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

December 6, 2014 Dance with The Fixations and Tony Mates

The”Fixations” played a great dance for us in 2012, and now after a year of Cathie’s recovery from rotator-cuff injuries, we finally get them back (intact)! They’re famous for their incredibly tight and compelling dance music, their rampant enthusiasm, and their international credentials. Featured at major contra dance camps and festivals in the country over the past 35+ years, their joy infects the entire dance floor, offering both new dancers and long-time pros a blissful night of fun. Laurie Andres has long been sought out to perform on accordion and teach music and dance because his phrasing is impeccably wedded to the dance. Sandy Bradley is a master guitar player, caller, and long-time host of the beloved radio program “Potluck”. Cathie Whitesides’s Irish fiddle expertise was a quick fit with the New England-style contra tunes. Cathie, Sandy and Laurie met in 1980 and the musical chemistry caught fire.

Tony Mates is one of our favorite guest callers from the Seattle area. He returns with this band because he likes their music so much.

(You will too).

Remember, he’ll give a workshop at 7:30. All other dance details are on the “About Our Dance” page on this website.

Special Dance, Wednesday Nov. 12!!!

October 4, 2014 Dance with Vivian & Phil Williams

Vivian & Phil Williams play for dance Saturday, Oct. 2nd

Vivian and Phil Williams play the hoedowns, reels, waltzes, dance tunes, and songs that came to the Pacific Northwest with the pioneers over the Oregon Trail, and later immigrants. This dynamic, foot stomping music is played on acoustic instruments – fiddle, guitar, banjo and mandolin – as it was in the old days. It brings back the images of relaxing after a hard day on the Trail, the Saturday night dance in the Grange Hall, and the simple pleasures of having a good time playing music with friends and neighbors after the day’s chores are done.

“Vivian Williams has long been heralded as a master of Celtic, old-time and bluegrass styles. Williams is a prize winning fiddler with long experience of playing for dances around her native Seattle, and her playing has the lift and drive needed for good barn dancing.” Sing Out Magazine

Caller Amy Carroll

Amy has been folk dancing longer than she can remember and has been calling dances since 1987. She calls traditional American folk dances: contras, squares, circles and play party games for all ages and ability levels. She has called at public contra dances, preschools, elementary schools, weddings, bars, grange halls, auctions, birthday parties, festivals, theNorthwest Folklife Festival and worked as a dance artist-in-residence at the elementary level. Given 8 people, 5 minutes, and a couple dozen square feet, Amy can create a dance.

Details

Dance starts with a workshop on the basics at 7:30, then dancing from 8:00 to 11:00. Admission is by donation. The Black Diamond Community Hall is at 1942 Black Diamond Rd., Port Angeles. Come and have a great time!