Dear Dancing Friends
The 68th White Rose Festival is over for another year, and we are now looking forward to our 69th Festival to be held on the 12 July 2025. Thank you to all who came and made it such a successful day, despite being indoors due to the wet weather. Ewan Galloway and his Scottish Dance Band will be playing for the afternoon festival and the evening dance again next year. Hopefully they will bring wonderful weather with them to match their music.
We are hopeful that Alan Harrison will play for us again. It is a real treat to have him playing for the Grand March and the Highland dances.
The feedback about the trial of the integrated programme of massed dances this year was very positive so will be offering it again in 2025. Dances are paired together in degree of difficulty, and some pairs of dances are aimed at the junior teams and beginners, and other pairs are more challenging for the experienced dancers. Team leaders can select as few or as many pairs of dances from the programme to suit the dancers in their team.
Date: Saturday, 12th July 2025
We hope you will all join us for our next annual festival and make it another wonderful occasion. Those of you who have been to one, will know what fun it is. Any questions or suggestions concerning the festival, please email us.
Deadlines: Team Bookings – 20th June. Meal Bookings – 30th June
Venue: The Gateways School , Harewood, Leeds , LS17 9LE
Location and practicalities
The school has excellent facilities. It is in a rural setting opposite the Harewood estate approximately 3 miles north of the Leeds city boundary on the Harrogate Road. The regular bus service (No. 36 bus timetable) between Leeds and Harrogate goes through Harewood. The entrance to Gateways is on the right a couple of hundred yards along the A659.
Yours sincerely,
Chairman, White Rose Festival Committee
