Welcome Contra Dancers!
Each month a different caller and band entertain the assembled dancers who have escaped to this rustic hideaway for an evening of fun and exercise. We welcome new dancers, families, children, singles, couples. The tradition is to change partners for each dance, and no one is left out.
For beginners and older dancers rusty on contra dancing, we offer a simple teaching period at 7:30, a half-hour ahead of the regular dance start time.
There are two short intermission periods, at 9pm and 10pm. The dance runs 8-11pm. There is also a potluck supper at 7:00 for anyone who would like to have an evening meal before the dancing begins. In congenial weather, the meal may be served outdoors under the trees.
Once again our 10pm door prize will be awarded to one lucky dancer.
Saturday, June 2, 2012:
Dance Caller:
Michael Fynan.
Band:
The New Old Buzzards.
Caller Mike Fynan attended his first contra dance twelve years ago and quickly became hooked on the joy of contra dance. To share this joy he began managing the monthly North Bay Country Dance Society's Sebastopol contra dance in 2006 and called his first dance in 2009. Mike especially likes working with beginners and those who are new to social dancing and he calls contra dances regularly in the San Francisco Bay area. When not dancing or calling, Mike enjoys Scottish Country Dancing as well as performing modern precision clogging with the Redwood Country Cloggers.
The New Old Buzzards band is a marvellous blending of the prodigious musical talents of Sarah Wilson (fiddle/guitar), David Brown (fiddle/guitar) and Stefan Curl (banjo). They are no strangers to Bay Area dance venues including Canyon, and with good reason. They will play Southern old-time dance tunes, the ones that go well with contra dancing.
Time &
place: Canyon School, 8-11pm; potluck 7:00,
beginner teach
7:45. Suggested
donation $7 adult, no charge for child with adult/parent. Student $5 or pay as you
can. Admission fees support the performers and the school.
Canyon Community is about halfway between Moraga and the Montclair
District
of Oakland, on Pinehurst Road. Watch for the School Crossing signs and
park in the spaces near the entrance, alongside the fenced
schoolyard
or in a convenient space off the road. You may wish to bring
a flashlight
because the road is unlighted. See map here.
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and found
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from previous dances
(Pinehurst Road follows the route of the former Sacramento Northern Railway. The Sacramento Northern was an electric interurban trolley line from the Bay Area to Sacramento and continuing to Oroville and Chico. Passenger service on this line ended in 1941, while freight service continued until 1956.--Yorkman Lowe.)
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