Sassafras Stomp, from Maine by way of Montana, features fiddler Johanna Davis and guitarist Adam Nordell playing folk music with a dynamic
contra dance sound.
Other social dance forms, such as square and
contra dances, and international folk dancing, are contrasted with ECD.
To be sure, the majority of the clubs are dedicated to
Contra Dance, but several thousand English dancers gather for weekly or bi-weekly evenings of stately dance with groups as disparate as the Fairbanks, Alaska, English Country Dancers and English County Dance Atlanta.
Learn Welsh Dances with Moch Pryderri;
Contra Dance with Anacrusis; Waltz to Old Timey tunes or do-si-do your darling during the square dance called by Pete LaBerge.
In it, the black man adds some parts of the
contra dance, or white man's square dance, to his own personal choreographic moves.
Join the "Picks and Sticks" band for lively music and a
contra dance.
The Eugene Folklore Society presents what it calls the "hottest
contra dance band in the land" Thursday at the Cesar Chavez Elementary School gymnasium, 1510 W.
It's a bit like square dancing in its swings and promenades, but instead of four couples making up a dancing square,
contra dance is done in two long lines, with each couple eventually dancing with every other couple.
Eugene-based old-time band the Conjugal Visitors will take the stage with Portland
contra dance caller Rich Goss.
Eugene Folklore Society -
Contra dance with caller Woody Lane and music by the Atlantic Crossing, 8 p.
