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Lake City Contra/Old Time Country Dance Every Thursday at Lake City Community Center 12531 - 28th Ave NE 8:00pm till 11:00pm, Free introductory "dance skills" workshop - NOW EVERY WEEK! - at 7:30pm Admission $8 (students & seniors $5, kids & first-time contradancers free). Please respect the health needs of many dancers and come fragrance-free. For more information call 206-525-0932.

Schedule of callers and bands:

Feb 4-Red alert! For maximum fun chase down the "Notorious" Big Band (Eden MacAdam-Somer & Larry Unger from Lincoln, MA, Sam Bartlett from Bloomington IN, and Mark Hellenberg from Ohio on fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin, & percussion) http://www.notoriousfolk.com/about.html Charismatic caller Cis Hinkle (Atlanta, GA) leads the quest.

Feb 11-NOTE SCHEDULE CHANGE! Claude Ginsburg (of "KGB"), Anita Anderson ("BAG O' Tricks" & "Zollo"), and Marni Rachmiel ("Contra Sutra") join forces to create a veritable feast of delicious dance music on fiddle, piano, flute & sax. Tom Wimmer calls dances full of flavor & pep.

Feb 18-Classic, elegant, & playful contras from "Penn & the Fixations", a rare convergence of NW masters: Cathie Whitesides, Laurie Andres, & Sandy Bradley stroking, tickling, & thrumming the fiddle, accordion, guitar, & piano in high style, with veteran caller Penn Fix (Spokane).

Feb 25-"Les Trois Capitaines (The Three Captains)" return for an evening of hell-for-leather French-Canadian music played by Seattle's young Acadian fiddler Devon Leger, with local stalwarts of the NW contra scene Clyde Curley (Bellingham) & Eric Schlorff (Olympia) on guitar, harmonica, accordion & feet. Caller Sandy Strand fits wonderful dances to the irresistible Quebecois and Acadian tunes.

Mar 4-You can count on the bad boys of Olympia's "RiffRaff" (Lindon & Evo Toney, Jim Erlandson, & Warren Argo on fiddles, mandolin, banjo & guitar) for a roaring good time! Adept & charming young caller Adina Gordon (Asheville, NC) keeps 'em in line.

Mar 11-5th Annual Contra Marathon - Benefit for the Northwest Folklife Festival! 3 hours of non-stop delight, featuring a cornucopia of wonderful Seattle musicians (coordinated by Cathie Whitesides) & 17 callers!!! For this event, "marathon" means the music is continuous, there are no walk-thru's & no breaks; dancers jump in & drop out at the ends of the lines at any time to rest, change partners, rehydrate, etc. Everyone is welcome! New (and less confident) dancers are encouraged to attend the free introductory workshop at 7:30. Designated "dance buddies" will offer their helping hands, and musicians are welcome to sit in throughout the evening.
Additional donations for the NW Folklife Festival will be greatly appreciated; representatives of NW Folklife will be there with info about the festival.
This year it will be the kick-off event for Cascade Promenade, a new 4-day multi-city dance extravaganza! http://www.cascadepromenade.org

Mar 18-"The Noodles" (Mark Roberts &Andrea Cooper - MA, Clyde Curley - Bellingham, Matt Hummel - Orcas Is) fiddles, banjo, flute, guitar, mandolin, piano, percussion; Woody Lane (Roseburg, OR) caller
Mar 25-Dale Russ & Mike Saunders Irish fiddle & guitar; Warren Argo calling
Apr 1-Mary Boyum, Bruce Larson, & Matti Mero cello, keyboard, mandolin, casablancas; Eric Curl caller
Apr 8-"Giblitz Fancy" (Paul Gitlitz, Brad Reynolds, Anita Anderson - Vancouver Is, Bellingham, Seattle) fiddle, mandolin, accordion, whistle, piano; Valerie Cohen caller
Apr 15-Joker's Wild" (Deb Kirkland, Dave Bartley, WB Reid) fiddle, mandolin, bouzouki, guitar, percussion; Marlin Prowell (Bellingham) caller
Apr 22-Larry Edelman (Denver CO), David Cahn, Molly Tenenbaum, Jere Canote fiddle, mandolin, accordion, banjo, guitar; LauraMe' Smith caller
Apr 29-"Rhythm Rollers" (Cathie Whitesides, Laurie Andres, WB Reid) fiddle, accordion, guitar, piano; Ron Buchanan (Pittsburgh, PA) caller
May 6-"Out of the Wood" (Kathy Bowman, Pat & Vicki Marron - Sand Point, ID) fiddle, mandolin, guitar, piano;
May 13-Karen Iglitzin, Dave Bartley, & WB Reid fiddles, mandolin, bouzouki, guitar; Tony Mates caller
May 20-Pete Sutherland (VT) & friends fiddle, guitar, piano; Will Mentor (VT) caller
May 27-"Bowin' Smoke" (Jamie Laval from Asheville NC, Ashley Broder from Ventura County CA, David Kaynor from Montague MA, Jeff Kerssen-Griep & Sue Songer from Portland OR) fiddles, mandolin, guitar, piano, percussion; Lynn Ackerson (El Cerrito, CA) caller
June 3-"Mac's Quackers" (Bob McQuillen - Peterborough, NH; Frank Blade & Warren Argo) accordion, piano, fiddle, guitar, banjo
June 10-"KGB" (Claude Ginsburg, Dave Bartley, Julie King) fiddle, mandolin, bouzouki, piano, percussion

Please read footprints for a brief history of this dance series.