ADSIDELINES - Sword dancers make sharp move
OF course, it could all end up as one big pub crawl . . .
While it's a bit soon for most of us to be thinking about Christmas and the New Year, it's uppermost in the minds of the Grenoside Sword Dancers.
To mark the centenary of the publication of folklorist Cecil Sharp's book The Sword Dances of Northern England they're going on a Grand Traipse on January 9.
They'll be calling at a series of local pubs with some like-minded Geordie lads, the Newcastle Kingsmen.
The dancers date back at least as far as the 1750s and used to tour the district calling on houses for food, drink and money from Christmas Eve through most of January.
This traipse was revived in 1994 in a modest way but next year it will be bigger, taking in Wentworth, Harley, Scholes, Thorpe Hesley, dancing outside a pub in each village, and ending up at Thundercliffe Grange.
There they will perform with the Kingsmen for the first time, To Slay a Bullock, a homage to sword dancing and Cecil Sharp.
Store turns a page
OXFAM at Broomhill is
obviously trying to get itself on the city's literary map. After poet John Birtwhistle's talks on Betjeman this week Sheffield author Marina Lewycka talks about her new book, We Are All Made of Glue, this Saturday.
Tickets cost 5 from the shop. Marina talks at 6.30pm.
Families wanted
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A new ITV entertainment show is looking for enthusiastic families of five to take part.
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