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Newcomers lesson starts at 7:00pm (experienced dancers encouraged)
Dance starts at 7:30pm.
Each dance is taught. No partner necessary
(it’s traditional to dance each dance with a different partner).
Starshine
From Portland, Starshine brings the lively spirit of traditional country music to the forefront, inviting everyone to join in the fun! With an infectious energy, they guide audiences through vibrant dances, blending classic tunes with modern flair. Their concerts are not just performances; they’re community celebrations where music and movement intertwine.
Gordy Euler
Half of Shanghaied on the Willamette and co-director of the Portland Megaband, he has been calling dances all over the west coast for 15 years and he’s good.
We are still seeking new volunteers to help with dances in the fall! If you are interested in volunteering this fall, please see role descriptions and tell us how you would like to help by taking our volunteer survey at:
https://bit.ly/CorvallisContraVolunteering2022
For questions regarding contra dance volunteering, please contact Shari Ame at [email protected]
Come to play or listen.
All instruments and abilities welcome.
Session leaders David Greenberg and Maria Blair have developed a list of Scottish tunes, but feel free to bring your favorites to share.
The Scottish session is every 4th Sunday.
Online Song Circle
Share a song, lead a song, request a song, or listen as we go around the circle. Song Circle is free and open to all who wish to participate. Play your instrument or just sing.
The song circle is conducted on Zoom (you can download the app to your laptop, tablet or smart phone at https://zoom.us/ ). You can play or sing along as others perform with your microphone muted. If you plan to sing, please set your audio settings to
- Original sound for musicians: on (if this is available on your Zoom version)
- Automatically adjust microphone volume: off
- Echo cancellation: checked
- Suppress background noise: low (if this is available on your Zoom version)
You can access the audio settings in a Zoom meeting by pressing the ^ next to the microphone icon and clicking audio settings.
You can join the song circle by clicking here.
Newcomers lesson starts at 7:00pm (experienced dancers encouraged)
Dance starts at 7:30pm.
Each dance is taught. No partner necessary
(it’s traditional to dance each dance with a different partner).
This dance is at the Willamette Grange
about 7 miles south of Corvallis
on Hwy 99W at Greenberry Road
Errant Twizzlers
The Errant Twizzlers are a Northwest duo featuring Corvallis fiddler Shari Ame and Vancouver guitarist and cellist Jesse Schafer, who join forces to create a textured and playful soundscape, ranging from soaring and euphoric to dark and grumbly. Shari’s sweet, swinging drive, featuring influences spanning from Klezmer to French Canadian, Irish to Old-Time, join with Jesse’s lifelong interest in grooves, counterpoint, harmony and a mutual love of The Beatles, and you get one foot-stomping adventure.
William Watson
William Watson, a resident of Eugene, OR, danced his first contra in 1989 and began calling in Texas in 1992. Having called numerous contra events in cities coast-to-coast, William’s extensive experience and soothing voice project a calm confidence. His vigilant and thoughtful dance programming ensures a variety of figures, transitions, and sequences to entertain and support new dancers while offering the occasional challenge for the more advanced. His calling proficiency and sensitivities ensure everyone has a good time.
We are still seeking new volunteers to help with dances in the fall! If you are interested in volunteering this fall, please see role descriptions and tell us how you would like to help by taking our volunteer survey at:
https://bit.ly/CorvallisContraVolunteering2022
For questions regarding contra dance volunteering, please contact Shari Ame at [email protected]
Online Song Circle
Share a song, lead a song, request a song, or listen as we go around the circle. Song Circle is free and open to all who wish to participate. Play your instrument or just sing.
The song circle is conducted on Zoom (you can download the app to your laptop, tablet or smart phone at https://zoom.us/ ). You can play or sing along as others perform with your microphone muted. If you plan to sing, please set your audio settings to
- Original sound for musicians: on (if this is available on your Zoom version)
- Automatically adjust microphone volume: off
- Echo cancellation: checked
- Suppress background noise: low (if this is available on your Zoom version)
You can access the audio settings in a Zoom meeting by pressing the ^ next to the microphone icon and clicking audio settings.
You can join the song circle by clicking here.
Newcomers lesson starts at 7:00pm (experienced dancers encouraged)
Dance starts at 7:30pm.
Each dance is taught. No partner necessary
(it’s traditional to dance each dance with a different partner).
Bandwidth
Bandwidth brings together three of Portland’s contra dance music veterans, Gordy Euler (fiddle, piano), Keith Moe (fiddle), and Carl Thor (piano, mandolin) in a new configuration.
Their list of band affiliations reads like a “Who’s Who” of the Portland folk music scene, including: Hands4, Full Moon, The Steeltones, Shanghaied on the Willamette, Stepwise, Cascade Crossing, Celtinalia, Tunestruck, and, of course, the bodacious Portland Megaband. Be ready for a satisfying spectrum of contra dance music when these gents take to the stage.
Meadow Poujade
Formerly Lorie Bunyard from Coos Bay, teaches, calls and leads dances in SW Oregon.
We are still seeking new volunteers to help with dances in the fall! If you are interested in volunteering this fall, please see role descriptions and tell us how you would like to help by taking our volunteer survey at:
https://bit.ly/CorvallisContraVolunteering2022
For questions regarding contra dance volunteering, please contact Shari Ame at [email protected]
Come to play or listen.
All instruments and abilities welcome.
Session leaders David Greenberg and Maria Blair have developed a list of Scottish tunes, but feel free to bring your favorites to share.
The Scottish session is every 4th Sunday.
Online Song Circle
Share a song, lead a song, request a song, or listen as we go around the circle. Song Circle is free and open to all who wish to participate. Play your instrument or just sing.
The song circle is conducted on Zoom (you can download the app to your laptop, tablet or smart phone at https://zoom.us/ ). You can play or sing along as others perform with your microphone muted. If you plan to sing, please set your audio settings to
- Original sound for musicians: on (if this is available on your Zoom version)
- Automatically adjust microphone volume: off
- Echo cancellation: checked
- Suppress background noise: low (if this is available on your Zoom version)
You can access the audio settings in a Zoom meeting by pressing the ^ next to the microphone icon and clicking audio settings.
You can join the song circle by clicking here.
Newcomers lesson starts at 7:00pm (experienced dancers encouraged)
Dance starts at 7:30pm.
Each dance is taught. No partner necessary
(it’s traditional to dance each dance with a different partner).
Cucanandy
Based in Corvallis, Oregon, Cucanandy brings heart and passion to Celtic music, playing and singing tunes and songs from Scotland, Ireland and beyond. Katie Maxey sings in Gaelic as well as English, and is joined in harmony by Laureen Urey. Fiddle, cello, Irish flute, penny whistle and guitar fill our this eclectic mix of traditional and contemporary Celtic music. Other band members are Beth Brown and Van Fister.
We are still seeking new volunteers to help with dances in the fall! If you are interested in volunteering this fall, please see role descriptions and tell us how you would like to help by taking our volunteer survey at:
https://bit.ly/CorvallisContraVolunteering2022
For questions regarding contra dance volunteering, please contact Shari Ame at [email protected]
Online Song Circle
Share a song, lead a song, request a song, or listen as we go around the circle. Song Circle is free and open to all who wish to participate. Play your instrument or just sing.
The song circle is conducted on Zoom (you can download the app to your laptop, tablet or smart phone at https://zoom.us/ ). You can play or sing along as others perform with your microphone muted. If you plan to sing, please set your audio settings to
- Original sound for musicians: on (if this is available on your Zoom version)
- Automatically adjust microphone volume: off
- Echo cancellation: checked
- Suppress background noise: low (if this is available on your Zoom version)
You can access the audio settings in a Zoom meeting by pressing the ^ next to the microphone icon and clicking audio settings.
You can join the song circle by clicking here.
Newcomers lesson starts at 7:00pm (experienced dancers encouraged)
Dance starts at 7:30pm.
Each dance is taught. No partner necessary
(it’s traditional to dance each dance with a different partner).
Coriolis
Coriolis joins the musical forces of Victor Fiore (fiddle), Dave Hamlin (mandolin), and Jon Neff (guitar) to spin lively tunes and drive contra dance delight. Jon and Dave played together in The Steeltones, and both are long time members of the Portland Megaband. Victor played with Eugene’s Mad Robin before moving to Portland, where he has also played with the Portland Megaband.
Rich Goss
Most weekends, and sometimes on weekdays, I can be found in a dance hall somewhere calling, playing, doing sound, or contra dancing. I also play percussion once or twice a year with The Portland Megaband, a 75-80 member contra orchestra!!
The Pacific NW is such a terrific place to live! It’s great for calling and playing opportunities. In addition to established contra dances, I also enjoy calling for parties, weddings and community dances.
We are still seeking new volunteers to help with dances in the fall! If you are interested in volunteering this fall, please see role descriptions and tell us how you would like to help by taking our volunteer survey at:
https://bit.ly/CorvallisContraVolunteering2022
For questions regarding contra dance volunteering, please contact Shari Ame at [email protected]
Come to play or listen.
All instruments and abilities welcome.
Session leaders David Greenberg and Maria Blair have developed a list of Scottish tunes, but feel free to bring your favorites to share.
The Scottish session is every 4th Sunday.
Online Song Circle
Share a song, lead a song, request a song, or listen as we go around the circle. Song Circle is free and open to all who wish to participate. Play your instrument or just sing.
The song circle is conducted on Zoom (you can download the app to your laptop, tablet or smart phone at https://zoom.us/ ). You can play or sing along as others perform with your microphone muted. If you plan to sing, please set your audio settings to
- Original sound for musicians: on (if this is available on your Zoom version)
- Automatically adjust microphone volume: off
- Echo cancellation: checked
- Suppress background noise: low (if this is available on your Zoom version)
You can access the audio settings in a Zoom meeting by pressing the ^ next to the microphone icon and clicking audio settings.
You can join the song circle by clicking here.
Newcomers lesson starts at 7:00pm (experienced dancers encouraged)
Dance starts at 7:30pm.
Each dance is taught. No partner necessary
(it’s traditional to dance each dance with a different partner).
Golden Twine Stringband
Old Time Stringband brings effervescent fiddle tunes & folk dance to Squares, Contras, Weddings & private events up and down the Willamette Valley!
Kelly Tabor
Kelly Tabor is a caller and organizer from Portland, Oregon. She enjoys dances that play with elasticity of momentum and works to incorporate them at an accessible level..
We are still seeking new volunteers to help with dances in the fall! If you are interested in volunteering this fall, please see role descriptions and tell us how you would like to help by taking our volunteer survey at:
https://bit.ly/CorvallisContraVolunteering2022
For questions regarding contra dance volunteering, please contact Shari Ame at [email protected]
Newcomers lesson starts at 7:00pm (experienced dancers encouraged)
Dance starts at 7:30pm.
Each dance is taught. No partner necessary
(it’s traditional to dance each dance with a different partner).
The Nettles
The Nettles play improvisational music based on traditional tunes. Playing hard, they’re a Celtic jam band that makes audiences move and groove. Playing soft, they’re a lyrical folk-jazz group.
The Nettles blend traditional Irish and American music with modern spices. Laura Brophy’s fiddle forms strong melodies punctuated by soaring improvisation and intertwined with Kevin Nettle’s muscular guitar. The Nettles are propelled by the purring but powerful rhythm engine of Michael Proctor on bass and Tracy Daugherty on drums.
The Nettles play for festivals, dances, bars, and weddings on the West Coast. Their music retains the vital energy of its roots, but The Nettles’ unique interpretations add to The Tradition with every performance. The Nettles joke that “We never play the same tune once.”
Meadow Poujade
Formerly Lorie Bunyard from Coos Bay, teaches, calls and leads dances in SW Oregon.
We are still seeking new volunteers to help with dances in the fall! If you are interested in volunteering this fall, please see role descriptions and tell us how you would like to help by taking our volunteer survey at:
https://bit.ly/CorvallisContraVolunteering2022
For questions regarding contra dance volunteering, please contact Shari Ame at [email protected]