(Last update: November 16, 2024)
Emerald City Contra Dance
with the Seattle Folklore Society present
Contra dancing nearly every Friday at the
Phinney Neighborhood Center
6532 Phinney Avenue North, Seattle (98103)
in the Community Hall of the brick building, near the lower parking lot
Beginner’s workshop at 7:00 pm (or thereabouts). Dance from 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm.
We no longer require masks while dancing – however, we still encourage you to wear them if you can. We still require you to sign a registration form (for contact tracing) and waiver upon entry. If you have attended a dance elsewhere, you’ll still need register at this dance as well.
We also recommend that you keep up-to-date with vaccinations. We may reinstate mask and vaccination requirements at a later date, if COVID conditions change or we receive more reports of illness within the community.
– As always, we suggest you check Public Health – Seattle & King County for more information about COVID.
– For information about COVID practices and cases from earlier dances, check here.
Admission prices (cash, check or Venmo only):
– Sliding scale $10-$20.
– Students $5 with a school ID.
– Free for people under the age of 16.
Admission limited to 125 people. This total includes paying & non-paying dancers, musicians, callers, children, and adults acting like children. (In short, everyone.)
If this is your first contra dance ever you’ll get a coupon for free admission to your next dance.
Coupon redemption limited to first five coupons on any single night.
Follow us on Facebook. There’s a Lost and Found “Featured” file on that page where you can find items that you left behind at the dance.
Please help the PNA achieve their sustainability goals. Consider carpooling, walking, biking, or riding the bus to the dance. If you drive, please park in the PNA parking lots.
All dances taught. No partner necessary.
Light, comfortable clothing recommended.
Please join us without perfumes, colognes, aftershave, scented lotions, etc.
More information for dancers.
Information for bands and callers.
Past caller set lists.
Bands and callers: please contact us at EmeraldCityContra@pobox.com
For information not already posted here: 206-440-9839 or EmeraldCityContra@pobox.com
Enough of the suggestions, disclaimers, and notifications. Here is what you really want to know…
Schedule of bands and callers:
Callers will use the terms “larks” and “robins” for dance roles.
- November 22 Sage Thrashers is Hayden Stern (fiddle), Jesse Partridge (piano), & Patrick Gunning (guitar). Susan Petrick calls.
- November 29 Hummingbird is Koren Wake on fiddle and viola da gamba, Melissa Coffey on woodwinds, spaceship, and fiddle, Nick Leininger on guitar. Lindsey Dono calls.
- December 6 No dance – The PNA sets up their annual Winterfest that Friday. We’ll take a break that night and see you the next week.
- December 13 Try-Works – Penka Jane Culevski on fiddle and Alex Sturbaum on guitar. Isaac Banner calls.
- December 20 Heliotrope is Robin Brown on fiddle; Paul Englesberg on flute(s), concertina, whistle, saxophone; Greg Sherman on upright bass; Michael Hobart on guitar. Abigail Hobart calls.
- December 27 Clever Hans is Hayden Stern (fiddle), Patrick Gunning (guitar), and Dana Christie (bass). Victoria Fox calls.
- January 3 The Hat Band.
- January 10 Natterjack – Hayden Stern on fiddle, Ezra Jane Landsman on guitar, and Alex Sturbaum on accordion.
- January 17 To be determined.
- January 24 Rufous: Melissa Coffey (flute, whistles, & spaceship); Manda Brown (fiddle); Nick Leinginger (guitar).
- January 31 SonoOnos is Sono Hashisaki and Olga Hauptman on fiddle, Laurie Andres on accordion, and Jay Finkelstein on guitar.
- February 7 – No dance at Phinney. We take the night off to dance at Supersonic in Ballard. Check here for information about the dance weekend.