Wooo hoooooo! the sun is out and it's that time of year for outdoor events. Join Cut A Shine and the awesome DULWICH UKULELE CLUB on the Southwark Bandstand SUNDAY 5th July between 2pm and 4pm. Details here: www.southwark.gov.uk/whatson/bandstand

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NEWS FLASH!!! Cut A Shine will be playing at the absolutely astounding Rivoli Ballroom on Friday 3rd July, at the official launch party for Lewisham People's Day. The Rivoli is an exceptional period music hall with fantastic acoustics, having been designed and built for dancing and live music. What an honour! x

Goodbye Finsbury Town Hall (URDANG), it's been nice knowing you. We're packing up our instruments, rolling up our gingham and heading out on the road and across the plains like a gigantic gypsy caravan to find a venue that likes what we do (and where you can hear yourself think without that echo)!

Thanks for all who attended the Spring Barn Dance, what a lovely evening of dancing x

Put a Spring in your step and hop along to the next Cut A Shine Barn Dance - a night of unparalleled barn dance mayhem! Come help us save 2000 years of English Folklore by dancin' some raucous reels and jovial jigs. Spring is here, the sun's come out, the long summer days are looming and it's time to stomp on the barn dance floor. Cut A Shine! 8-2am, Barn Dance, DJs, Ciders, nice bar and a right ol' jolly social knees up - for a snippet at 10 quid. At the FINSBURY TOWN HALL. After this one we'll be off round the festivals - more info on this soon. x

Cut A Shine present a Valentine's Barn Dating Ball. It's a big hoedown where everyone gets to dance with each other, with a few tricks thrown into the pot to encourage you to dance with new people! Following that, the fantastic 11 piece jump jive swing band Fat 45, by and far the best post barn dance band ever. To round things off, a Folkaoke Hillbilly karaoke sing along. Three top bands and a top night out even if you're single or not!

Yoooooo! Join us for our big Christmas Party!! Sunday 21st December @ CARGO, Rivington St, Shoreditch... following the sell out success of the Finsbury Town Hall event we're throwing a Christmas party - dosey doh into the Christmas spirit.. £3 advance (cos it's a party) £5 on the door....dancing 10 - 11:30, cut a shine xx

Saturday 29th November - Cut A Shine at The Finsbury Town Hall. Also playing - The Killer Meters Funk Band. £10............Saturday 6th December - Paprika Balkanicus + The Zong Zing All Stars @ Cecil Sharps.

StokeFest Photos added to Gallery. What a day! woweeee xx

Saturday 7th June: StokeFest Fundraiser Barn Dance with Milli Moonstone and The Wickets Flamenco rock band: £5! (The Others, Stoke Newington). All proceeds towards the Cut A Shine stage at StokeFest2008 - the next day -Sunday 8th June- in Clissold Park, 12 - 7pm **FREE**

Friday 23rd May sees the next big dance at the Finsbury Town Hall. Details in Next Event section...tix here http://www.wegottickets.com/event/30217

www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7PZcz0ZdIE (copy and paste) yippee!

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TICKETS ON SALE FOR THE VALENTINE'S SURVIVORS PARTY! www.wegottickets.com/event/27345

Valentine's Survivors Party. Since the Finsbury Town Hall sold out, we got another do all lined up already! FRIDAY 22nd FEBRUARY, The Others, 6-8 Manor Road, in Stoke Newington, , 7-2am, £5. It's our fav warehouse space and great for a dance.... Cut A Shinex

Hello everyone. Regrettably the dance has sold out of tickets - we simply can't sell or promise tickets over and above our legal capacity because we don't want to be dodgy promoters. However, it is often the case that there are returns on the door, so please try your luck - it will have to be one in one out, but not impossible! cut a shine xx

we've nearly sold out for the 16th Feb! 30 more tickets have just been put on sale, so snap em up fast.... there should be 50 left on the door on a first come first served basis too though.... roll on the ball! xx cut a shine xx

Valentine's Barn Dating Ball with Cut A Shine, to be held on Saturday 16th February at the glorious Finsbury Town Hall. Partner swapping dances, gingham games, love parlour - hilarious! Joining us will be the unmissable Paprika Balkanicus - spicy and fiery boys from Eastern Europe with proper rocking dance tunes. Also featuring Folkaoke - live band karaoke with funk banjo and rock violin!.........tickets available from www.wegottickets.com/event/25666

what a night! thanks to all the cut a shine family! The dancers, the callers, the musicians, the performers, the organisers, FAT45 who rocked out, The Family Band for lovely intro music, the soundman Dave Blond, the bar staff, the love shack, and above all y'all for making it a special night and a lovely vibe. I'll shut up now before it sounds like an award ceremony speech. looking forward to the next one, sometime someplace soon... xx

FRIDAY 16th NOVEMBER. reinventing speed dating in a barn dance styleeee.... yehaaaa! It's barn datin'! don your gingham, leave the other half at home and strip your willow on the barn dating floor... fun and games and frolics and great bands and moonshine and everything and maybe find y'all a nice young farmer to sow your seeds with....

Saturday 22nd September: Baltic Barn Dance at the Finsbury Town Hall, with She'Koyokh (Sh-coy-ah), a nine piece klezmer band who promise to teach some Eastern European moves, and Brothers Bab Ska Band! Who can say fairer than that for a nights entertainment? 8pm-2am. Tenner to get in cos the venue costs over a grand to hire boo x

Best-of-all! Friday morning queue fun, 9pm Friday Das Spiegel Tent Come Dancin', Saturday Hick Hop HoeDown, and Pirate Parade Fancy Dress - yipee! Isle of whight rocks. See you there

Electric Picnic Festival in Ireland: we stole yer ceili, mashed it all up and then brought it back! Not a Siege of Ennis in sight but a great craic.xxxx

Sunny Shambala Festival - thanks for having us! 'bout time we learnt some new dances innit, our festival set is getting a bit played out......!xx

Great fun in the sun on the Innocent Village Fete 'alfresco' stage, four shows and hundreds of dancers! This smoothie rider is going to take an eternity to finish, delicious as it is...........yum.

Thanks to Secret Garden Party for having us! Thanks to all the crew and lovely people running the AMP Stage (Art Music Politics). Cracking late night ceilidh chaos!x

Cut A Shine return to Lovebox, playing both days, to raise a dust storm again! get yer tickets now... see next event section for the full, and incredible, lineup...xxx

10 shows in 3 days....what a burn out! thanks to everyone for helping us pull off this marathon schedule: the musicians, the callers, the dancers, stan the roadie, stage crew and soundpeople...home safe and sound now

Next dance is at StokeFest, to be held in Clissold Park on Sunday 10th June. We are playing on the Global HoeDown stage, produced by Cut A Shine and Continental Drifts. Great Line up! See next event section for details...Yeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!

Thanks for all who attended the StokeFest Fundraiser Dance at The Others! Thanks to Morning Bride and all musicians and DJs who played for free. We raised a stonkin' £2000 for this years StokeFest, to pay for the Global HoeDown Stage... roll on Sunday 10th June..

Saturday 26th May. Raising much needed money for our favourite independent free London festival, StokeFest (held on 10th June). Barn Dance shenanigans late into the night, and joined by local band Morning Bride - anglo-america 5 piece country-tinged band. All proceeds from the door and bar go towards the festival, and the bands are playing for free! £8 adv, £10 otd, 7pm start

We've taken over, and removed all the furniture from, the Old Queen's Head pub on Essex Road for our May Dance! Cut A Shine Barn Dance, multi-award winners Van Eyken, Congolese Soukous band The ZongZing All Stars, and surprise others, all in store for a great night! DJs til the wee hours, £10 adv, 7:30 - 3am

The gallery is updated with pix from Saturday 31st, in a random order - they were all organised but the website crashed!

Cut A Shine are back at the Finsbury Town Hall for another night of Barn Dance mayhem! Joined by Romani Rad - a troupe of Roma dancers and musicians! Advance ticketing available for this one. We've now got a later license so the event will run 8 - 2am, £8 in advance!

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Thursday March 1st we'll be back at the Bethnal Green Working Men's for a night of HoeDown and Hicks! We're joined by The Generators: Country and Western music in an East End style (cockney Hank Williams!) 42 Pollard Row, E2.

What a splendid night. The miracle canadian lodge dance, and Fat45 rocked 300 people..... apologies to those who couldn't get in on the door - advance tickets are going to be made available for future events! Cut A Shinexxxx

The splendid Victorian Ballroom of Finsbury Town Hall (see gallery section) on Roseberry Av. plays host to our Valentine's Ball - newly refurbished and opened as the Urdang Academy. Barn Dancing from 8pm - 10:30, followed by the jump jiving 11 peice swing band FAT 45 to rock n' roll and jive the dance to a close at 12am. There's free entry to all attendees to the Queen Boadicea late bar, 2 minutes away, for some hip huggin' jitter buggin' DJs into the wee hours. See gallery section of this site for pictures of the venue!

Join Cut A Shine for our Solstice Party on Friday 22nd December - at The Others, 6-8 Manor road. Featuring barn dancing, A congolese soukous band, and performance from Human Beatbox Bass6 and La Reb de la Fem, plus some fun DJ's.....only a fiver! starts 8ish.

Sunday 3rd December at the Bethnal Green Working Men's Club (42 Pollard Row, E2). Get in gingham gear for the party season, grab a partner and shoot the owl at Cut A Shine's december dance! Joined by the banjo widows, barnstorming bluegrass DJs! 8pm start, $5

Cut A Shine Monthly Dance! Joined by The Draw Backs, Hackney's finest Country and Bluegrass band - on at 8pm. Barn Dance Starts 9pm, and DJs 10:30pm

Cut A Shine @ the Bethnal Green Working Men's Club: playing host to London's most lively monthly Barn Dance - on the first sunday of every month. Joining us every month will be top notch barnstorming bluegrass/hillbilly bands and redneck DJs. Time to get yer gingum out! First Dance: Sunday 1st October

The Mayor of London's very own festival. Question is, can our Ken do-si-do in all his bling? We love you Ken Livingstone!

Cut A Shine set to Hoe Down at Bestival on the Isle of Whight at the HickHop Spiegel Tent - with Caberet, Bluegrass, magicians and Hill-Billy bands aplenty. Got your tickets yet?

LoveBox: great festival, great dancing, big fun.... now onto Secert Garden.....

Congratulations and thanks to all who attended the dance last night: we raised over £2000 for Stoke Newington Festival (a free community event)!!

Click here to watch our new vid.

Valentine's Barn Dance and StokeFest06 fundraiser. Who needs a partner when you can dance with 10! See 'next event' for more info....

The dance at the 291 on the 19th Nov was heralded as a great success (despite the echo). Thanks to all involved in the band, organisation and promotion; and most of all to everyone who braved the bitter weather to come and Cut a Shine.....

This is the new Cut A Shine website. Crafted by woodsman and worked by miners to give it a truly smooth taste. It's just gone 'Live', so there's not much content yet!