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Our hall has strict capacity limits. We occasionally need to limit entry due to high attendance.

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Schedule of bands and callers:

• Please note: the PNA Farmer's Market is in full swing. The parking lot may be more crowded than usual, especially if you arrive before 8:00 pm.

• Jul 9 - Little Big Cat: Miche Baker-Harvey, fiddle, Hugh Fraser - banjo, Dale Brubecker - guitar and piano. Caller Mike Schuh.
• Jul 16 - Les Pieds Chauds (that's Hot Feet, in French): Marcy Kubbs – piano, Sono Hashasaki – fiddle, Bill Correll – mandolin, Joe Micheals – bass. You'll hear plenty of music from Quebec, with some other tunes from New England for variety. They have straight-forward jigs, rhythmic groove tunes, barn-burning reels, smooth tunes, and some unclassifiable items to move your feet. Rich Goss calls.
• Jul 23 - Tinker's Dram consists of Jalaine Madura on guitar, Howard Good on button accordion, Brid Nowlan on fiddle, Kate O'Laughlin on fiddle, and Cheryl Phillips Adcock on bass. Laura Me' Smith calls.
• Jul 30 - La Famile Leger – they really are family! They are Louis Leger (button accordion & fiddle), Devon Leger (fiddle & feet), Dejah Leger (piano & feet), and Barbara Richert (guitar). They'll play music from the backwoods and kitchen parties of Quebec and New Brunswick. Tony Mates calls.
• Aug 6 - Cookies: Miche Baker-Harvey – fiddle, Eric Hardee – hammered dulcimer, mandolin, Carmen Ficarra – guitar, bass, Jean Geiger – banjo, guitar, Cathy Britell – autoharp, bass. Old time music with lots of melody and many, many strings. Caller TBD.
• Aug 13 - Lift Ticket - Rex Blazer - fiddle, T.J. Johnson - mandolin, & Russell Shumsky - percussion. Well-phrased tunes played in classic contra dance style, with some melody, harmony, syncopation, and rhythm from the instruments that don't normally play those parts. Woody Lane calls.
• Aug 20 - Jokers Wild – Deb Kirkland - fiddle, Dave Bartley - mandolin, guitar and cittern, W.B. Reid - guitar, fiddle, banjo-guitar. Unmistakable melodies on fiddle, fantastic rhythm on guitar, and scintillating sounds on all sorts of other instruments. Versatile musicians, original compositions, with a combination of old-time, blues and eastern European styles. Wendy Graham calls.
• Aug 27 - RiffRaff: Josie and Lindon Toney on fiddle, Jim Erlandson on mandolin and other gadgets, Warren Argo on guitar. They play all kinds of tunes and have a good time doing it. Sandy Strand calls.
• Sep 3 - Adam Hurt (fiddle, banjo) and Beth Hartness (guitar), both of North Carolina are in town prior to Adam teaching at American Banjo Camp. They join up with Dave Leddel (banjo) to play a mix of old-time Appalachian, New England and Celtic music. They play tunes with involved melodies and plenty of chordal movement to keep the dancers both engaged and aware of where they are in the dance. Caller TBD.
• Sep 10 - RetroSpectacles: Josie Toney - fiddle, Andrew Foster - fiddle, Scotty Leach - piano, fiddle, Ethan Jodziewicz - bass, guitar, mandolin. Carol Piening calls.
• Sep 17 - Spare Parts is Bill Matthiesen on piano, Liz Stell on flute, and Ruthie Dornfeld on fiddle. Caller TBD.
• Sep 24 - Soda Rock Ramblers: Linda Askew, guitar; David Cahn, accordion, fiddle, bass; Larry Edelman, mandolin, fiddle, octave mandolin; Scott Mathis, mandolin, manjo-uke, guitarron. They play a lot of tunes from the midwest and the southwest, plus quite a few originals. Dance to all of this, and pick up a copy of their new CD. Warren Argo calls.
• Oct 1 - TBD.
• Oct 8 - Wild Hair: Betsy Branch - fiddle, Todd Silverstein - whistles, Jeff Kerssen-Griep - guitar, percussion, Mark Douglass - piano. Caller TBD.