Mud Season Contra Dance in Sheffield on March 28th
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3rd Annual Mud Season Contra Dance!
Save the date for the next Sheffield Contra Dance:
Saturday, March 28th, from 7:30 until 11:00.
Owen Marshall and Emily Troll will provide the live music and Peter Blue will be calling!
Mid Winter Contra Dance – December 27th at Dewey Hall in Sheffield
Autumn Equinox Dance Sept. 27th
Bring songs to sing from 5 until 6:30 – we’re going with an animal theme this time.
Please bring a dish to share during the potluck, and a plate and utensils for yourself, if you want to be environmentally friendly.
Beginners are welcome at this dance – contra dancing is for everyone, regardless of experience!
Sacred Harp Singing Success
Thanks to Allison Steel for leading a Sacred Harp singing school before our June 28th Sheffield Contra dance!
New Moon Dance this Saturday!
This Saturday, June 28th, learn to flirt the old fashioned way – community singing and dancing at Dewey Memorial Hall on Main Street in Sheffield.
Here’s the order of events:
singing school 4:30 – 6:30 pm
potluck supper 6:30 – 7:30 pm
contra dancing 7:30 – 11:00 pm
Community Singing School in the “Shaped Note” style of The Sacred Harp
Led by Allison Steel
Sacred Harp is foot-stompingly powerful four-part harmony a cappella singing and one of America’s oldest musical traditions. (more info below)
Contra Dance
music by Calamity Physics, with guest fiddler Eric Buddington
Called by Steve Howland
Contra dancing is a form of social dancing — like square dancing, but better. Everyone is welcome, regardless of experience level.
$8 students | $10 adults | max. $25 for families with children under 12
The Sacred Harp is a hymnal, first published in the 1840s, containing a wide variety of sacred music with roots in folk songs, fiddle tunes, ballads, plainsong… The book features “shaped note” notation, a system invented in Albany in 1802 to help people learn how to read music. The terms “Sacred Harp” or “Shaped Note” now refer to the style of music associated with the hymnal (which was last republished in 1991). All levels of experience (and inexperience) are welcome. Songbooks will be provided. Learn more about Sacred Harp:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/sep/30/shape-note-singing
New Moon Dance
New Moon Dance
And Sacred Harp Singing School
Saturday, June 28th, 2014
at Dewey Memorial Hall
Rt. 7 in Sheffield Mass.
music by
Calamity Physics
With special guest fiddler Eric Buddington
and calling by
Steve Howland
and Sacred Harp (Shaped Note) singing school led by
Allison Steel
4:30-6:30 Singing school, no experience necessary
6:30-7:30 Potluck supper, bring a dish to share
7:30-8:00 Family dance for beginners and kids
8:00-11:00 Contra Dance
