Program: Virtual Schedule 2021

Hey Days 2021 will run for four full days, opening on Thursday June 17, 2021 at 10:00 am PDT and closing after a social gathering on Sunday evening (PDT), June 20.

We will take advantage of the virtual environment to connect more dancers from around the world with many more staff and individual sessions than we would normally be able to do. Social dance will take a back seat to presentations, music workshops, videos, singing, games, and a wide variety of social activities.

Click here for details on workshops, presentations, and social events

Schedule PDF

All times are in PDT (i.e., California time)

During most 15-minute breaks we will show video from dance groups around the world and past Mendocino/Hey Days camps

  • Mendocino Retrospective Thursday at 11:15
  • Hey Days at The Bishop's Ranch 2011-2018 Thursday at 12:45
  • Lichfield Festival and Historical Tea and Dance Society Thursday at 14:15
  • Dancing in Brisbane Australia Thursday at 15:45
  • Kent UK Friday at 11:15
  • Victoria BC Friday at 12:45
  • Hey Days Morris Friday at 14:15
  • Chestnut / France Friday at 15:45
  • The Heather and The Rose (Oregon) Saturday at 12:45
  • Big Choreography Saturday at 14:15
  • Lemmings Reprieve UK Saturday at 15:45
  • Berkeley Morris Sunday at 11:15
  • Germany Sunday at 12:45
  • ECD in Japan Sunday at 15:45

Thursday June 17
10:00-11:15 Welcome Gathering: A Chance to Reminisce
11:30-12:45 Brooke Friendly: Positional Calling Workshop OR Kate Barnes: Accompanying ECD
13:00-14:15 Shira Kammen: Singing OR Renée Camus: English Clogging Past to Present
14:30-15:45 Dave Bartley: Tune Composing OR Carol Marsh: History of Dance and Music Notation
16:00-17:15 Jeff Warner: Old Time Fun and Frolic
17:15 Wine Tasting Party (BYOB)
18:00-19:15 Virtual ECD (and Abbots Bromley for All!) with Sharon Green and The Whoots (Charlie Hancock, Jim Oakden, Shira Kammen)
19:15 on Games

Friday June 18
10:00-11:15 Shira Kammen: Singing
11:30-12:45 Brooke Friendly: Positional Calling Workshop OR Kate Barnes: Accompanying ECD
13:00-14:15 Paul Hutchinson: Tune Development OR Matt Simons: Women in the Cotswold Morris Revival
14:30-15:45 Dave Bartley: Tune Composing OR Linda Tomko: Early 18th-Century Dance Cousins
16:00-17:15 Gene Murrow: History and Sources of English Country Dance Music
17:15 Afternoon Tea Party
18:00-19:15 All Request ECD Music Session with Rebecca King
19:15 on Movies

Saturday June 19
10:00-11:30 5 Things with guest Alex Cumming
11:30-12:45 Brooke Friendly: Positional Calling Workshop OR Kate Barnes: Accompanying ECD
13:00-14:15 Paul Hutchinson: Tune Development OR Jeremy Carter-Gordon: Continental Longsword
14:30-15:45 Dave Bartley: Tune Composing OR Alex Cumming: The Songcatcher-Olive Dame Campbell
16:00-17:15 Gene Murrow: The Invented Style
17:15 Chocolate Party
18:00-19:15 Couple Dance Ball
19:15 on Camper Gathering - if you have something to share, please contact Alisa Dodson at alisa@capercat.com

Sunday June 20
10:00-11:15 Morris Dance Music Session with Luke Hillman and Berkeley Morris
11:30-12:45 Brooke Friendly: Positional Calling Workshop OR Shira Kammen: Singing
13:00-14:30 Odd Sunday Virtual ECD with Kalia Kliban and Jon Berger, Rebecca King
14:30-15:45 Jeff Warner: Songs of Sailors and the Sea
16:00-17:15 Brad Foster: BACDS English Week at Mendocino-The Founding Years
17:30-18:00 Name That (Playford 1651) Tune with Jim Oakden and Shira Kammen
18:00 Farewell Happy Hour



Photo by Brooke Friendly