June 21: El Cerrito 3rd Sun. Scandia Dance, Workshop & Potluck - Featuring Valerie Rose on Fiddle

[Toby Blomé]

(Mark Your Calendar:  Next month’s 3rd Sunday Scandia Dance, Workshop & Potluck: July 19, 4-10pm)

El Cerrito 3rd Sunday Scandia Dance

   Midsommar/Summer Solstice Workshop, Party and Potluck

      June 21, 4:00 - 10:00 pm

With Special Featured Musician:  

     Valerie Rose on Fiddle

   

  

About Valerie Rose:  Valerie Rose is a Bay Area fiddler, singer, and dance musician steeped in Celtic, Scandinavian, Old-Time, and Balkan traditional music. She plays regularly for Irish, Scottish, English Country Dance, and contra dance, and plays for the Oakland Scandia Dance with Jane Tripi and Leslie Bonnet. She is the newest member of Wake the Dead, the World's Only Celtic Grateful Dead Jam Band. Learn more at vrosemusic.com.

Summer Solstice Theme:

***Optional:  To add to the festive Midsommar/Summer Solstice ambience wear a flowered wreath in your hair, a flowered printed shirt or dress, or some symbol of sun and sunshine to welcome in the summer…or whatever moves you.  Bring a poem about summer to read to us during the potluck.  

Sponsored by Golden Gate Nordic Music & Dance, a program of the Northern California Spelmanslag, a non-profit public benefit corporation.

Hillside Swedenborgian Church  

1422 Navellier St.

El Cerrito       

Map HERE

(About 12 blocks from El Cerrito Del Norte BART)

For Mother Earth:  Please Carpool or BART if you can)

Workshop $5, Dance Party $10-15, Workshop & Dance, $10-20, Sliding Scale;  

Free for musicians and first-timers.

(All proceeds go to pay rent and support the musicians)

4:00-6:00 pm:  Dance Workshop, taught by Fred & Toby 

TEACH: 

Slängpolska fr. Småland -  A fun improvisational/free-style dance from Sweden danced “on the spot” with your partner, that is friendly for folks new to Scandinavian dancing.  Slängpolska music has a driving, energetic rhythm and the steps themselves are not very challenging…a good dance for folks new to Scandinavian dancing.

Slängpolska fr. Småland  (Video) - (Ingegerd Vejvi and Björn Fredriksson)

REVIEW: 

Stigvals  (Video) - (Leif & Margareta Virtanen) - A waltz variant from Sweden that fits well with most slow waltz tunes.

Vigga Schottis (Video) - A fun schottis mixer from Sweden

7:00-10:00 pm:  Dance Party  

Live Music from Bay Area Musicians:  

Valerie Rose, fiddle (Featured guest musician)

Jenny Solheim, hardingfele, flat fiddle & song

Fred Bialy, Toby Blomé, Jenny Solheim, nyckelharpor & fiddle

Jim Little, Fiddle & Säckpipa

Fred Bialy, Springleik

Allspel

All are welcome, including children!  Bring friends!

Don’t forget your dance shoes and a potluck dish to share.

Happy Dancing,

Fred & Toby