Canyon Contra Dance

CANYON CONTRA DANCE
Welcome Contra Dancers!

Once each month on the first Saturday lovers of contra dancing, skilled and beginner alike, gather at the tiny community
of Canyon, California for 3 hours of joyful dancing in a charming schoolhouse under the redwoods and alongside a
bubbling creek.

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 6:30 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.

This month's schedule:

(Note: Valuable door prize awarded March 6)

Saturday, March 6, 2010:

Caller: Mavis McGaugh is back with us!
Band: "Failure to Disperse"--Mark Kartman, guitar; Carol Denny,
fiddle; Kerry Parker, fiddle; Rodney Freeland, mandolin.

Future dates: April 3, Caller: Tina Fields. Band: Art Peterson,
Jonathan Goodwin & Pat Ryan.

Time & place: Canyon School, 8-11pm; potluck 6:45, beginner teach
7:45. Suggested donation $7 adult, child free with adult/parent. Student $5 or pay as you can. Half admission fee goes to the school, half to the performers.

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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Photos 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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Photos from previous dances
Canyon potluck recipes
Description of contra dance figures
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