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Save the dates for next year's Cabin Fever: February 13-15, 2009!
What do you get when you combine 2 great bands like the Elftones and Land of Sky?
The celestial sounds of the Skytones!!!

Contra Dance:
We dance to live music every Monday night, 8-11 pm, at the Laurel Theater (16th St. and Laurel Ave. [directions]), $7 ($3 for students).
Beginners are welcome, no partner or experience required. It's easy and fun!

Schedule

Date		Band	Caller	Sound/Open/Close
August	11	Clearbranch	Tim Klein	Allen/Jan/Jimbo
	18	Danny Gammon and the Love Muffins	Vicki Herndon *	James/Sandee/TBA
	25	Attic Rattlers	Nick Boulet *	Allen/TBA/TBA
September	1	Labor Day Dance! End of Summer Beach Party Band: TBA ~ Wear beach attire ~ Bring snacks ~	Tim Klein	Mark/Marita/Marita

* The caller will teach a Beginner's Workshop at 7:30 pm. (Nick Boulet's website)

June-August Full Schedule Page or Printable PDF

The KCD Schedule is published quarterly. It will be sent by email to our subscribers.
If you would like to receive the quarterly schedule along with other occasional announcements of KCD events, please sign up by sending an email to kcdwebmaster @ yahoo.com (omit spaces) saying you would like to join the local info list. There will also be paper copies of the schedule available at the dances.

Booking:

For scheduling and booking inquiries, contact
Bill McGowan bbmcgowan @ fastmail.fm.

All other questions: kcdwebmaster @ yahoo.com.

Newsletters:

Promenade, July 2008
Promenade, April 2008
Promenade, January 2008
Promenade, November 2007

Dance Weekend

Cabin Fever 08 t-shirt

Save the dates
for next year's Cabin Fever: February 13-15, 2009!

What do you get when you combine 2 great bands like
The Elftones and Land of Sky?

The celestial sounds of the Skytones!!!

(Mara Shea: fiddle; Roger Gold: guitar;
Laura Lengnick: fiddle; Paul Moore: piano, accordion, drums)

[Click on a CD to listen to some tunes by the Elftones.]

Some tunes by Laura Lengnick

See our All-Star Gallery and Bob Bennett's Photo Pages

What is Contra Dance? Ask 20 different people to define contra dancing
and you will get 20 different definitions. Gary Shapiro puts it like this --
"A contra dance is like an amusement park ride we make for ourselves."

"Devoted dancers practice tradition and
welcome even the most hesitant newcomers"
an article in the MetroPulse February 2004
by Paige M. Travis, a dance skeptic

another article in the MetroPulse
by Val Pendergrast, “Dance, Dance, Dance”,
Metro Pulse (vol. 6, no. 33), August 15–22, 1996

See our own Miss Vicki
featured in the Knoxville News Sentinel's: Picture This!

See some of our dance gypsies at Warren Wilson College:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bQcMF60srM

Here is a great reference for new dancers,
complete with videos:
"What is Contra Dancing?"
by Chattahoochee Country Dancers in Atlanta

~ and a 10-minute clip of "Dancing Contras"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSPmHoStII8

With very rare exceptions we dance every Monday night from 8-11 pm
at the Laurel Theater at 16th Street and Laurel Avenue [directions].
Beginners are welcome,
(it helps to show up early), and no partner is required.
All dances will be taught. "If you can walk, you can contra dance."
Admission for all dances is $7 ($3 for students).

You can burn a lot of energy on the dance floor, so we recommend you
wear loose fitting comfortable clothing with layers that you can remove.
To preserve our dance space, we request that you wear or bring
clean non-marking soft-soled shoes for dancing.