24-02-2025
Want to be like these lovely people having an excellent time dancing?
Then get your tickets!! There’s only FOUR DAYS until IVFDF starts.
Don’t miss out on what will be a brilliant festival!
20-02-2025
With just over a week left before IVFDF starts (make sure you get those tickets) we are very very excited to share our full timetable of dances with you!!
20-02-2025
Last but certainly not least we will have the lovely Small Square Band with calling by Jemima Swain for our Friday evening playford.
Keep an eye out for our full programme of dances coming out later today!!!
19-02-2025
We are excited to announce that on Saturday evening we have Canna’Laigh with Debbie Crossley calling for you Scottish Country dancing needs!
They have provided a dance sheet in the link below
IVFDF 2025 Scottish Dance Crib Sheet
18-02-2025
It’s time for the moment that at least some of you have potentially been waiting for!
We are very happy to show off OUR IVFDF 2025 SHIRT DESIGN!!!
Our amazing design for this year was created by the fabulous @kelpie_illo (go follow them on Instagram!!!) and we are so happy with the work they’ve done!
Shirts will be available to buy on the front desk in a variety of sizes and colours at any time over the weekend! However we are going to be first come first served on sizes, so if you don’t want to miss out make sure to get yours nice and early!
17-02-2025
Just when you thought all the artist announcements were done, there is more!
We have another bal for you all Saturday late afternoon, The Eurosession All Stars made up of Jo, Anna, Andrew and Nicky!!
Keep an eye out for our final two artist announcements and our evening dances timetable coming this week!
17-02-2025
Not done a bal before or has it been a little while? Come to a bal teaching workshop in Uni Central where Isobel Priest will teach you the basics in preparation for Portmanteau.
This workshop will be on Friday directly before the Portmanteau bal starts.
16-02-2025
Planning your journey to IVFDF?
The main venue is Sheffield University’s Student Union S10 2TG
Parking
If you need weekend parking close to the university we recommend Durham Road Q-Park car park, adjacent to the main venue. This costs £5 after 18:00 on Friday, and £6.50 all day on Saturday and Sunday.
Disabled parking bays are available on the ground floor of the Q-park, and there is step free access to the octagon from there.
Street parking in the vicinity is almost all permit-based. Some permit requirements no longer apply after 18:30 weekdays or on Saturday and Sunday, but we advise that you check before parking before being ticketed.
The SU is also accessible via blue and yellow route trams, and the 52 and 120 bus routes among others.
Can’t wait to see you all there!
15-02-2025
Saturday Morning
Sunday Morning
*drumroll…*
We’re happy to announce the workshop programme for the weekend!
A massive thankyou to everyone who has volunteered to run or play for a workshop, so much work goes into them and it makes the festival incredibly special! We have a huge range to choose from and we can’t wait to see you all there!
14-02-2025
Don’t forget our Saturday afternoon Ceilidh with Bellamira is a display event!
The Display Ceilidh is a very relaxed and encouraging setting so if you’re part of a dance group (or fancy putting something together just for IVFDF), we’d love to see what you can do!!!
13-02-2025
WHO’S THAT T-SHIRT?!
We have been hard at work at IVFDF HQ and are almost ready to reveal our 2025 t-shirt design to you all! Hype!!!
We are not doing pre-orders for shirts this year but will have a range of sizes and colours available to buy on the front desk of the festival when you pick up your tickets and over the weekend!
31-01-2025
Since one ceilidh a night is not enough we have a second Friday night ceilidh for you! Powerhouse will be playing with Erin Mansfield calling.
29-01-2025
We have a special treat on Saturday afternoon, the delightful Daisy Black will be telling us the story of Yde and Olive, A medieval trans-lesbian romance.
This a tale of disguise, high adventure, public baths, straight-talking angels, and the power of queer love. Weaving together medieval narrative with modern folk song, it will take you from birthing chambers to battlefields, castle chapels to court chambers crackling with gossip.
This show is 90 minutes long.
28-01-2025
On Saturday afternoon we have our display ceilidh spot. Join us to watch some dances and take part in a few yourself, all to the lovely tunes from Bellamira with calling by Jack Kanutin.
This is a display event so if you are part of a group and would like to show off your folk dancing skills please sign up at the front desk before the displays start at 14.30 on Saturday.
26-01-2025
Another Saturday excitement, we have a late-night contra with WillPower and Sam Tetley Smith calling!
25-01-2025
Up next on Saturday evening we have a ceilidh with the excellent Melrose Quintet and calling by John Brown!
24-01-2025
Everybody! It’s the moment that you have all been waiting for!
Drumroll please…
TICKETS FOR IVFDF 2025 ARE NOW ON SALE!!!
https://tickets.sheffield-ivfdf.org.uk/
Please share this with everybody you know and love! (also people you don’t know, and people you are indifferent about knowing)
24-01-2025
Next up in our announcements, on Saturday evening we have Playford from the excellent Purcell’s Polyphonic Party with Andrew Swaine calling!
21-01-2025
Another Friday evening excitement for you all. We have a late-night Bal with the wonderful Portmanteau!
If you haven’t done a Bal before, or want to brush up before the dance, there will be some teaching in the same room before Portmanteau starts.
20-01-2025
It is time for our next artist announcement!
For our Friday night contra, we have the fabulous Contrary Faeries with Charlie Turner calling.
18-01-2025
We are very excited to announce our first artist!!
Opening this year’s IVFDF we have the excellent Out of Hand with Calling by Patrick Rose for the first of two Friday night ceilidhs!
10-01-2025
Now that Christmas and New Years are out of the way, it’s time to start getting ready for IVFDF 2025!!!
The Final Program is still being finished up and we will have it with you shortly, but as of this weekend we will start posting regular announcements about who your evening dance bands are going to be, and it’s a very exciting lineup (even if we do say so ourselves)!
What we can tell you now is that on Friday evening, the front desk will be open from 4pm for collecting your tickets and t-shirts, and the first dance event will be starting at 6pm! Tickets will be available to purchase soon and we will post when sales go live, so plenty of reasons to keep your eye on this space!
We are also still accepting applications for stewarding! Stewarding gets you a discount on your ticket based on the hours you help out, and if you do 8 hours over the weekend your ticket is completely free! Plus, as a bonus incentive, the committee will love you and be forever in your debt! See the link below for details:
20-10-2024
Steward Applications Now Open!
Steward applications are open!
Please do consider stewarding, even just doing two hours gives you a bit of money back from your ticket and makes the committee love you forever.
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17-10-2024
Workshop Applications Now Open!
Workshop applications are open!
Sign up here to volunteer to run or play for a workshop here!
Don’t be afraid to sign up even if you’ve never run a workshop before – come and give it a go!Musician Workshop Application Form
Applications will close on the 31st of December