{"id":34,"date":"2018-05-20T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-12-11T23:56:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T23:56:18","slug":"contra-dance-june-2nd-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackdiamonddance.org\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Contra Dance, June 2nd 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Michael Karcher<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">calling to<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">David Bartley and Brandon Vance<\/div>\n<\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-zNYRnVejdRM\/WwH3YwZK2AI\/AAAAAAAABUw\/swvciYdYI1QBxjCTlIJqzQYVQQGHXXv4gCLcBGAs\/s1600\/michael.jpg?ssl=1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"640\" data-original-width=\"960\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-zNYRnVejdRM\/WwH3YwZK2AI\/AAAAAAAABUw\/swvciYdYI1QBxjCTlIJqzQYVQQGHXXv4gCLcBGAs\/s320\/michael.jpg?resize=320%2C213&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><b>Michael Karcher <\/b>hails from Seattle and has been having the time of his life calling around the Pacific Northwest over the last few years &#8211; including calling at the infamous Northwest Folklife Festival and other contra camps. When wasn&#8217;t isn&#8217;t calling, he was pursuing a PhD in statistics at the University of Washington and dancing in and around Seattle.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"caret-color: rgb(77, 77, 77); letter-spacing: 0.1599999964237213px; word-wrap: break-word;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"caret-color: rgb(77, 77, 77); letter-spacing: 0.1599999964237213px; word-wrap: break-word;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"caret-color: rgb(77, 77, 77); letter-spacing: 0.1599999964237213px; word-wrap: break-word;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"caret-color: rgb(77, 77, 77); letter-spacing: 0.1599999964237213px; word-wrap: break-word;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Internationally acclaimed Scottish fiddler and violinist, <b>Brandon Vance,&nbsp;<\/b> is the recipient of Scotland&#8217;s 2017 Royal National M\u00f2d &#8220;Sutherland Cup&#8221; in Scottish Fiddle, as well as being the youngest to win the U.S. National Open Scottish Fiddling Championship in both 1999 and 2001.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"caret-color: rgb(77, 77, 77); letter-spacing: 0.1599999964237213px; word-wrap: break-word;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"caret-color: rgb(77, 77, 77); letter-spacing: 0.1599999964237213px; word-wrap: break-word;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"caret-color: rgb(77, 77, 77); letter-spacing: 0.1599999964237213px; word-wrap: break-word;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-3pJVCvn4Q_I\/WwH24Lm1-HI\/AAAAAAAABUo\/eu7kscXRPEAA2WdZ0cylOko4Abvs9yLzACLcBGAs\/s1600\/bvance%252B7%252B%25281%2529.jpg?ssl=1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"667\" data-original-width=\"1000\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-3pJVCvn4Q_I\/WwH24Lm1-HI\/AAAAAAAABUo\/eu7kscXRPEAA2WdZ0cylOko4Abvs9yLzACLcBGAs\/s320\/bvance%252B7%252B%25281%2529.jpg?resize=320%2C213&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">With a M.M. from the Cleveland Institute of Music, one of the continent&#8217;s most distinguished conservatories,&nbsp; Vance performs with Seattle-based Pacific Music Works, Early Music Vancouver, Northwest Sinfonietta, mandolinist John Reischman, vocalist Nadia Tarnawsky, Alex Fedoriouk, uilleann piper Eliot Grasso, and composer Stephen Rice.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>He will be slinging tunes with the always lovely <b>David Bartley<\/b> who joined us earlier this year. The duo will surely bring fun tunes that will keep your feet flying all night long.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i>This is our last Contra dance till September so come on down and get your dance on!<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"text-align: start;\"><span style=\"background-color: #990000; color: white; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 14px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: seashell; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;tahoma&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;freesans&quot; , sans-serif; text-align: start;\">There is a workshop at 7:30pm.&nbsp; The dances begin at 8:00.&nbsp; All other dance details are on the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/blackdiamonddance.org\/p\/about-our-dance.html\" style=\"color: #ddbb99; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">About Our Dance<\/a>&#8221; page on this website.<\/span><span style=\"background-color: #882222; color: seashell; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;tahoma&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;freesans&quot; , sans-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Karcher calling to David Bartley and Brandon Vance Michael Karcher hails from Seattle and has been having the time of his life calling around the Pacific Northwest over the last few years &#8211; including calling at the infamous Northwest Folklife Festival and other contra camps. When wasn&#8217;t isn&#8217;t calling, he was pursuing a PhD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,29,12,6,30,5,20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-black-diamond-grange","category-brandon-vance","category-community-dance","category-contra-dance","category-david-bartley","category-family-dance","category-micahel-karcher","category-port-angeles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackdiamonddance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/michael.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackdiamonddance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackdiamonddance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackdiamonddance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackdiamonddance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackdiamonddance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackdiamonddance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/blackdiamonddance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackdiamonddance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackdiamonddance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackdiamonddance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackdiamonddance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}