Contra Dance Guilford Grange Greensboro – TBA

GENERAL INFO
 
– No partner necessary, No experience necessary
– If you can walk, you can contra dance
– If new, join in the fun lesson at 7:30
– Bring clean, soft soled shoes with you to change into to protect floors
– Bring friends for more fun!
– Community dancing for all ages
– High energy, live music
– Everyone makes mistakes but nobody cares
– The more you do it, the easier and more fun it becomes
– Treat one another with care and respect, smile and have a good time
 
General admission $10 (Members $8)
Full time students 23 and under $6 (Members $5).
Free Lesson 7:30 – 8
Dance 8 – 11:00 pm
 
Fiddle & Bow Country Dancers
www.feetretreat.com
 
Fiddle & Bow Country Dancers is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
 
Location: Guilford Grange Hall. 4909 Guilford School Rd, Greensboro, NC.
*Note – Despite what internet mapping sites may show, Guilford School Rd is NOT accessible from Guilford College Rd.
 
Directions: Traveling in either direction on I-40, take Exit 213 (Guilford College Rd). At the end of the ramp, turn right and continue about a mile until you cross railroad tracks at West Market Street. In 100 more feet, turn left onto Lindley Rd. Go 4 tenths mi., then turn right onto Guilford School Rd. The Grange is the last building on the right

Contra Dance Salem College – Tim Smith & Eileen Regan of Big Celtic Fun Band with Caller Charlotte Crittenden

On Sunday, March 3. at Salem College, members of the well known band, Big Celtic Fun come to energize the dancing for us! Hear some great Irish and contra dance music with Tim Smith (flute, tin whistle, concertina, piano and a vocal or two), Eileen Regan (fiddle, guitar, Celtic harp and vocals). Good music like this makes the dancing so much fun!
 
CHARLOTTE CRITTENDEN
Charlotte is famous in Brasstown for being able to do everything from call a great contra dance to build a rock wall to shear a sheep! She is fast becoming a popular regional caller, calling at Old Farmer’s Ball, River Falls, Grey Eagle, Chattanooga, and Sautee. Charlotte is also assistant coordinator for Winter Dance Week and assistant instructor for many Folk School classes.
General Info:
– No partner necessary, No experience necessary
– If you can walk, you can contra dance
– If new, join in the fun lesson at 7:30
– Bring clean, soft soled shoes with you to change into to protect floors
– Bring friends for more fun!
– Community dancing for all ages
– High energy, live music
– Everyone makes mistakes but nobody cares
– The more you do it, the easier and more fun it becomes
– Treat one another with care and respect, smile and have a good time
 
Salem students and faculty $3
General admission $10 (Members $8)
Full time students 23 and under $6 (Members $5)
FREE Lesson 7:30
Dance 8-11pm with short break in middle
 
Salem College: Bryant Hall
790 E. Salem Ave, Winston-Salem, NC
I40 Business exit is closed!!!
Access through I40, Highway52 South to Research Parkway, then turn left and then left on Rams and left on Salem.
(Bryant Hall houses the gym, fitness center and Salem Commons)
Enter from Salem Avenue near the athletic fields on the south
 
Fiddle & Bow Country Dancers Website: www.FeetRetreat.com
Follow us on our Facebook Page: Fiddle and Bow Country Dancers
Join our Facebook Group: Fiddle and Bow Contra Dancers
 
Fiddle & Bow Country Dancers is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

Contra Dance Salem College – Hushpuppies and Caller Jack Mitchell

Though they have a lot of fun with it, the Hushpuppies are very serious about their music and for each of them collecting, playing and singing old-time music occupies much of their time and energy. All four play several instruments well and all four are unaffected, natural singers.
What truly sets the Hushpuppies apart and makes them an outstanding revival old-time band is that they have integrated all sources of music and folded it all into a natural style of their own.
Jack Mitchell is a favorite experienced out of town caller who calls at many dances in state and out.
– No partner necessary, No experience necessary
– If you can walk, you can contra dance
– If new, join in the fun lesson at 5:30
– Bring clean, soft soled shoes with you to change into to protect floors
– Bring friends for more fun!
– Community dancing for all ages
– High energy, live music
– Everyone makes mistakes but nobody cares
– The more you do it, the easier and more fun it becomes
– Treat one another with care and respect, smile and have a good time
 
Salem students and faculty $3
General admission $10 (Members $8)
Full time students 23 and under $6 (Members $5)
FREE Lesson 5:30
Dance 6-9pm with short break in middle
 
Salem College: Bryant Hall
790 E. Salem Ave, Winston-Salem, NC
I40 Business exit is closed!!!
Access through I40, Highway52 South to Research Parkway, then turn left and then left on Rams and left on Salem.
(Bryant Hall houses the gym, fitness center and Salem Commons)
Enter from Salem Avenue near the athletic fields on the south
 
Fiddle & Bow Country Dancers Website: www.FeetRetreat.com
Follow us on our Facebook Page: Fiddle and Bow Country Dancers
Join our Facebook Group: Fiddle and Bow Contra Dancers
 
Fiddle & Bow Country Dancers is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

“Valentine” Potluck Contra Dance Guilford Grange – Cats Love Milk and Caller George Segebade

Celebrate Valentines Day (2 days after) on February 16 with us as we have  a potluck dinner at 6 pm and then dancing with all your valentine friends from 8 pm until 11 pm.  Bring your favorite dish to share – can be home made or store bought.

Cats Love Milk is a lively 3 piece band from central  NC which uses fiddle, guitar, whistle, drums and bass in various combinations to bring you their own twist on popular fun tunes as well as some that  you may not be as familiar with.

George Segebade is the well known caller and Feet Retreat organizer who will lead us through this fun evening of dancing.

Potluck at 6pm

Lesson at 7:30pm

Dance at 8 pm until 11 pm

Admission: $10, $6 student
(members  $8, $5 student)

See you there for a really fun special evening!

Contra Dance Clemmons – Laurie Fisher and Nic Coker with Caller Nick Boulet

Multi-talented Laurie Fisher has been wending her musical mercenary way for the past 28 years. A self proclaimed ‘Jill of many instruments, master of none’, she calls dances, plays and instructs multiple instruments and musical styles.
 
She is founding fiddler of ‘The String Beings’ whose popularity and cds had them playing around the country at contra events in the nineties. She has also played fiddle, piano, bass and percussion in contrabands Windmill, Boom Chuck, Hot Flash, Holy Coyote, Reckless Abandon (the Asheville one), Haphazard Ensemble, Ants In The Pantry, Evil Twins, Chicken Tractor and Bare Knuckle Quartet.
For more info visit her website
https://lauriefisher.weebly.com/about.html
 
Nic loves playing Contra Dances, barn dances, swing dances, dance dances, bluegrass, country-blues, jazz, ragtime, oldtime, newtime, reallyreallyoldtime, hasn’t-even-happened-yet-futuretime, any Fusions, and whatever else ranging from strictly traditional to highly strange to entirely inaudible. Nic currently plays in the contra dance bands “Boom Chuck”, “Spinning Wheel”, “Kudzoo”, “Spin Cycle”, “The Stuff!”, and the country-swing band “Screech Owl Serenade”, amongst other projects and street performances
 
Caller is Nick Boulet who will surely guide us through lots of fun dances.
 
 
General Info
 
No partner necessary, No experience necessary
– If you can walk, you can contra dance
– If new, join in the fun lesson at 7:30
– Bring clean, soft soled shoes with you to change into to protect floors
– Bring friends for more fun!
– Community dancing for all ages
– High energy, live music
– Everyone makes mistakes but nobody cares
– The more you do it, the easier and more fun it becomes
– Treat one another with care and respect, smile and have a good time
 
General admission $9 (Members $8)
Full time students 23 and under $6 (Members $5)
FREE Lesson 7:30-8pm
Dance 8-10:30pm with short break in middle
 
Clemmons Civic Club
Exit 184 from I-40
2870 Middlebrook Drive, Clemmons, NC
 
Fiddle & Bow Country Dancers Website:
www.FeetRetreat.com
Follow us on our Facebook Page: Fiddle and Bow Country Dancers
Join our Facebook Group: Fiddle and Bow Contra Dancers
 
Fiddle & Bow Country Dancers is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

Contra Dance Salem College – Faux Paws and Callers George Segebade and Nick Boulet

No more sad faces! The wait is over!
Hurricane Florence might have delayed the event, but the not the fun we will have dancing to the wonderful music of Faux Paws.
Andrew VanNorstrand – Guitar
Chris Miller – Saxophones & Banjo
Noah VanNorstrand – Fiddle & Feet
 
Our own callers Nick Boulet and George Segebade will lead you through many enjoyable dances.
 
– No partner necessary, No experience necessary
– If you can walk, you can contra dance
– If new, join in the fun lesson at 7:30
– Bring clean, soft soled shoes with you to change into to protect floors
– Bring friends for more fun!
– Community dancing for all ages
– High energy, live music
– Everyone makes mistakes but nobody cares
– The more you do it, the easier and more fun it becomes
– Treat one another with care and respect, smile and have a good time
 
General admission $10 
Full time students 23 and under $6 
FREE Lesson 7:30-8pm
Dance 8-11pm with short break in middle
 
Salem College: Bryant Hall
790 E. Salem Ave, Winston-Salem, NC
I40 Business exit is closed!!!
Access through I40, Highway52 South to Research Parkway, then turn left and then left on Rams and left on Salem.
(Bryant Hall houses the gym, fitness center and Salem Commons)
Enter from Salem Avenue near the athletic fields on the south
 
Fiddle & Bow Country Dancers Website: www.FeetRetreat.com
Follow us on our Facebook Page: Fiddle and Bow Country Dancers
Join our Facebook Group: Fiddle and Bow Contra Dancers
 
Fiddle & Bow Country Dancers is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

Contra Dance Guilford Grange Reel Shady, Caller Kyle Johnston

At this dance the members of “Reel Shady” will gather to infuse the air with their infectious contra dance styling based on a broad repertoire of lively traditional and celtic music and many year’s experience making music that gets dancer’s feet moving. Enjoy listening to the different instruments blending to add flavor and power to the tunes as you dance.

Caller for the evening is Kyle Johnston.

 

GENERAL INFO

– No partner necessary, No experience necessary

– If you can walk, you can contra dance 

– If new, join in the fun lesson at 7:30

– Bring clean, soft soled shoes with you to change into to protect floors

– Bring friends for more fun!
– Community dancing for all ages
– High energy, live music
– Everyone makes mistakes but nobody cares
– The more you do it, the easier and more fun it becomes
– Treat one another with care and respect, smile and have a good time

General admission $10 (Members $8)
Full time students 23 and under $6 (Members $5). 

Free Lesson 7:30 – 8

Dance 8 – 11:00 pm

Fiddle & Bow Country Dancers
www.feetretreat.com

Fiddle & BowCountry Dancers is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization

Location: Guilford Grange Hall. 4909 Guilford School Rd, Greensboro, NC.

*Note – Despite what internet mapping sites may show, Guilford School Rd is NOT accessible from Guilford College Rd.

Directions: Traveling in either direction on I-40, take Exit 213 (Guilford College Rd). At the end of the ramp, turn right and continue about a mile until you cross railroad tracks at West Market Street. In 100 more feet, turn left onto Lindley Rd. Go 4 tenths mi., then turn right onto Guilford School Rd. The Grange is the last building on the right.

Contra Dance Salem College- High Country Rollers, Caller Eileen Thorsos

We welcome back the High Country Rollers! We eagerly anticipate dancing to the music of this four piece band on Sunday, January 13th at Salem College.

Let me introduce the band:

Kilby Spencer is from Crumpler NC and has been playing old-time music on fiddle for most of his life. 

Kelley Breiding, a NC native an award-winning banjo player, propels the band’s sound with her rhythmic clawhammer style banjo. 

Rick Davidson, from Lewisville NC, is a multi-instrumental award-winning string band musician. 

Joanne Davidson, from Lewisville NC, is an accomplished upright bass and guitar player.

Our Caller for this dance will be Eileen Thorsos!

General Info:

– No partner necessary, No experience necessary

– If you can walk, you can contra dance 

– If new, join in the fun lesson at 5:30

– Bring clean, soft soled shoes with you to change into to protect floors

– Bring friends for more fun!
– Community dancing for all ages
– High energy, live music
– Everyone makes mistakes but nobody cares
– The more you do it, the easier and more fun it becomes
– Treat one another with care and respect, smile and have a good time

Salem students and faculty $3
General admission $10  (Members $8)
Full time students 23 and under $6  (Members $5)
 

FREE Lesson 5:30 – 6

Dance 6 – 9 pm with short break in middle

Salem College: Bryant Hall

790 E. Salem Ave, Winston-Salem, NC 

Easy access from Business-40 or NC-52, “Salem College” exits 

(Bryant Hall houses the gym, fitness center and Salem Commons) 

Enter from Salem Avenue near the athletic fields on the south

Fiddle & Bow Country Dancers Website:  www.FeetRetreat.com

Follow us on our Facebook Page: Fiddle and Bow Country Dancers
Join our Facebook Group: Fiddle and Bow Contra Dancers

Fiddle & Bow Country Dancers is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

Contra Dance Clemmons – Maria Fairchild and Ted Ehrhard, Caller George Segebade

On Tuesday, Jan 8th at Clemmons we once again welcome the multi-talented Ted Ehrhard and Maria Fairchild Duo.  We will get to enjoy Maria Fairchild on piano, banjo and guitar while Ted Ehrhard knocks out multiple melodies on fiddle making it another dancer pleasing evening to enjoy with your friends at the Clemmons dance. The only other thing needed to make it a great evening is you!

Our Caller will be George Segebade who always has many fun dances for us!

 

General Info

No partner necessary, No experience necessary

– If you can walk, you can contra dance 

– If new, join in the fun lesson at 7:30

– Bring clean, soft soled shoes with you to change into to protect floors

– Bring friends for more fun!
– Community dancing for all ages
– High energy, live music
– Everyone makes mistakes but nobody cares
– The more you do it, the easier and more fun it becomes
– Treat one another with care and respect, smile and have a good time

General admission $9 (Members $8)
Full time students 23 and under $6 (Members $5)
 

FREE Lesson 7:30-8pm

Dance 8-10:30pm with short break in middle

Clemmons Civic Club

Exit 184 from I-40

2870 Middlebrook Drive, Clemmons, NC

Fiddle & Bow Country Dancers Website:  www.FeetRetreat.com

Follow us on our Facebook Page: Fiddle and Bow Country Dancers
Join our Facebook Group: Fiddle and Bow Contra Dancers

Fiddle & Bow Country Dancers is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

Open Band/Open Caller Special Holiday Dance

This is a very Special Dance!
Since our last dance was cancelled due to bad weather, we are offering an open band and open caller opportunity. The band will be led by experienced dancer/musicians from Cats Love Milk and The Ones Improper.
Lead Caller will be Nick Boulet.
Bring your instrument and join the band. Callers, we encourage you to come and lead a dance.
This will be a very fun night. Come join us!!!
 
General Info
 
No partner necessary, No experience necessary
 
– If you can walk, you can contra dance
– If new, join in the fun lesson at 7:30
– Bring clean, soft soled shoes with you to change into to protect floors
– Bring friends for more fun!
– Community dancing for all ages
– High energy, live music
– Everyone makes mistakes but nobody cares
– The more you do it, the easier and more fun it becomes
– Treat one another with care and respect, smile and have a good time
 
General admission $9 (Members $8)
Full time students 23 and under $6 (Members $5)
FREE Lesson 7:30-8pm
Dance 8-10:30pm with short break in middle
 
Clemmons Civic Club
Exit 184 from I-40
2870 Middlebrook Drive, Clemmons, NC
 
Fiddle & Bow Country Dancers Website: www.FeetRetreat.com
Follow us on our Facebook Page: Fiddle and Bow Country Dancers
Join our Facebook Group: Fiddle and Bow Contra Dancers
 
Fiddle & Bow Country Dancers is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.