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Friends of Old-Time Music and Dance. A contra dance group based in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Want to be in a MOVIE - today and tomorrow. ACT FAST
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Dancer Tom Gordon is an extra in the movie 42 being filmed in Birmingham. THEY NEED MORE PEOPLE.
If you can, show up at Rickwood Field TODAY at 9:30am to get fitted for your costume. You will get lunch and some pay. MENTION TOM GORDON'S NAME.
ALSO tomorrow evening, but I am not sure what time yet.... more »
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Time for a Contra - this Saturday
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Come Dance this Saturday Night! We are so lucky to have The Yahoos playing tunes with the fun calling of Archie Faulker.
When? Saturday, May 12 8:00pm - 11pm. Bring your beginner friends/family at 7:30pm for some free lessons.
Where? The lovely gym at the Birmingham YWCA, 309 23rd St N, Birmingham, AL... more »
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BIG DOINGS TOMORROW (Wednesday) EVENING
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Contra Dancer Stephanie Cook and her friend Rachel Berry have been making a film about Contra Dancing and Old Time Music in Birmingham.
It will be DEBUTED tomorrow evening at the McWane Center IMAX Theater. I do hope you can attend.
Here's the scoop:
Things get rolling at 6 pm
From 6-7 pm, you can listen to the live music of many of your favorite players as they jam away. Join them if you wish!... more »
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news flash we need a HOST for the dance this SUNDAY! Can you do it?
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Please email me back ASAP! It would be showing up at 3pm to set up the tables and chairs. You also would be contacting folks to help Reggie Bolton - but I give you the email addresses for that~ We have a special dance this Sunday afternoon, 4pm North-South Railroad returns to Birmingham after last April's successful dance. The band is made up of Tina Chancey, fiddle, Nancy Fiske, clarinet and recorders, and Charlie Pilzer, piano. Rickey Holt calls in New Hampshire and surrounding states and will be on tour with the band. North-South Railroad marks the collaboration of three musicians with feet in so many pies they might well be centipedes.Charlie Pilzer, performer, sound engineer and producer, has played for countless dances the past 35 years. He has been on staff at Pinewoods for CDSS, Christmas Country Dance School in Berea, KY, Chesapeake dance weekend and many other dance events. Charlie performs with Scandinavian fiddlers Loretta Kelley and Andrea Hoag; their CD Hambo in the Snow was nominated for a Grammy in 2007. He’s a spontaneous, rhythmic and florid keyboard player who enjoys the simple, old tunes from the Scots-Irish, French Canadian, and Appalachian traditions that lend themselves so well to voluptuous cascades of chords, reharmonizations and inspired modulations. Tina Chancey, director of the early/traditional music crossover group HESPERUS, specializes in bowed string instruments from fiddle and rebec to viola da gamba and kamenj, on roots music from medieval and renaissance to Sephardic, Colonial American, Celtic, Cajun and Old Time. She’s spent many a warm summer’s evening playing country dances, waltzes, bransles and contras at Pinewoods, Buffalo Gap, and Glen Echo in the States and for Renaissance Bals in obscure corners of France. She would rather improvise than play it straight, mostly because both her eyesight and memory are failing and the only way she can keep going is to make it up. Or maybe that’s just her excuse.Joined by Nancy Fiske, preeminent performer on clarinet and recorder, the trio offers an irreverent pastiche of lyrical and driving tunes spanning the centuries in a sparkling, rambunctious groove. Or was that a sparking pastiche of tunes in an irreverent groove? Come and see.... more »
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BIG DAY THIS SUNDAY! Picnic and CONTRA!
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We have a special dance this Sunday afternoon, 4pm North-South Railroad returns to Birmingham after last April's successful dance. The band is made up of Tina Chancey, fiddle, Nancy Fiske, clarinet and recorders, and Charlie Pilzer, piano. Rickey Holt calls in New Hampshire and surrounding states and will be on tour with the band. North-South Railroad marks the collaboration of three musicians with feet in so many pies they might well be centipedes.Charlie Pilzer, performer, sound engineer and producer, has played for countless dances the past 35 years. He has been on staff at Pinewoods for CDSS, Christmas Country Dance School in Berea, KY, Chesapeake dance weekend and many other dance events. Charlie performs with Scandinavian fiddlers Loretta Kelley and Andrea Hoag; their CD Hambo in the Snow was nominated for a Grammy in 2007. He’s a spontaneous, rhythmic and florid keyboard player who enjoys the simple, old tunes from the Scots-Irish, French Canadian, and Appalachian traditions that lend themselves so well to voluptuous cascades of chords, reharmonizations and inspired modulations. Tina Chancey, director of the early/traditional music crossover group HESPERUS, specializes in bowed string instruments from fiddle and rebec to viola da gamba and kamenj, on roots music from medieval and renaissance to Sephardic, Colonial American, Celtic, Cajun and Old Time. She’s spent many a warm summer’s evening playing country dances, waltzes, bransles and contras at Pinewoods, Buffalo Gap, and Glen Echo in the States and for Renaissance Bals in obscure corners of France. She would rather improvise than play it straight, mostly because both her eyesight and memory are failing and the only way she can keep going is to make it up. Or maybe that’s just her excuse.Joined by Nancy Fiske, preeminent performer on clarinet and recorder, the trio offers an irreverent pastiche of lyrical and driving tunes spanning the centuries in a sparkling, rambunctious groove. Or was that a sparking pastiche of tunes in an irreverent groove? Come and see.... more »
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Great Dance this Saturday Night!
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It's time for a contra, and we've got another wonderful time planned for you and your friends! We will be dancing to the tunes of Renewable Energy with calling by Doug Singleton. These folks will have you smiling from ear to ear as you dance around the floor. This Atlanta band makes beautiful, bubbly dance music with fiddle by Ann Whitley, concertina by David Marcus, and keyboard by Robbin Marcus. They have a classic New England contra dance style that is such fun to dance to and they coordinate their tune choices with Doug Singleton with delightful results.... more »
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Contra Dancer Jennifer Davis could use a little love from her Contra Dance Community!
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Recently Jennifer had back surgery - she is doing well, but can't get around like her usual self as of yet. We have set up a meal train - and if you would like to hop on board, you can, but if you aren't interested, please disregard this email. There are times in our lives when friends and family ask, "What can I do to help out?" The answer is usually to help them with a meal. When many friends give a meal, this is a meal train.... more »
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Concert of one of your favorite bands - this Saturday - at Moonlight!
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We have danced to this band recently (and for lots of years). Come to Moonlight on the Mountain this Saturday night to sit and enjoy these wonderful talented musicians! Catch the Herb Trotman Band at Moonlight on the Mountain this Saturday, March 31st. Doors open at 7:00 and music begins at 7:30. Bring your choice of snack and beverage and a spare chair if you have it. The Moonlight doesn't take credit cards. For more info, check them out on the web at [link].... more »
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one more thing - tonight!
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Sorry about the FLYING JENNY photo not coming through on last night's email. They look beautiful - you should just come to the dance to see for yourself! Sunday, 4pm. And TONIGHT === Our FOOTMAD President thought you should know about this! (From Janet Wallace) Elephant Revival sounds like it may interest our dance community. We listened on line and thought they were great.... more »
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