2nd Saturday Topsham Me June 2018

[Jeff Raymond]

Howdy Folks,

Summer has burst upon us with a tease of heat and then pulled back just to show us who's boss. Embrace this cool weather and hope it means chill dancing at the Topsham Grange Saturday night. Great sleeping weather too.

This Saturday will be the last  Topsham Family Dance of the Season so bring out the fam & their friends. If you play an instrument at any ability please join the band.

My earliest Maine contradance experiences really set the vibe for me, with input from what seemed almost total chaos in the sweat of the 'Ham dances to the strict classic sense of the dance with Ted Sanella these local bands, callers & dancers then on the scene changed my life.

Such fun my then wife Lizzy thought we oughta start a dance in Freeport so we started working with all the Maine bands of the time but also folks from away in the little Freeport Grange. 

Moving the dance from 2nd Saturday Freeport dance & the 4th Saturday Portland Dance to North Yarmouth's Wescustogo Hall  and adding the 5th Saturdays really upped the game and soon we were having more & more and different bands.

That's about when Einstein's Little Homunculus came to Maine and wow, what a difference a little ole horn section makes! Their klezma roots gave the band 's trad tunes a wallop unlike anything I'd heard ever. 

It's so easy to Google n YouTube 'em, there is no excuse to not give em a listen.

There's been a lot of fantastic bands emerge in the scene through the decades I've been hanging about and I gotta say these folks still got it goin' on, Come on out to Topsham Saturday give your feet n ears a treat.

Be well, see ya there, Jeff

June 9th

Topsham Grange, 47 Pleasant St. Topsham Maine

Family Dance 6:00-7:00 p.m. $3 each/$12 family max.

Finger-food Potluck

7:30 Beginners Session

 Contra dance 8 to 11 $8 students and seniors, $10 

FMI contact Maggie at (207) 233-4325 or fiddle103atyahoodotcom see contradancetopsham.wordpress.com

Einstein’s Little Homunculus

with Angela DeCarlis

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/119394188082865/.

Most dances taught. Bring clean shoes for dancing and a water bottle of your own!

• ELH was once and may be still: Tich Cownie: fiddle, vocals
Paul Crook: mandolin, guitar, bass, accordion, vocals
Susan Gedutis Lindsay: pennywhistles, alto and baritone saxophones, flute, vocals
Carol Laliberté DeLorenzo: pennywhistles, low D whistle, recorder, soprano saxophone, vocals
Eric Mumpower: B flat and C clarinets, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone
Rob Rudin: bodhrán, bones, dumbek, washboard, cocktail drums, vocals