Afan tafarn, the britannia, afan valley

Sweyn’s Ey journeyed east of our usual haunts and visited Cwmafan. Once again a few of our regular, reliable members were busy elsewhere but we still managed to field 8 dancers (Alex D, Alex H, Alison, Ben, Claire, Di, Keith and Nige). Siân, Kev and Roger provided the music. Alison Bayliss, Morwen and Rowan also came along to support us.
We started at The Afan Tavern where there were plenty of people outside to watch us perform all 7 dances on Ben’s ambitious set list (Banks of the Lea, Speed the Plough, Constant Billy (Headington), Valentines, Lads A Bunchum, Greensleeves and The Rose Tree). Several people watched the whole set and contributed to our collection box.
We moved on to The Brit where the customers and staff ventured outside to provide an enthusiastic audience who were keen to be photographed with us. We danced all of the dances on Ben’s set list, when he’d finalised it (Balance the Straw, Step and Fetch Her, Curly Boar, Beaux (Badby), Riggs of Doom, Vandals and Bonny Green Garters).
Kev, Di and Alison played some lovely tunes to finish the evening and see us on our way.
No sticks were broken this evening – don’t know how that happened!
Words by Nigel, photos by Claire & Alex H.