Cut A Shine in association with Lewisham People's Day presents an evening of Dance and Song at the Rivoli Ballroom, South East London..........Doors: 7:30...Brockley Ukelele Group 8:15....Cut A Shine Barn Dance 9:30 - 11pm......DJ Tofowski (Balkan Beats): 11pm til close........The Rivoli Ballroom is a splendid period built music hall, lovingly restored and maintained by it's current owners, retaining all it's period charm. The acoustics are fantastic and the lighting sublime (this is definitely not a cut throat promoter dressing mutton as lamb, it really is awesome!). Those of you who know the Rivoli will attest to it's splendor, and those that don't, you're in for a real treat! It's a venue designed and built for vintage dancing........North vs South: so far most of our dances have been in North and East London, and this is our foray into new territory. Quite a few people make it up to Norf London for the dances, so this is us bringing it hoe-down to you! ............Tickets: www.wegottickets.com/event/51480...........

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. Tickets: www.wegottickets.com/event/49218

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! www.wegottickets.co.uk

Join us for our Christmas Party Barn Dance at Shoreditch's premier venue for live music - Cargo! The Barn Dance craze hits the heart of Hoxton cool.... joined by The Long Notes - a stonking Irish band, Katy Carr and Plaster of Paris! Barn Dancin' 10 - 11:30pm. Since this is our special one off Christmas party the door charge is £3 in advance - a right bargain! Come dosie doh with us this Christmas... Cut A Shine xx

SATURDAY 29th NOVEMBER - LAST OF THE SUMMER SHINE. Our big barn dance night at the splendid Finsbury Town Hall. In Support THE KILLER METERS down and dirty funk band to shake ya booty to after the barn-tastic dancing. This night is to celebrate our finishing a mammoth 21 festival gigs this summer, and polish of the last of the wine. Prices set at a credit crunch busting £10, less than the last time! Doors 7:30, CUT A SHINE 8:30 - 10:30, FUNK BAND 11, DJs 12-2am. Tickets at WEGOTTICKETS.COM

Double Headine night featuring two of our favourite dance bands here at The Magpie's Nest and Cut A Shine. Both have played for full to bursting nights at the Old Queen's Head, and here team up for a ethno-world-trad-folk-tastic-dance-off at the legendary Cecil Sharp House, Camden's best dancing venue................ First, PAPRIKA BALKANICUS, playing red hot traditional Central and Eastern European tunes with astounding technical precision and beguiling energy and enthusiasm. Since we first booked Paprika at the Old Queen's Head they have toured extensively around the world, rocking shows in Japan and Austrialia, WOMAD, etc, as well as finding the time to light up the muddy dance floors at many UK festivals this year. With packed shows from the South Bank to South Korea, these boys never disappoint nor fail to get the crowds swinging and moving............. Next up THE ZONG ZING ALL STARS, featuring THE top brass congolese musicians resident in the UK. Never failing to get a crowd on their feet and dancing, from 5 - 500 people, no one can resist the intricate guitar picking styles and raw harmony singing of this 'Soukous' band - when the Seben drops even the most wooden of types are seen to dance! No Attitude, No Fuss, just great music for dancing...... PAPRIKA: 8:30pm, ZONG ZING 10pm.........TICKETS AT WEGOTTICKETS.COM

FRIDAY 7th NOVEMBER >> IT'S NOT A HUMDINGER, IT'S A SCOTTISH CEILIDH NIGHT!!!!! A rip roarer of a dance at Camden's premier dance venue, Cecil Sharp House. Playing alongside Scotland's fatest step dancing pipe playing folk-n-rollers Breabach. Well? It's not just the Scots who can strip the willow right? We got that whole barn dance shizzle goin on down here too - wall or no wall, it may have been two thousand years ago but we'll show em a move or two! DOORS 7pm, CUT A SHINE 8-10pm, BREABACH 10 - 11pm. £10 from WEGOTTICKETS.COM

Cut A Shine are lucky enough to have been booked for most of the best Summer Festivals the UK has to offer! Some are free and some are not, but wherever we get to there's sure to be a crazy barn dance! Click the image above to have a peek at where we're playing, and we really hope you see y'all at some of the shows! xxx

A fab day out and treat for North East Londoners, this festival by the river is FREE and looks great! SUNDAY 22ND JUNE

SATURDAY 7TH JUNE!!!! Stoke Newington Festival Barn Dance! Celebrating culture and art of Hackney. Joined by the Milli Moonstone band, and The Wickets - Flamenco Rock band! £5. The Others, 6-8 Manor Road, Stoke Newington. All proceeds pay for the Cut A Shine stage at StokeFest 2008 (which is on Sunday 8th June 12 - 7pm)

^^Click Image to Enlarge^^........Strictly Come Barn Dancing................... An evening of barn dancing with a twist. Fun and games, prizes and hijinks, all set in the splendor of the Grand Hall of the Old Finsbury Town Hall........... Our distinguished panel of dubious regional judges will award prizes for: * Best Barn Dancers, * Best Dressed Couple * Most Outrageous Swinging, and * Fastest Basketing ..........Also: A live set from The Lost Pirates - a rum drinking ska skanking funk mugging rabble of seafaring scruffians. .........and!.... Folkaoke: a twisted fusion of Bluegrass, 80's power ballads and your favourite local village band at your 3rd cousins' wedding. Take the stage and become the lead singer in a hillbilly covers band performing singalong classics from Huey Lewis to the Stone Roses, Beyonce to Bryan Adams. Party hick stlye with backing singers, dancing girls and a full live band to back you and your mates up. The best late night shenanigans you'll find - it's an anarchic camp fire sing-along gone wrong-along! .......Doors: 8pm,...... First Barn Dance: 8:30pm....... The Lost Pirates: 11:30pm...... Folkaoke (room 2): 10:30pm...... Close: 2am....... Tix here www.wegottickets.com/event/30217

Sunday Afternoon Tea Dances in the Glorious Finsbury Town Hall. Hosted by Art of the Dog. 2pm - 5pm.

Saturday 29th MARCH. early evening dance (7 - 8), part of this festival of "NEW" folk music and dance to be held at the shamelessly underused venue Cecil Sharps, Regent's Park. Expect top bands over three rooms. Brought to you by The Magpiesnest and The Local. See www.themagpiesnest.co.uk for full details and line ups.

Valentine's Survivors Party. The Finsbuiry Town Hall sold out, so we've got another dance all lined up! At The Others, 6-8 Manor Road, in Stoke Newington, FRIDAY 22nd FEBRUARY, £5. It's our fav warehouse space and great for a dance.... Cut A Shinex www.wegottickets.com/event/27345

SATURDAY 16th FEBRUARY, Finsbury Town Hall, £10, 8pm-2am.... Cut A Shine Barn Dating: all about courtship - ask someone for a dance, and dance with a stranger! Partner swapping dances, dressed up gingham games, barn dance hijinks and shenanigans...... Paprika Balkanicus: as spicy as the name suggests, these guys are the new cool face of Eastern European music. A whistle stop tour of the region playing wedding dances and party stonkers! They made even lead a few dances and teach us some steps...... Folkaoke: live band karoake but with folk instruments and dressing up. Woo and wow your new date with your Prince/80s power-ballad renditions accompanied by funk banjo and rock violin! email requests to info@cutashine.co.uk ..................tickets available at www.wegottickets.com/event/25666

Barn Dating. Reinventing speed dating in a barn dance stylee, and bringing a whole new meaning to "swing your partner": gingham games, a love parlour, message boards, masked and special dating dances.... it's all there! Featuring Live performance from 11 piece jump jive swing band FAT45 and the bona fide family band....yehaa! HOWEVER, this night is not just for singles, it's just themed...dagnamit, barn dancin' is pretty much about datin' and flirtin' anyway!.... £10 OTD (NOT a cheap venue, and you'll see why!)

Saturday 22nd September. Having landed after all the festivals, we are producing a season of monthly dances for September, Friday 19th October and Friday 16th November, back at the glorious Finsbury Town Hall in Clerkenwell. We're still ironing out the details and brewing the liquor, but expect some top bands, top fun and games, and some new dances. Highlights are a "Barn Dating" Night and our favourites Fat45 swing band.

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

www.shambalafestival.org.....Saturday Barn Dance Workshop followed by a Sunday night show! Learn those moves at this loverly festival...

www.innocentdrinks.co.uk We're down for 2 sets of Barn Dancing Saturday and Sunday at the Innocent Drinks Village Fete this weekend! Tickets only a fiver for the whole day and kids go half price....

Cut A Shine return to Lovebox to raise a dust storm again (both days)! Sly and the Family Shine..... xxx get yer tickets now! only £35 a day...

StokeFest 2007 - Sunday 10th June, Clissold Park, Stoke Newington. Yeeeeehhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaa joexx

In eager anticipation of the festival season, we invite you to come dance at our fundraiser for StokeFest - a free, independent festival to be held in Clissold Park, Stoke Newington on Sunday the 10th of June. This is our favourite free London festival, brought together by volunteers and with little backing from the powers that be! All proceeds from the door and bar will pay for a stage with a top notch line-up including the bands that play here tonight. Joined by Morning Bride – an Anglo-America 5 piece playing lush country-tinged music. great DJs on hand to keep party going til late! £8 adv, £10 otd.

**VENUE CHANGE** Due to lisence problems, our May Bank Holiday Dance will now be taking place at the Old Queen's Head Pub on Essex Rd. We're taking over both rooms of this sumptuous pub to bring you multi-folk-award winning band Van Eyken, Cut A Shine Barn Dance Shenanigans, The ZongZing All Stars - Congolese Soukous Dance band, and some Rock n' Roll/Swing/Bluegrass DJs well into the wee hours. YeeeeeHaaaaa! What a night! £10 advance or OTD. Doors 7:30 - 3am

Back at the glorious Finsbury Town Hall! 31st March and into April...joined by Romani Rad - a 30 strong troupe of Roma gypsy musicians and dancers, providing a dazzling, lively and colourful performance set to wild Eastern European beats! We are really looking forward to hosting them. Be warned - many high jinks expected come 1st of April! Advance tickets available soon from this site.

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.

Click Image to Enlarge!..... The splendid Victorian Ballroom of the Finsbury Town hall (see the gallery section) on Roseberry Avenue 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 is 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 the gallery section of this site for pictures of the venue!

click the image above to enlarge..... Friday 22nd December Cut A Shine host an evening of entertainment. The inevitable HoeDown (8:30 - 10), a Congolese Soukous band (10:30), Ba5ics (BeatBox 10) and some Rock n Roll and Honky Tonk DJs (til late). Venue is called the Others, 6-8 Manor road above the Snooker Hall. £5 in advance if email in info@cutashine.co.uk

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. As featured in Ye Olde Indy. Dress Code: Gingham, red shirts, truckers hats and jeans - Hicks with a touch of class!

Cut A Shine Monthly Barn Dance, first sundays of the month at the Bethnal Green Working Men's Club. Top notch bluegrass/hillbilly bands and DJs join forces for London's liveliest barn dance! 6pm - 12am, £5 with flyer. Dress Code: Gingham, red shirts, hats and jeans - Hicks with a touch of class!

LoveBox Weekender -this weekend!! Catch Cut A Shine 4pm everyday! It looks like a truely great festival: and it's got barn dancing y'all...

Click to enlarge. Festival Dates, Summer 2006

Raising yet more funds for StokeFest06, this dance promises to be just as fun as the last one, if not more so! Performing after the dance will be Fat45 - the world's best rock 'n roll review...8pm, The Others, 6-8 Manor Road, Stoke Newington (opp. overground station)

Easter Barn Dance at Hoxton Hall - a beautiful two tier victorian music hall! Fat45 Swing Band after the dance. VJ Musical Bear. Tickets Available - please email tickets@cutashine.co.uk to reserve your (£8) ticket.

St Valentine's Barn Dance. All money raised from this dance will go towards funding StokeFest, a free day event to be held in Clissold Park on the 11th June 2006. The venue is quite small so please come early! However, it should be going on late with DJ's after the dance.....£6 waged and £4 for concessions and those dressed to ceilidh! At: The Others, 6 - 8 Manor Road, Stoke Newington.

We'll be pitching in with the regular Thursday night delights at the Bethnal Green WMC, with a little Barn Dance Mayhem.....

Cut A Shine will be causing mayhem at Jack and Ginger's regular night at the Bethnal Gr. WMC. 42 Pollard Row, E2. 9pm - 2am. Dance 10pm.....

Winter Warmer at the fabulous 291 gallery! Oil your clogs and grease your skillet, and leave your six gun at the door! New Style Old Time Barn Stomp, starting 9pm Sharpe. Djs from midnight, Hometime 2am, $6.

Rocking Ceilidh and AfterParty at the St George's Community Centre on Tufnel Park Rd. The venue is sadly no more: massive respect to the Circle Communuty Centre Crew for all they achieved and for all they wanted to do....