Friday - Ceilidh
Band: GloryStrokes
Caller: Pete Rees
Possibly the world's only traditional English metalcore dance band, GloryStrokes bring together some well known names from the UK folk dance scene with a cataclysmic dash through their skeleton-riddled musical closets. Take two melodeons, add double kick drums, detuned guitars, beats, samples and weird keyboard noises and you're left with traditional music as it hasn't been heard before, bridging the barrier from barn dance to mosh pit, with shouts from the deleteriously delirious Pete Rees.
Friday - Eurodance
Band: Janiveer (ex Jabadaw)
As Jabadaw they have been delighting French dance audiences across the country for years with their trad-jazz fusion tunes and relaxed style. Now enlivened and reformed as Janiveer they are great for some slinky French dancing or for chilling out and taking in the atmosphere.
Friday - Eurodance
Band: Minnie Moosika
Minnie Moosika play frenetic foot stamping music for dance, from Eastern European and Klezmer traditions. Clarinet, fiddle, double bass, mandola, voice and guitar - tight melodies, sharp arrangements that will whisk you away.
Saturday - Display
Band: Sheffield Scratch Band
Caller: John Brown & Others
The display ceilidh is a chance for groups to showcase the best they can do. Display spots and ceilidh dancing.
Saturday - Concert
Band: John Spiers & Jon Boden
John Spiers and Jon Boden have been consistently wowing audiences up and down the country for the last 5 years with their unique blend of traditional English folk song with a contemporary twist and hi-octane dance tunes which get everyone dancing. Winners of the Best Duo category at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in both 2004 and 2006, and founders of the Big-Band folk phenomenon that is Bellowhead, Spiers & Boden now find themselves at the forefront of the new folk revival.
Saturday - Concert
Band: Crucible
Crucible marry driving and infectious instrumental music with richly layered harmony song and subtle accompaniments. Their music combines the deepest roots of their native English tradition with a fresh and contemporary edge to produce performances sparking with raw energy. Now enjoying considerable success, they have performed on the main stages of major folk festivals in the UK and abroad, and at IVFDF we see them back in their home town of Sheffield.
Saturday Night - Ceilidh
Band: The Gloworms
Caller: Nick Walden
For our Saturday night e-ceilidh knees up we're going to take you on a journey through the shiny bright, utterly stompy and effervescent music of the amazing Gloworms, in perfect partnership with the eminent Nick Walden, who will guide you through the dances with his own inimitable flair.
Saturday - Contra
Band: Vertical Expression
Caller: Andrew Swaine
High-energy contra band Vertical Expression took IVFDF 2007 by storm and we are delighted that they're coming back for more in 2008, ably assisted by the immensely talented caller Andrew Swaine. Featuring a 4-piece line up of fiddle, melodeon, guitar and double bass, the band's sound is based on a repertoire of American, French-Canadian and Irish tunes and influenced by the musicians' backgrounds in English ceilidh, bluegrass and jazz. Andrew is a popular caller and IVFDF regular who is well-known on the contra dance circuit.
Saturday - Scottish
Band: Triple Scotch
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Manchester-based band Triple Scotch are professional musicians who have been playing Scottish traditional music from a young age. They all studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and have won various awards and performed on BBC Radio Scotland. As well as playing together regularly for Scottish dance events all over the UK, individually the band members have toured all over the world both as Scottish traditional and classical musicians.
Saturday - Late Night
Band: The Grinders' Misfortune Society
Organic anglo-trad drum+bass clockworktronica party music, bringing folk crashing into the walls of the exceptionally contemporary, for anyone who just can't help but jump around. Members have a wide range of musical backgrounds (Crucible, Hekety, Jabadaw, Gloworms and Glorystrokes) and are all well-known on the scene (and on other scenes) in various guises, but are here united in a new 21st Century quest. (18+ Only)
Sunday - Survivors
Band: Scratch Band lead by Trinculo
Caller: Jenny Reid & Others
Dance to the end of the festival on Sunday afternoon with a band made up from anyone who wants to take part. A gentle relaxed ceilidh to round off the end of the weekend.