Triple Chicken Foot, from the Los Angeles area, is an old time band who love to play for squares and contras – they’ll be part of the BOTMC Saturday night square dance, along with the Pilot Mountain Bobcats and Mike Bryant, Joseph Decosimo & Karen Celia Heil.  Caller Susan Michaels, also from the Los Angeles area, will be team-tagging with the Bay Area’s Erik Hoffman for a rocking evening of square dancing at Ashkenaz.  The callers will teach all the dances, no experience is necessary, and you don’t need to bring a partner.  All ages are welcome! 

For those who want a break from dancing, a jam session in the back studio, open to all comers, will be led by Mark Olson & Penny Critchlow (8pm) and Grace Forrest & Karen Celia Heil (10pm on).

But wait - there's more - before the dance, from 6:30pm to 7:30pm, Thomas Maupin and Jay Bland will teach a flatfooting workshop in the back studio. Admission is $25 and that INCLUDES ADMISSION TO THE SQUARE DANCE. 

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Triple Chicken Foot is a Los Angeles based Old Time stringband, with Ben Guzman (Guzmonster) on fiddle and mandolin, Mike Heinle (Musty Carl) on banjo and Kelly Marie Martin (K. Boogie) on guitar.  Having played together for more than five years, they’ve become a powerful dance band, and have recorded two CDs.  Ben began playing in 2005 with Old Jitters and apprenticed with Tom Sauber, learning many tunes that Tom learned from his years of playing with Earl Collins and other older generation players.  Originally an upright bass player, Mike began playing clawhammer banjo when original Foot guitjo player Mike Daniels departed; he took 1st place on a fretless banjo at Goleta 2009. Kelly started playing old time music on the upright bass in Old Jitters after years of playing punk/indie/folk. A self-taught guitar player, she hopes to one day unwind the carter scratch which can be hard for a girl who likes to hustle the rhythm along.