Contra

Bring your instruments, your dances, your tunes, your snacks.  Coffee, tea & cider provided.

2nd Saturday contra dance and 5th Saturday square dance hosted by Port Townsend Community Dance.  Live Music at every dance and all dances taught.  All levels are welcome!

This month the Wharf Rats will play the tunes and Karen Marshall of Anacortes will call the dances..

A dance workshop for all dancers will start at 7:30, with the dance to be held from 8-10:30PM.

Admission is $6 for adults and $3 for ages 3-18, free for children under 3.

Treats/snacks appreciated!

For more information, see http://ptcommunitydance.blogspot.com.

From PT Community Dance:

For those of you who may not know, Dudley is pretty much the point person for the modern resurgence of contra dancing. Most of us learned from him, or from somebody else who learned from him, in direct succession. In 2009, the NEA awarded him a National Heritage Foundation grant for his lifetime’s work as a tradition bearer – thus putting contra dance on the nation’s cultural map. For more:

www.laufman.org

Dudley will also be giving a poetry reading at Northwind Arts Center in Port Townsend on Friday, July 1 (free).

National treasure Fred Park will be calling.

Come for cookies at 7:00pm.  A dance workshop for all dancers will start at 7:30, with the dance to be held from 8-11PM.

All dances taught and  all levels are welcome!

Admission is $10 for singles, $20 for families.

Treats/snacks appreciated!

For more information, call joyountolypen [dot] com (Jo Yount) at (360)385-0456.

Contra Dance at Black Diamond Community Hall each First Saturday (except for this January, where it's the second Saturday.)

7:30 workshop, 8:00 PM dance.

Live band and caller.  All dances taught, beginners welcome.

Requested Donation: $6 (under 18 - $2)

No need to bring a partner, there will be plenty of dancers to partner with.

For more info contact tomshindler [dot] us (Tom).

The New Year's Even Dance and Celebration is a benefit with all proceeds to the Quimper Grange.  BYOB (non-alcoholic) refreshments and desserts for the midnight celebration.  Tim Jenkins will call with live music from Ragged Mountain.

Squares, contras, mixers and related forms, with all dances taught.

Singles, couples and all ages welcome.

Suggested donation $6.00.

For more information, call edavidtgmail [dot] com (David Thielk) at (360)385-3308.

Port Townsend-based organization hosting monthly contra dances and occasional square dances.

Email: 

ptcommunitydancegmail [dot] com

From Paul Ferriz:

Come revel in the contra dance of the year NOT to be missed, as New England's caller extraordinaire George Marshall leads us into fits of hilarity to the accompaniment of SoCal's own Contra Band, the Syncopaths. This gala event will take place in the Quimper Grange Hall Friday, November 19, at 7:30. Admission is $12.00.

The Volunteers of ICE (VOICE) is sponsoring a rare and wonderful kind of dance at the Quimper Grange this Sunday afternoon.  We call it a Family Dance, because all ages are welcome, dances are not complicated but fun.

Please tell all of your friends who like to have fun. It is not a fund raiser, just a great time!

FAMILY CONTRADANCE AND HARVEST CELEBRATION

Come join the ICE Program for some good old-fashioned family fun! This is a community dance -- open to all! Come ready to dance and play music.

2nd Saturday contra dance and 5th Saturday square dance hosted by Port Townsend Community Dance.  Live Music at every dance and all dances taught.  All levels are welcome!

The PT/PA Sister City Association band will perform for the May 14th Community Contra Dance at the Quimper Grange. Dennis Schosboek on fiddle, Otto Smith on concertina and guitar, and George Yount on harmonica and ukulele will feature familiar old fiddle tunes with spirit, a sense of humor, and style to make your feet do what needs to be done. Local favorite Jeannie Murphy will call the dance.