Schedule – Toby Bennett

26-27 February 2019 – Common Treads event (teaching, seminar, performance) at Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
2-3 March 2019 – Workshops and Performance, Aberdeen
5 March 2019 – “Up Next” gala, National Theatre, London
30 March 2019 – Workshop day for Ryknild Rabble, Lichfield
21 July 2019 – Stainsby Festival with Stepling
2-9 August 2019 – Sidmouth Folk Festival with Scott Hartley and Instep Research Team
21-23 August 2019 – Whitby Folk Week with Stepling
21 September 2019 – Duffield Arts Festival with Stepling

14 February 2018 – The Old Oak, Horsley Woodhouse with Francis | Bennett | Hartley
17 February 2018 – Workshop for Rabble Cloggies in Lichfield
5-7 March 2018 – Irish World Academy of Music and Dance teaching at Limerick University
6-7 May 2018 – Upton Folk Festival with Stepling
29 June – 1 July 2018 – Newcastleton Traditional Music Festival with Francis | Bennett | Hartley
11-15 July 2018 – North Atlantic Fiddle Convention, Aberdeen, with Francis | Bennett | Hartley
3-10 August 2018 – Sidmouth FolkWeek with Instep Research Team
14 October 2018 – Horsham Folk Club with Stepling
15 October 2018 – The Bell Inn, Bath with Stepling, Facebook event
21 October 2018 – Stanstead Abbots Ceilidh Society Concert with Stepling, Facebook event
23 October 2018 – Shakespeare’s, Sheffield with Stepling, Facebook event, Book tickets
24 October 2018 – The Slaughtered Lamb, London with Stepling, ALBUM LAUNCH Book tickets
26 October 2018 – The Queen’s Head, Belper with Stepling, Facebook event

18 Feb 2017 – Dancing England performing at the revival of this national showcase of English traditional dance with Scott Hartley
10 April 2017 – Full Moon Club, Shap Fell Bothy with Francis | Bennett | Hartley and Sue Allan
11 April 2017 – Lakeland Fiddlers’ Session, Staveley Beer Hall, Cumbria with Francis | Bennett | Hartley and Sue Allan
12 April 2017 – Cumbrian “Merrie Neet” with Francis | Bennett | Hartley and Sue Allan, Carlisle
19-20 May 2017 – Shepley Spring Festival with Stepling
1 July 2017 – Step Up North, Richmond North Yorkshire, workshops and performance
18 July 2017 – St Neots Folk Club with Stepling
6-11 Aug 2017 – Sidmouth Folk Week with Instep Research Team and Scott Hartley
14-15 Aug 2017 – Broadstairs Folk Week with Stepling
20-22 Aug 2017 – Whitby Folk Week with Stepling
26-27 Aug 2017 – Shrewsbury Folk Festival with Scott Hartley
2 Sept 2017 – London Folk Festival with Stepling

6 August 2016 – Bath Folk Festival with Stepling
8-10 July 2016 – Priddy Folk Festival with Stepling
2 July 2016 – Harwich Festival of the Arts with Stepling
13-14 Feb 2016 – Lancashire Wallopers Weekend of Clog teaching Advanced Lakeland Step Dance workshop
6-7 Feb 2016 – Keswick Theatre by the Lake Teaching two workshops (beginners Saturday, improvers masterclass Sunday) with Carolyn Francis
1-3 Feb 2016 – Irish World Academy of Music and Dance teaching at Limerick University
25 Jan 2016 – Roehampton University Lecture and workshop to BA Dance students on English step dancing
16 Jan 2016 – Derbyshire Volunteers Traditional Mid-winter Revels with Stepling

2-4 October 2015 – Derby Folk Festival
9 August 2015 – Lake District Folk Weekend with Carolyn Francis and Scott Hartley, workshop and performance
3 August 2015 – Stepling at Sidmouth Folk Week (plus workshop)
13 June 2015 – Derbyshire Eco Centre with Nick Wray
22-25 May 2015 – Chippenham Folk Festival with Scott Hartley
11 January 2015 – Stepling at Hitchin Folk Club

18-22 August 2014 – Whitby Folk Week with Carolyn Francis
16 August 2014 – Stepling at Tribal Earth Summer Gathering
9-11 August 2014 – Broadstairs Folk Week with Carolyn Francis and Scott Hartley
August 2014 – Sidmouth Folk Week with Scott Hartley and INSTEP
21 July 2014 – Stepling at Green Note, Camden with Said the Maiden
28-29 June 2014 – English Country Music Weekend with Scott Hartley and Carolyn Francis
14 May-18 June 2014 – Lakeland Step Dance Course at Cecil Sharp House
10 May 2014 – May in a Day at Cecil Sharp House performance and workshop for EFDSS
27 April 2014 – Lakeland Music and Step Dance Workshop, with Carolyn Francis, Jackson’s Lane, London
29 March 2014 – Lakeland Step Dance Workshop for the Westmorland Step and Garland Dancers, Kendal, Cumbria
24 March 2014 – Green Note, Camden with Jo May and Debs Chalmers: the new, as yet unnamed, trio! Support for The Will Pound Band
9 March 2014 – One Day Clog Workshop for NYFTE, National Youth Folklore Troupe of England
25-27 February 2014 – Teaching at Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, Limerick
24 February 2014 – Green Note, Camden with Jo May and Debs Chalmers: the new, as yet unnamed, trio! Support for Jess and Richard Arrowsmith
13 February 2014 – Islington Folk Club – Clog and Fiddle with Scott Hartley

August 14-16, 2013 – Broadstairs Folk Week. Clog and Fiddle with Carolyn Francis of Striding Edge (http://www.striding-edge.org/)
August 7-9, 2013 – Sidmouth Folk Week with Instep Research Team, and fiddle players Carolyn Francis and Scott Hartley
July 12-14, 2013 – Furness Tradition Festival Clog and Fiddle with Carolyn Francis.
June 25, 2013 – Tales and Trails event with Taffy Thomas, Storyteller’s Garden, Grasmere.
May 24-28, 2013 – Chippenham Folk Festival Clog and Fiddle with Scott Hartley. http://www.chippfolk.co.uk/
Jan 2013 – With Striding Edge in Cumbria with Carolyn Francis

2012 – Trad Academy, London: Flatfooting class
2012 – East Anglian Traditional Music Trust, Traditional Music Day, Stowmarket, Suffolk: performance
2012 – William Irwin Weekend, Langdale, Cumbria: performance with Alex Fisher (clog) and Carolyn Francis (Fiddle)
2012 – Instep Research Team, Cecil Sharp House, London: Lakeland step dance Workshop
2011 – Shrewsbury Folk Festival: Main stage show ‘Clogfest’ as part of Stony Steppers
2010 – Kit & Cutter Folk Club, Deptford, London: performance with Keith Kendrick
2009 – Lancashire Walloper’s Weekend: advanced Lakeland workshop
2008 – Shrewsbury Folk Festival: workshop and dancing with Stony Steppers
2008 – Workshop Stony Stratford: open workshop for Stony Steppers
2007 – Chippenham Folk Festival: workshops and dancing with Stony Steppers
2005 – Bridgnorth Folk Festival: with Stony Steppers

Founder member of Touchwood
Nottingham University Folk Dance Society (clog, rapper, Cotswold morris)
Lady of the Lake Festival, Spokane, Washington, USA: performance and workshops
Chippenham Folk Festival with Touchwood (twice): performance and workshops
Ludus Dance, Lancaster: Appalachian Clogging workshop
Inter Varsity Folk Dance Festival: various years, various performances and workshops, English clog, Appalachian Clogging, West Coast Swing