The Community Barn Dance will once again give people a 'chance to dance' to toe-tapping live music this Saturday in the social hall of the United Methodist Church, 109 Patten (at First East), 7 to 10.
Rebecca King, a favorite Valley music teacher, happens to also be a favorite contra dance piano player around Northern California, and she will be joined on Saturday by accomplished "fiddlinist" Michelle Levy (of String Fire). The caller is Kelsey Hartman.
Dance organizer Lauren Ayers says, "Even third graders can do this. And men with a dance trauma in their history will like contra because the caller makes it soooo easy -- teaching each dance before the music begins and calling it while the band plays."
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New England Country Dancing is also called "contra," which is Latin for opposite (dancers are in long lines facing their partner in the other line).
See what contra dancing looks like:
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Donations for the musicians of $5 are requested from people 21 to 65.
