Contra Dance Hub for Northern Florida
Joe De Paolo from New York will be calling contra dances to live music of Wild Bill’s Traveling Circus on Sunday, June 2nd, 2019. Wild Bill’s Traveling Circus is:• Mike Stapleton on fiddle;• Bill Paine – mandolin;• Bobby Lolley –
A real old-time Gainesville band, The Fish Camp Cutups, are returning to the stage to play for contra dancers and Gainesville caller Jonathan King on May 18th 2019. The Fish Camp Cutups are:* Lloyd Baldwin on fiddle* Brent Baldwin on banjo* Inslee Baldwin on
Contra-Fusion is coming our way. Layered with African rhythm and big-band strings, ‘Comes When Called’ promises to “delight dance floor denizens” with their Celtic, modern and old-time tunes. Our own JoLaine will show us the way through the contra-fusion and
The Kumquats are back for another engagement! And Vicki Morrison calls for us in her continued work for World Peace through contra dance. So get ready to kick up your heels Sunday April 7, 2019
Sunday, March 31st, 2019, is the GODS Advanced Dance at the Thelma Boltin Center from 4-7pm. The band is Deux Francois (Bill, Sarah, Frances) and the caller is JoLaine.
We get another chance to enjoy Joe Rush’s heavenly venue Dancing Fish, and raise money for a great cause, on March 30th, 2019.
Wild Asparagus Weekend at the Dancing Fish of Lake Santa Fe–April 19-20-21st 2019 Contra dance to one of New England’s finest bands, Wild Asparagus, in the new covered dance barn at The Dancing Fish, on Lake Santa Fe in Melrose, Florida (18 miles east of Gainesville).