Come to the Ceilidh, 30th October, Hale Barns

 Harvest Hop Ceilidh, Friday 30/10/2026 

Holy Angels Church Hall, Hale Barns, WA15 0HG

What they say:

Another chance to dance to HobGoblin English Ceilidh Band in the Parish Hall. 

Doors open at 7pm with dancing from 7.30-10.30pm. 

Tickets £10 each (£25 for families with children), including a light hot supper. 

Raffle in aid of CAFOD with great prizes. 

Tickets available after the services, at Tuesday Tea and Chat or email harvesthop@talktalk.net 

What we say:

We played there last year - what a great dancing audience, a marvellous venue - and all for an excellent cause. What's not to like? Oh, and you get fed too!

Tickets: harvesthop@talktalk.net 

 

 

Hallowe'en Ceilidh, 31st October, New Mills Town Hall

 

🎃 HALLOWEEN CEILIDH 🎃 

in aid of Derbyshire Blood Bikes

Dust off your dancing shoes and dig out your fanciest fancy dress — HopGoblin with Ye Olde Vic Band are throwing a spook-tacular charity ceilidh, with *100% of proceeds go straight to Derbyshire Blood Bikes*, the volunteer-run urgent medical courier service that gets blood, samples and vital supplies to hospitals when it matters most.

Come for the dancing, stay for the cause — every ticket helps keep their bikes on the road.

👻 *Saturday 31st October*
🕖 Doors 7.00pm | Dancing 7.30 – 11.00pm
📍 New Mills Town Hall
🧛 Halloween fancy dress encouraged (not compulsory, but why wouldn't you?)
🍻 BYO drinks & snacks
🎟️ Tickets from https://wegottickets.com/f/26190

All abilities welcome, all dances called so no ceilidh experience necessary — just bring your boots, your broomstick, and your best moves. Let's dance for a brilliant cause! 🦇

In advance: Adults £12, 6-18yrs £7, u6 Free
On the door: Adults £14, 6-18yrs £8, u6 Free

Derbyshire Blood Bikes Hallowe'en Ceilidh

HopGoblin and Ye Olde Vic Band again join forces as HopGoblin Big Band for another spooky ceilidh at New Mills Town Hall on Saturday 31st October, 7.30pm - 11pm, doors open at 7pm.

Our Hallowe’en ceilidhs are always charity fundraisers, so get your Spooky Hallowe'en Glad-Rags on for an evening of dance and fun in support of Derbyshire Blood Bikes….and know that you’re supporting a very worthy cause.
FANCY DRESS....of course!
Bring your own drinks & snacks.

ALL profits to Derbyshire Blood Bikes https://www.derbyshirebloodbikes.org/

Tickets from WeGotTickets:

https://wegottickets.com/f/26190

 

Come to the ceilidh: 28th March 2026, Thelwall Parish Hall

Come to the ceilidh!

 
Saturday 28th March, Thelwall Parish Hall, WA4 2SX

 
Tickets from: brownies6thlymm@gmail.com

 

New Year's Eve Ceilidh SOLD OUT!

 Sorry to everyone who has missed out, there are no more tickets for our New Year’s Eve 2025 ceilidh, it’s completely SOLD OUT!

Edit: We've received messages asking if we could 'just squeeze one or two more in'.

I'm really sorry, but there's no way we can, apart from the space constraints, there's the safety aspect we have to consider.  
There'll be more ceilidhs in the New Year - keep an eye out here and on our Facebook page.

 

 

Hallowe’en Ceilidh – with thanks

Our Hallowe'en Ceilidh at New Mills Town Hall raised a tremendous total of £982.06.

Photos here.

 
This has been equally divided between The Seashell Trust and The Christie: £491.03 each.

Thanks to everyone who took part and supported the event.....and put 31st October 2026 in your diaries!

https://www.hopgoblin.co.uk/

 

New Year's Eve Ceilidh, Morley Green Club

 Our New Year's Eve Ceilidh is approaching, and tickets are going well - there's no better way to welcome in the New Year than having a leap around to a fun and lively ceilidh!

If you're intending coming and haven't bought your tickets yet it's best you get your skates on.

Due to the size of the venue, ticket numbers are limited, and when they're gone they really are gone!

Order your tickets from: 

https://wegottickets.com/event/679994

Please bring a generous contribution (enough for the size of your party) for the food share, sweet or savoury, up to you - it always works out well in the end!

You bring the food, we provide the cutlery & crockery.

Please don't bring your own drinks, there's a decent bar - and we really like to support the Morley Green Club.

So get your dancing shoes on - and let's dance in the New Year!

 

New Year's Eve Ceilidh 2025

Celebrate Hogmanay with a fun and bouncy ceilidh – and there’s no better way to mark the occasion!

Time to roll out the big guns once again: HopGoblin and Ye Olde Vic Band come together as HopGoblin Big Band to celebrate the turning of the year on, er, New Year’s Eve (obv), at the Morley Green Club, Mobberley Road, Wilmslow, SK9 5NT.

As in previous years, please bring a food contribution for the cold buffet food share, sweet or savoury, up to you – it’s always worked well in the past.

You provide the food, we provide cutlery & crockery.

Tickets from: https://wegottickets.com/event/679994

Please don’t bring your own drinks, Morley Green Club is an independent club that we really like to support - it has an excellent bar.

Ticket numbers are strictly limited, dictated by space and safety concerns.

 

Come to the ceilidh: 100 years of Woodcraft Folk, 23rd November

What they said:

Join us at the Carlton Club in Whalley Range for a Sunday night of celebration and dancing to commemorate 100 Years of Woodcraft Folk. The fabulous Ceilidh band, Hopgoblin will be providing the live music and the amazing Tibetan Kitchen are providing the food. There will be a raffle supported by the Coop, additional funds raised from the raffle and ticket sales will help support the activities and ongoing costs of Manchester district groups as well as Camp 100.

What we said:

We're more than a bit delighted to have been asked to help celebrate 100 years of the very fine Woodcraft Folk with a ceilidh - surely there's no better way to celebrate. Check out their 'About' page, it's a seriously impressive organisation. 

Tickets are available from Ticketsource

 

 

 

Come to the Spooky Hallowe'en Ceilidh!

Get your Spooky Hallowe'en Glad-Rags on for an evening of dance, fun and frolics at New Mills Town Hall, SK22 4AT on Saturday 1st November, 7.30pm - 11pm, doors open at 7pm.

FANCY DRESS!

Bring your own drinks & picnic.

Profits will be donated equally between The Christie https://www.christie.nhs.uk/ , and The Seashell Trust https://www.seashelltrust.org.uk/

Adults: £10, 6-18yrs £5, u6 Free

(On the door: Adults £13, 6-18yrs £6, u6 Free)

Tickets from:

https://wegottickets.com/event/669624

E: halloweenceilidh@hotmail.com

Everyone takes part at their own risk.

 

HopGoblin Big Band Charity Ceilidhs

 HopGoblin Ceilidh Big Band (HopGoblin + Old Vic Band) run charity fundraising ceilidhs at Hallowe’en.

In the past we’ve supported NW Air Ambulance, MacMillan, and Blythe House Hospice, donating around £1000 or more to each.

We’re now in the process of deciding which charity / charities to support for this years ceilidh which will be on 1^st November at New Mills Town Hall – watch this space!

This year's ceilidh:

Previous fundraisers: 

Topaz Ceilidh, Saturday 15th Feb

 Rob's excellent video of the band playing at Topaz in Stretford.

Come to the Ceilidh, Thelwall Parish Hall, 14th March

 Almost the Ides of March...but not quite!

We're playing a ceilidh at the Thelwall Parish Hall, Bell Lane, Thelwall, on Friday 14th March.

This is hosted by the lovely folk of 6th Lymm & 1st Culcheth Brownies.

Doors open at 7.30pm, ready for kick-off at 8pm.

Bring your own drinks and nibbles.

Tickets from brownies6thlymm@gmail.com

 

 

Come to the Ceilidh, 15th Feb at Topaz, Stretford

 Save the date: Saturday 15th February, and we're back at one of our favourite venues: Topaz Dance in Stretford.

Topaz Dance is located at 12-18 King Street, Stretford, Manchester, M32 8AE

Come on down!

 

For tickets: 0161 864 4093 / info@topazdance.co.uk

 

https://www.facebook.com/reel/3881244528815801

 

 HopGoblin at Topaz

 

Come to the ceilidh, 8th Feb, Lymm

We're delighted to be playing a ceilidh at the LymmYouth & Community Centre in aid of the Helen Margaret Owen Foundation.

This is a very worthy cause, you can read all about it by clicking on the link.

Briefly, it supports The Kirinya Centre in Uganda which provides education and support for over 150 pupils and teachers in their nursery and primary school. It is currently taking care of more than 70 orphans. 

Tickets are available from lindsay@webbmail.org.uk  ...but be quick, tickets are selling fast!

LymmYouth and Community Centre is located on Bridgewater Street, Lymm WA13 0AB

New Year's Ceildh 2024

 

Our New Year's Eve ceilidh is fast approaching, and tickets are going well - there's no better way to welcome in the New Year than having a leap around to a fun and lively ceilidh!

If you're intending coming and haven't bought your tickets yet it's best you get your skates on.

Due to the size of the venue, ticket numbers are limited, and when they're gone they really are gone!

Order your tickets from https://wegottickets.com/event/638199

Please bring a generous contribution (enough for the size of your party) for the food share, sweet or savoury, up to you - it always works out well in the end!

You bring the food, we provide the cutlery & crockery.

Please don't bring your own drinks, there's a decent bar - and we really like to support the Morley Green Club.

So get your dancing shoes on - and let's dance in the New Year!

 

Come to the Hallowe'en ceilidh, 26th October

Hallowe'en is on the horizon - which can only mean one thing: the hopgoblin hallowe'en ceilidh at new mills town hall!

this year's theme will be piratical  - so raid your wardrobes and see what you can come up with. 

there will be a piratical prize for the best fancy dress!

tickets from https://wegottickets.com/event/631938 

 

Upcoming HopGoblin Ceilidhs

Come to the ceilidh!

The band’s calendar for the rest of this year and beyond (so far):

13th July: Private party, Alstonefield

27th July: Private party, Hilton, Manchester

31st Aug: Private party, Sale

21st – 28th Sept: Big Band on tour, Slovenia

18th Oct: Public: Harvest Supper (no supper!), St George’s Church, Hyde. (Tickets from St George's Church).

19th Oct: Private party, Stockport

28th Oct, Public: HopGoblin Big Band Hallowe’en Ceilidh, New Mills Town Hall (Tickets from WeGotTickets soon)

2nd Nov: Private party, Marple

31st Dec: Public: HopGoblin Big Band New Year’s Eve Ceilidh, Morley Green Club, Wilmslow (Tickets from WeGotTickets soon)

2025

15th Feb: Public: Topaz Dance Studio, Stretford (Tickets from Topaz)

26th April: Wedding reception, Rosset, Chester

HopGoblin at Topaz Dance Studio in Stretford, one of our favourite venues!

Last night's fun

A couple of HopGoblin members, very ably assisted by Rachel on whistles, Howard on percussion, and Ursula on Anglo concertina, played an early evening ceilidh for some youngsters in Moss Side, Manchester. 

 
We thought that Rob, as caller, would have his work cut out - many of our audience didn't have English as a first language. 

 
We needn't have worried, Rob, as ever the pro-caller, did a fine job - no doubt made easier by the enthusiasm of the dancers.

 
What a lovely, friendly audience we had - they had fun, we had fun: win-win!

 

New Year’s Eve Ceilidh, 2023

New Year's Eve is on the horizon, tickets are already selling - but numbers are limited.

https://www.wegottickets.com/event/598209

If you want to come please don't delay, we'd hate to turn you away!

Once again we're at Morley Green Club, Wilmslow, WA16 7JQ

Please bring a contribution for the cold buffet food share - sweet or savoury, up to you!

You provide the food, we provide the crockery & cutlery.

Morley Green Club has a bar, so please don't bring your own.

Anyroadup, please join us if you can, dancing in the New Year!