Dance, and dance, and dance

[fivemack]

Would anyone be interested in going to a contra dance in Cambridge on Saturday evening? It's at the Emmanuel URC on Trumpington Street, 8-11pm; it's like a ceilidh (so there's a caller, you change partner after each dance, and the music is fiddle and bass), only faster, twirlier and more American.

Comments

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I might go along depending, I went to one before.

[tea-cantata.livejournal.com]

That sounds fantastic. If I'm not dead or whatnot at that point, I think I might. How much are tickets? Who's putting it on?

[angoel.livejournal.com]

There is a possibility of my going, but I'd need to work out whether it was possible for me to crash somewhere thereafter.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

I don't think we can get to dances in Cambridge (though Stick Shift Contra are playing Cecil Sharp House next month) but this is just a post to say that if Andrew Swaine is involved (and I can't see how he wouldn't be) he really is the finest caller of his generation and is becoming awesome.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

FWIW, that's the first reference to contra dancing in this country I've yet seen; it took me some time to make the contra dancing - ceilidh connection based purely on mentions I'd seen in the US. (Not to say that it should have taken me any longer than, ooh, one Wikipedia article.)