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Started in Victoria, BC in 2001 by Ann Schau and Dan Page, The Dancehall Players is now a five-member ensemble of musicians and composers specializing in English Country Dance music. The Dancehall Players regularly play for dances in Victoria, Vancouver and the Gulf Islands on the west coast of Canada. The group has recorded eight albums of original and traditional dance music, including collaborations with international dance callers. Instruments include piano, violins, flute, recorders, guitar, banjo, mandolin, cello, and percussion. 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We were asked by caller Rosemary Lach to play for an English country dance workshop, a style that neither of us had met before and it was an adventure! In the fall, we started playing regularly for Victoria English Country Dance at Dan’s Hall. This was the beginning of The Dancehall Players, creating the foundations of our ECD style from our quite different musical backgrounds. Dan was primarily a folk dance musician. Though an experienced classical pianist, I had never before had the opportunity to accompany fiddle and play for dance. Live music every Thursday night - what a treat! And a great way for both of us to learn the new style - and gradually meet other musicians in those early years. - Ann https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6088c92e1acb1064cfdba5ea/1622177722262-BKF8G9D3BXUZTUVM0743/Ann+Schau+on+piano Band Members https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6088c92e1acb1064cfdba5ea/1622178585382-J4XABZXODU9D8JSK6DJ5/Gregory+on+flute Band Members - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6088c92e1acb1064cfdba5ea/1622698205593-GPHPO3NJ5Z3FHRYQITHX/Dancehall_Players_Band_2.jpeg Band Members - Band 2 - The band expands Gradually after ECD started at Dan’s Hall, our group expanded. As we learned our style, people would sit in with us - and some were keepers! I began playing chamber music with Gregory about 2002. Our first ECD gig was at a Hands Across The Water weekend here in Victoria - we substituted one Saturday afternoon workshop to give the hired band a ‘rest’. Susan, a violinist from Vancouver, friend of caller Rosemary Lach, joined us. Though the three of us had never played together before, we clicked! Soon after, we met our cellist Karen at a Thursday night dance and invited her to join us. She was also a tunesmith, like Dan. They inspired me and the three of us would gather periodically in the summer at Dan’s Hall to play each other our tunes. One of my fondest memories of the Hall is summer breezes blowing through, the warm camaraderie of my friends, and the sound of clucking chickens outside in the field. Somewhere there’s a cassette tape of that day! Dan was an admirer of the work of Keith Malcolm. He had a collection of Keith’s tunes that we played frequently at our Tuesday morning sessions. Dan introduced us all after a few years and soon Keith was joining us on Thursday workshop sessions at the hall. Within a few years the expanded band played at all the English Country dances in Victoria and occasionally in Vancouver and on Mayne Island. We made our first album together in 2010. - Ann https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6088c92e1acb1064cfdba5ea/1622178939541-2LDFYM7MK3F52XETMGYM/Keith+on+fiddle Band Members https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6088c92e1acb1064cfdba5ea/1622178206625-O9A13KH2DAG9CXXZ7CCK/Karen+on+cello Band Members https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6088c92e1acb1064cfdba5ea/1622179150059-D2ORG3VL2JIJ9T2CLOZ0/Susan+cropped.jpg Band Members - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6088c92e1acb1064cfdba5ea/1622698381512-HAN50YW6U63OGZP1R265/Aaron+on+fiddle.jpeg Band Members - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6088c92e1acb1064cfdba5ea/1622179678686-61EZ5HLRWWX5VPVBLGUM/IMG_6776.jpeg Band Members - Band 3 - New faces, new voices After a dozen years or so, our band began to shift, as Dan, Keith and Karen curtailed their musical activities for various reasons. In 2012, we invited Lael Whitehead as our guest for our second album, More From Dan’s Hall. She had been playing with us frequently on Thursday evenings at Dan’s Hall and was not only a wonderful multi-instrumentalist but also fit right in to the ‘feel’ of the band. After that she became a regular member of The Dancehall Players. Some time after, when we were booked to play a Hands Across The Water weekend in Victoria, Lael was not available for the final day of workshops, so she arranged for friend Aaron Ellingsen to fill her spot. Aaron had not met English Country Dance style before! We all really appreciated how he played with us and as a bonus, he fell in love with the music in the process (as have we all!). Around the same time, Keith found it more difficult to make Thursday evenings and other gigs, so gradually Aaron became a permanent band member. Karen stopped playing cello around 2015, and recommended her friend and fellow cellist, Barrie Webster. 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Please feel free to learn, play, and share this tune in Rosemary’s memory! Download the sheet music https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6088c92e1acb1064cfdba5ea/1621402309962-B1KB5BAM0O7PK3VLIZHZ/Keith%27s+Own+book+front.jpg Sheet Music & Books - Keith’s Own Stuff, fiddle tunes by Keith Malcom | 2018 A collection of jigs, reels, waltzes, slow airs, and a small handful of swing tunes, all penned by Keith between 1986 and 2018. Good for contra dance, square dance, barn dance, and English country dance. ”I am very happy to present a book of my original fiddle tunes. I have been composing tunes since 1978. My inspiration comes from people, animals, nature and outer space. That pretty much covers the entire solar system”. Order your copy from the CDSS website https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6088c92e1acb1064cfdba5ea/1621403283638-DIYSKDPRSRRZFUSUIURZ/Keith+Malcom+-+Cruisin+in+My+Dream+Car.jpg Sheet Music & Books Click to download sheet music for Cruisin’ in My Dream Car, a G minor tune from Keith’s Own Stuff! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6088c92e1acb1064cfdba5ea/1621401545600-4FJFWWEU7ZZR41NEHIX0/Fresh+From+Dan%27s+Hall+book+cover.jpg Sheet Music & Books - Fresh From Dan’s Hall, original tunes by The Dancehall Players | 2016 This book includes sheet music for all 19 original tunes from the album Fresh From Dan’s Hall, plus 10 more from our other albums and a never-recorded bonus waltz! Join us and enjoy this music - written to share with friends. Order your copy from the CDSS (US) website, from Folksales (UK), or from AADS (BE) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6088c92e1acb1064cfdba5ea/1623811655562-ECGW6IAMVUYIWKDQ56UF/Faeries+and+Fools.jpg Sheet Music & Books Click to download sheet music for Faeries and Fools, a tune by Lael Whitehead from Fresh From Dan’s Hall! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6088c92e1acb1064cfdba5ea/1622699452762-RXAF79IXUORV3O9PCKO8/Dan+Page+tunebook.jpg Sheet Music & Books - B.C. Fiddle Tunes from Victoria, B.C. by Dan Page (Volume 1) | 2012 Calvin Vollrath inspired me to make tunes when he said “Music is just a bunch of notes going up and down”. A revelation. This collection went from rough form in a binder on my kitchen table to this book you hold in your hand, with the help of Ann Schau and Karen McIvor. Thanks to both Ann and Karen for many of the accompanying chords. And thanks to all those musicians, near and far, who have played music with me over the years. Thanks also to all the tunes that inspired me to write unintentional variations! I hope you find them useful and enjoyable. DP 5/9/2012 Waltzes, polkas, reels, jigs, hornpipes - 42 tunes in all. Click to listen to Whileaway Waltz (2004), recorded by The Dancehall Players on An Evening At Dan’s Hall in 2018 Email meganmccaffreymusic@gmail.com to order your copy of volumes 1 through 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6088c92e1acb1064cfdba5ea/1623811061012-4VGG4X7CGOKPBCQAMF7Q/Whileaway+Waltz.jpg Sheet Music & Books Click to download sheet music for Whileaway Waltz, a tune from B.C. Fiddle Tunes from Victoria, B.C. Volume 1 by Dan Page https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6088c92e1acb1064cfdba5ea/1625253646350-NJCF6D2H6YLM3DW3DKS0/Dan+Page+BC+Fiddle+Tunes+Too.jpg Sheet Music & Books - BC Fiddle Tunes Too, volume 2 of original fiddle tunes by Dan Page | 2012 Email meganmccaffreymusic@gmail.com to order your copy of volumes 1 through 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6088c92e1acb1064cfdba5ea/1622699725176-JIFFO2TWMT5X1VWMB7QQ/Karen+McIvor+tune+book.jpg Sheet Music & Books - Fresh Tunes by Karen McIvor | 2010 Welcome to my Fresh Tune book. I hope you find something here you like. Writing tunes is lots of fun, and naming them is a way of showing my gratitude for all the people and places that have changed me, for the better I hope, over my lifetime. And so you’ll find seasons and places and family and friends, and if you don’t see yourself this time, just wait! Thanks, everyone, for sharing your lives with me. May every season be a season of joy! Love, Karen 12/12/2010 Waltzes, jigs, marches, airs - 57 tunes in all. 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