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Traditional folk music, dance
and customs - Harrogate, North Yorkshire - Chas Marshall's Website
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 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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The Village Hop Band
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Chas and Heather also play a similar
repertoire of English Country Dance music in the Village Hop Band.
This band has a flexible line-up which includes musicians who regulary
play together in bands and music sessions. This line-up can include
(in addition to melodeon, concertina and banjo) percussion, piano,
guitar, baritone horn, fiddle 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!
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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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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 Celidh at Waring Green Ceilidh with caller Gordon Wood
and Nick and Mary Barber. We also accompanying the Northern
Lights dancers at the Llangollen
Eisteddfod for International Youth Day where the team won first prize.
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