
Village Hop Band |
Private Party, Ripley Town
Hall. |
| Fri
17 May 2013 |
Yorkshire
Gold |
Highside
Folk Dance Club. |
| Sat
25 May 2013 |
Village Hop Band |
Private Birthday Party,
Bishop Monkton Village Hall |
| Fri
31 May 2013 |
Village Hop Band |
Highside
Folk Dance Club. |
| Sat
8 June 2013 |
Village Hop
Band |
Ripon Grammar
School. |
| Sat
15 June 2013 |
Village Hop
Band |
Private Birthday
Party, Stone House Inn |
| Sat
29 June 2013 |
Village Hop
Band |
Village Ceilidh,
Langthorpe. |
| Sat
20 July 2013 |
Village Hop
Band |
Private Party,
25th Wedding Anniversary Celebration, Pateley Bridge Memorial Hall. |
| Sat
27 July 2013 |
Village Hop
Band |
Private Party, Wedding Celebration,
Burnsall.
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| Sat
21 September 2013 |
Village Hop
Band |
Private
Party, Wakefield |
| Sat
5 October 2013 |
Village Hop
Band |
Private
Party, Wedding Celebration, Hampsthwaite. |
| Sat
23 November 2013 |
Village Hop
Band |
Private
Party, Wedding Celebration. |
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The Village Hop Band
at the Wheel Easy
Ceilidh, 31 January 2009. Nick, Mary, Chas and Heather. "Many
thanks again for doing a great job to make the Ceilidh such a
success" - Malcolm and Gia.
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"If you weren't at the session
on Tuesday you missed a stonker, Chas, Heather, plus Nick and
Mary Barber were really blowing up a storm; enthusiastically encouraged
by a set of drunken conference-attendees who rolled up later in
the evening. What a powerful sound they made, the conference people
couldn't help but dance, and dance they did." - Ray Black,
23 July 2010.
"We would like to say a very
big thank you to you and the band for helping to make Saturday
night such a great evening. Marcus and I both thoroughly enjoyed
it and the girls had a fantastic time. They were totally exhausted
by the end of the evening but they would have danced all night
given half the chance and have told us it was the best party they
have ever ever been to great praise indeed I can assure
you. We have had several calls and text messages from people to
say what a brilliant evening it was and how much people had enjoyed
themselves and people have come up to me in the playground at
school today to say the same. We also had comments from the Sutton
Village Hall committee members who were staffing the bar for us
that the evening seemed to have a been a great success and it
was so nice to see everyone enjoying themselves." - Rachel
Copping, 11 October 2010.
"We had a wonderful party and
really enjoyed the music and the dancing." - Sarah Shaw,
17 October 2010.
"Many thanks to you and the
band for a splendid night on Saturday. It really was a super night
that Rita and everybody that attended really did enjoy. You really
did get everything right and it was much appreciated." -
Stuart Raggett 16
November 2010
"A big thank you to you all
for another great evening. I have been in Pateley this afternoon
and received many appreciative remarks about the Ceilidh. Everyone
thoroughly enjoyed it and are saying they will come to the next
one!! I think it has definitely become an annual affair."
- Constance Hutchin 21 February
2012
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Fund raising ceilidh
for Clogfest at
St John's Church Hall, Bilton. November 2012
Nick, Mary, Chas,
Heather, Carol and Mike
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Amid the dark wood
panelling in Ripley Castle
Library, October 2010.
Nick, Mary, Heather, Barabara
and Chas.
"So many people commented
on the music and dancing and how super you were - the caller was
great - and a good time was had by all!" Elizabeth and
Alastair
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Hop Back Jig
An experienced four piece ceilidh band playing
mainly English Country Dance music for birthdays, celebrations, weddings,
barn dances, fund raising events etc. Listen
to the band playing the Tip Top Polka and the Tip Top Hornpipe.
Reasonable rates! Contact Heather Hazell
on 01423-527892 or Harry Scurfield on 01943-465436.

Hop Back Jig at Galphay Village
Hall - 15 March 2003
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Harry ("Gumbo") Scurfield
- Caller, Tuba and Anglo Concertina
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Gabi Scurfield - Fiddle
Harry and Gabi also play in the Otley based Cajun influenced band
"Bayou Gumbo".
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Heather Hazell - Melodeon.
Heather has previously played in two other Harrogate ceilidh bands
- Fred Pigeon's Polka Band and Laycock's Overdrive.
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Chas Marshall - Anglo Concertina,
Tenor Banjo
and Bass Drum.
(photo courtesy Nick
Barber)
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And again - Harry
("Gumbo") Scurfield - Caller, Tuba and Anglo Concertina
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The band's name is
a play on words inspired by both morris dancing and brewing! A
hop back step can be found in morris dancing and the name jig
refers to a show dance for one, or sometimes two, morris dancers.
In brewing a hop back is a device in which hot wort is run through
a bed of whole hops. This imparts hop aroma to the beer and also
acts as a filter clarifying the wort.
Put the hop back
in your step with Rooster's
Beers!
Put the hop back on your palate with Rooster's
Beers!
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