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Welcome to Charleston Folk

Charleston SC Contra Dancing

 

We normally dance the 1st and 3rd Fridays of each month at North Charleston's Park Circle Felix Davis Community Center. click here for map  Admision is $8 and the dancing begins at 8 PM. Beginners walk-thru/instruction is at 7:45PM.

We have a mailing list to keep those interested in our events up to date... Please visit our GOOGLE GROUPS page and JOIN the group to receive announcements. Or send email to contra-charleston+subscribe@googlegroups.com

** Please see links at the bottom of the page for other nearby dances.

Area Contra Dance Events
 

Dance Location

We are dancing at the Felix Davis Community Center at Park Circle in North Charleston. Our normal dances will be held the first and third Friday, however some weeks the hall is booked and there will be NO dance... See schedule below.

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Opening Volunteer (Send Email to Didi at onabirdy2 (at) yahoo.com )

Closing Volunteer (Send Email to Didi at onabirdy2 (at) yahoo.com ) 

August 6 2010

(Friday)

Charleston Folk Contra Dance

Sullivan's Folly with Hank Morris calling
   

August 20 2010

(Friday)

Charleston Folk Contra Dance

Hungry Monks with MJ Saylor calling
   

03 September 2010

(Friday)

Charleston Folk Contra Dance

Jason Creek String with Janet Shephard calling

LOCATON CHANGE:!!!!! [see on map]

Danny Jones Gymnasium

1455 Monitor Street

North Charleston, SC 29405-4159

   

17 September 2010

(Friday)

Charleston Folk Contra Dance

Hungry Monks with Charles Harvey calling
   

01 October 2010

(Friday)

Charleston Folk Contra Dance

Bonne Terre with Dean Snipes calling
   

15 October 2010

(Friday)

Charleston Folk Contra Dance

LEAF Festival -- NO Charleston DANCE
   

05 November 2010

(Friday)

Charleston Folk Contra Dance

Shifty Tweeds with Kenny Greer calling
   

19 November 2010

(Friday)

Charleston Folk Contra Dance

Toss the Possum with Dean Snipes calling
   

03 December 2010

(Friday)

Charleston Folk Contra Dance

Blue Ridge Rounders with Andrea Nettleton calling

VENUE CHANGE: Circular Church on Meeting Street

   

17 December 2010

(Friday)

Charleston Folk Contra Dance

Anna's Bananas with MJ Saylor calling

VENUE CHANGE: Circular Church on Meeting Street

   

Anytime 2010 (Friday)

Charleston Folk Contra Dance

Looking for GREAT BANDS AND CALLERS -- Contact Ann Birdseye
   

8 - 10 April 2011

(Friday)

Charleston Folk Contra Dance

Palmetto Bug Stomp -- Footloose and Elftones are playing with Beth Molaro and Tom Hinds Calling...
   

Other groups that sponser dances within 5-6 hours driving distance of Charleston include Columbia Old Time Music & Dance (Columbia, SC), Old Farmer's Ball (Asheville, NC), Charlotte Country Dancers and Charlotte Dance Gypsies (Charlotte, NC), Harvest Moon Folk Society (Greenville, SC), Fiddle and Bow Country Dancers (Winston-Salem & Greensboro, NC), Triangle County NC, Savannah Folk Music Society (Savannah, GA), Chattahooche Country Dancers (Atlanta, GA), Athens Folk Music and Dance Society (Athens, GA), and Cape Fear Contra Dancers (Wilmington, NC).

For an overview of dances in the South Atlantic region, as well as other regions in the country, check out Charlie Seelig's pages. E-mail info for bands, callers, etc. can be found there, too.

For information about contra dances anywhere in the USA, see Kiran Wagle's contra dance pages or Bob Stein's. Other resources for locating dances nationwide are the NEFFA LinkFest! pages and the contra dance map created by Dwayne Johnson and a new Dance DB at Ted Crane's ContraDanceDB.

 

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