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SATURDAY NIGHT SQUARE DANCE! 
September 13, 2008 at 7pm
Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center
1317 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA
Benton Flippen, Paul Brown and Frank Bode
with Paul Hostetter and Eric Thompson - see Friday night roster
Dance callers:
SATURDAY NIGHT SQUARE DANCE! September 13, 2008 at 7pm
Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center
1317 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA
Three
acoustic fiddle bands pumping out music that makes you want to get
up and dance, plus three callers who love to introduce the uninitiated
to the
fun of a square dance party, with the emphasis on “party”!! No dancing
experience is needed, the callers will teach all dances from scratch
and will
call the moves all the way through. The evening starts off at 7pm with
a clogging workshop wth Evie Ladin, and the dance blasts off at 7:30pm
with the first hour geared towards
families and less experienced dancers, including a couple of dances
that even
babes in arms can do! No need to bring a partner, although you can if
you want.
And same sex partners fit in fine.
Benton Flippen, Paul Brown and Frank Bode
with Paul Hostetter and Eric Thompson - see Friday night roster
The sound of the Foghorn Stringband
could have come barreling through the grille-cloth of those big console
radios in the living rooms of the 1950's, when the traditional sounds
of rural America were still on the minds of young musicians
transferring the old-time music to a distinctively modern age. Their
tight intstrumental work and line-up - fiddle, banjo, mandolin, bass
and guitar - is reminiscent of early bluegrass, but their powerful
approach is whole-heartedly old-time, centered largely by the fiddle.
Devoted to the interpretation and performance of American stringband
music, their style encompasses early country music, the fiddle
repertoire of the Southern Appalachians and the Midwest, and the
stringband sounds of the Piedmont region.
The heart of the Foghorn Stringband sound is made up of the unison melody line of fiddler Stephen "Sammy" Lind and mandolinist Caleb Klauder. P.T. Grover Jr.'s three-finger picking style and resonator banjo sets their sound apart from other contemporary old-time bands. Kevin Sandri plays rhythm guitar with the snap of a snare drum and bass player Brian Bagdonas delivers a relentless driving beat that forms the underlying tone of Foghorn's sound. Caleb, Sammy, and Kevin also deliver a seamless blend of richly unadorned vocals.
http://www.foghornstringband.com
Caleb and Sammy also appear in concert at the Freight on Friday night, and Sammy will teach a fiddle workshop on Sunday at the Jazzschool.
The heart of the Foghorn Stringband sound is made up of the unison melody line of fiddler Stephen "Sammy" Lind and mandolinist Caleb Klauder. P.T. Grover Jr.'s three-finger picking style and resonator banjo sets their sound apart from other contemporary old-time bands. Kevin Sandri plays rhythm guitar with the snap of a snare drum and bass player Brian Bagdonas delivers a relentless driving beat that forms the underlying tone of Foghorn's sound. Caleb, Sammy, and Kevin also deliver a seamless blend of richly unadorned vocals.
http://www.foghornstringband.com
Caleb and Sammy also appear in concert at the Freight on Friday night, and Sammy will teach a fiddle workshop on Sunday at the Jazzschool.
The Squirrelly Stringband’s first performance was at the Berkeley
Stringband Convention in 2003; they won first place in the string band
contest that year and the next. Since then they’ve performed at
festivals, square dances, concerts, parties, corn shuckin’s and barn
raisin’s and more. The band is led by fiddler David Murray. Debbie
Berne plays old-time clawhammer banjo and is known for her inimitable
rhythmic style. Allegra Yellin is the guitarist of choice for any
fiddler in the area that needs back-up for a square dance. David,
Debbie and Allegra also play Greek music with the Disciples of
Markos. Rachel Kraai plays a washtub bass of her own design with a “take no prisoners” attitude and a fistful of duct tape.
Stringband Convention in 2003; they won first place in the string band
contest that year and the next. Since then they’ve performed at
festivals, square dances, concerts, parties, corn shuckin’s and barn
raisin’s and more. The band is led by fiddler David Murray. Debbie
Berne plays old-time clawhammer banjo and is known for her inimitable
rhythmic style. Allegra Yellin is the guitarist of choice for any
fiddler in the area that needs back-up for a square dance. David,
Debbie and Allegra also play Greek music with the Disciples of
Markos. Rachel Kraai plays a washtub bass of her own design with a “take no prisoners” attitude and a fistful of duct tape.
Dance callers:
| Bill Martin http://www.bubbaguitar.com/callers.html | Jordan Ruyle | Maggie Brunjes Lind |
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