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All levels Welcome!
All levels Welcome!
A Special Free Contra Dance
cosponsored by the OSU Swing & Blues Club and CFS
with
The Nettles playing
Noah Grunzweig calling
Please bring your friends and lets show the OSU campus a great dance. Feel free to bring light refreshments or food to share if desired.
All levels Welcome!
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First Sunday Vocal Jam Circle
Vocal improv singing for all skill levels and ages.
All levels Welcome!
Wild Hair
Popular foursome Wild Hair stirs up contra dance floors with addictively propulsive fiddle tunes from several traditions, including home-grown. Swingy fiddler Betsy Branch, multi-instrumentalist Todd Silverstein (pennywhistle, bouzouki, sax), percussive guitarist Jeff Kerssen-Griep and syncopacious pianist Mark Douglass sync up a harmonious, giddy-hot ensemble sound that’s feisty and grooved, creatively graceful, ferocious, and funfunfun, with contagious good humor tailored to your feet. You can sample tracks from their CD “Buzz Cuts” at CDBaby.com.
Susan Downs calling
Beginners lesson starts at 7:30pm (experienced dancers welcome) dance starts at 8:00pm
Each dance is taught. No partner necessary (it’s traditional to dance each dance with a different partner)
No potluck tonight
First and Third Saturdays of the month except July, August. Occasional special dances.
All levels Welcome!
CFS annual Corvallis Contra Weekend
is sold-out
The closing dance Sunday evening is open to the public
Latter Day Lizards
Joyride
Susan Michaels
Steve Zakon-Anderson
A special public dance capping the CFS Contra Weekend. Teaching starts at 7:00, with the dance proper at 7:30 (that’s a bit early)
Latter Day Lizards
Joyride
Susan Michaels
Steve Zakon-Anderson
Beginners lesson starts at 7:00pm (experienced dancers welcome) dance starts at 7:30pm
Each dance is taught. No partner necessary (it’s traditional to dance each dance with a different partner)
All levels Welcome!
Hands4
Since 2004, Hands4 has delivered its high-energy music to dance halls throughout the Pacific Northwest, and in Texas during a February, 2006, tour. Combining seldom-heard traditional tunes with originals by band members and other musicians, Hands4 has created a unique blend of music that is definitely not your usual contra tunes.
With their carefully-constructed tune sets featuring mostly original music, their diverse instrumentation, and their well-crafted harmonies and arrangements, Hands4 brings a fresh flavor and excitement to the dance hall wherever they play.
Laurel Thomas calling
Laurel Thomas started calling contra dances at Portland’s open mike night in 2008. Since then, she has called for the regular dances in Portland, Eugene, Corvallis, Bend, Vancouver, Olympia and Tacoma. She has also called at Salem’s Camp Westwind. Dancers appreciate her clear teaching, articulate calling and her ability to choose fun, lively dances that have good flow. “In a mixed crowd my goal for the evening is not only to call dances that are accessible to beginners yet still fun for more experienced dancers, but also to make sure that there is an element of challenge built into the program that allows newcomers to increase their skills.”
Beginners lesson starts at 7:30pm (experienced dancers welcome) dance starts at 8:00pm
Each dance is taught. No partner necessary (it’s traditional to dance each dance with a different partner)
Potluck: There is usually a pre-dance potluck
First and Third Saturdays of the month except July, August. Occasional special dances.
All levels Welcome!
All levels Welcome!
Visit the Imagine Coffee Facebook
First Sunday Vocal Jam Circle
Vocal improv singing for all skill levels and ages.