Port Angeles Contra Dance

At the Black Diamond Community Hall

2025 Contra Dance
Black Diamond Schedule

1/4/2025
The Contraband
Lindsey Dono calling

2/8/2025
Chicken Feathers
Joe Michaels calling

3/8/2025
Na Mara
Caller TBA

4/12/2025
The Contraband
Eric Curl calling

5/10/2025
The Canote Brothers
Laura Me Smith calling

6/14/2025
Band and Caller TBA

Dances held at

Black Diamond
Community Hall

1942 Black Diamond Rd.,
Port Angeles, WA 98363

2nd Saturday of every month

Free Lesson begins at 7pm,
Dance 7:30-10:30pm

Sliding Scale Admission
Adults $10-20
Under 18 1/2 price

Upcoming Events

Potential Youth Dance Weekend – West! Survey, etc

Good dancers! We’d like your help in designing a Youth Dance Weekend West. Please take the survey below and tell us what you’d like to see at an event intended to empower and facilitate youth leadership and community involvement in our dance community. The event, we hope, will be regional. We need diverse voices to build an inclusive event.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/13m_RJFE2hI9KKpusY7_CGlSPPeKYd_Wp_JgusAYbkKI/viewform“

Dance on!

April 2, 2016 Contra Dance!

Canote Brothers

and

Marlin Prowell

We welcome back Marlin Prowell, a well known caller from Bellingham. “Marlin has an easy-going way of teaching so that your feet know what to do before your mind has time to worry about it. If you’ve never danced a step in your life, follow the caller’s instructions and you’ll be smiling and swinging in minutes.”

And we welcome back, from Seattle, the Canote Brothers, who have a long history of playing at Black Diamond.

You can listen to them for hours at http://www.canote.com/home.php and not get tired of it.

Join us at Black Diamond Hall (1942 Black Diamond Rd.)

There is a workshop at 7:30. The dance starts at 8pm. All other dance details are on the “About Our Dance” page on this website.

March 5, 2016 Contra Dance

Laura Mae Smith

and

The Possum Carvers

We welcome back Laura Mae Smith, who has been calling since the 1980 (she emphasizes that she has not been calling since the beginning of time). Her succinct teaching and quick wit delight dancers near and far, young and old, brand new and experienced. Equally comfortable with contra dances, English Country dances, and squares, she’ll keep your toes tapping and your mouth grinning long after the band goes home.

The Possum Carvers from Port Townsend have played for us many times. It’s always nice to dance to their music. They Scott Marckx on fiddle, Jeanie Murphy on banjo, and Chris Cooper on guitar. (Some instrument switching goes on, however.) They have all been playing old-time music for a combination of years that probably comes close to the century mark. They have been known to be hijacked by a certain bunch of contra and French tune-playing folks known as The Glutton-Free Loafers. They look amazingly like Scott, Jeanie, and Chris. They all live in Port Townsend.
They enjoy themselves and we enjoy them.

There is a workshop at 7:30pm. The dance begins at 8:00. All other dance details are on the “About Our Dance” page on this website.