Callers and Musicians for This Sunday's English Country Dance
Nancy Yule
Favorites Spare Parts and Eric Buddington are returning to bring us a wonderful afternoon of live music.
Learn more about the caller and musician below.
Tom Amesse, caller
Tom Amesse is a dance leader in New York City and has been the MC of the New York Playford Ball several times. Across the Hudson, he teaches ECD in Ridgewood, New Jersey and leads their annual “Play-Ful” ball where attendees are encouraged to let loose their inner child and dance as if no one is watching.
Tom travels quite a bit and has taught in many places including Boston and Amherst, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, PA, Washington, DC, Albany, NY and South Kingston, RI. He has led sessions at the "Dance Flurry" in Saratoga Springs, NY, "NOMAD" in New Haven, CT, and Kindred Spirits in Binghamton, NY as well as being the MC at the Stockade Assembly in Schenectady, NY, the George Washington Ball in New York City, the Twelfth Night Assembly in Staten Island, NY, the Colonial Ball in Trenton, NJ and the Elm City Assembly in New Haven, Ct.
In 2011 Tom will MC the Binghamton Ball on April 2. In June he will cross the pond to call sessions at the Litchfield Folk Festival in England.
You will also find Tom calling Contra dances, Square dances and playing his fiddle at Irish sessions.
Tom comes to us from Staten Island.
Spare Parts Band (Bill Matthiesen, piano and Liz Stell, flute)
Spare Parts plays “music from past to present, always with dance groove”. Since our first dance in 1989, Liz and Bill have been playing beautiful and energetic music for Capital English Country Dancers. They are favorites at the Dance Flurry and many other venues. Bill compiled and edited Waltz Books I, II, and III are "Must-haves for the waltz lover." ---Fiddler Magazine.
Eric Buddington will be the “Spare Part” this season.
Visit their WEB site at http://www.bfv.com/spareparts/index.htm
Bill Matthiesen and Liz Stell come to us from the Pittsfield MA area.
Eric Buddington, violin
North Adams' Eric Buddington switches effortlessly between fiddle and violin. He excels at Argentine tangos, waltzes and milongas; he also joins Spare Parts for Regency balls, Ragtime balls, and English country dances, as well as contras. He performs with Spare Parts on The Regency Ballroom CD. Formerly with the Flying Garbanzos, Eric currently performs with Spare Parts (tango, regency, ragtime, contra, English), CoinciDance (contra),. Poke in the Eye (traditional and original fiddle & guitar) and Woodbinde (medieval music). Visit his WEB site at http://eric.buddington.net/
Eric comes to us from North Adams.
Details of the English Country Dance
Date: April 1
Time: 2 - 5 p.m. Dance. 1:30 p.m. Introductory workshop on request.
Location: Channing Hall at the First Unitarian Universalist Church, 405
Washington Avenue, Albany NY 12206. Across from the downtown UAlbany Campus.
Parking: Free street parking and in Hawley Parking Lot on Sunday.
Admission: $11, $9 Capital ECD members, $5 students, first time English country dancers free.
Sponsor: Capital English Country Dancers, an affiliate of the Dance Flurry Organization.
For directions and information: www.danceflurry.org/capital-english or
518-477-5684.
All are Welcome. No experience or partner necessary.
Please wear flat soft-soled shoes.