Round Chapel

Gather your brood and join Hackney’s ceilidh band Cut A Shine for its afternoon of family friendly St Patrick’s barn dancing. The bandmembers will teach you and the little’uns all of the crucial ceili moves and ensure that everyone is kept fueled with traditional Irish stew and champ (vegan option available). Things will round off at 3.30pm with a disco where the kids can show off all their newly-learned Celtic choreography. Oh, and there’s a fully stocked bar of Guinness and whiskey for the grown ups. 

Hackney’s very own ceilidh band Cut A Shine is back with another of its seasonal dances in the beautiful Round Chapel on Glenarm Road. Its St Patrick’s Day celebration promises a night of dancing as well as food stalls selling traditional Irish stew and a bar stocked with enough stout and whiskey for even the most hesitant dancers to join in the ‘barn dance proper’ which will kick off at 9:30pm (there’s low key dancing from 8pm to help you learn the moves).