{"id":58,"date":"2016-02-20T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackdiamonddance.org\/?p=58"},"modified":"2016-02-20T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T20:00:00","slug":"march-5-2016-contra-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackdiamonddance.org\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"March 5, 2016 Contra Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Laura Mae Smith<\/h2>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;and&nbsp;<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Possum Carvers<\/h2>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-SIiT6iHOxp8\/VqlgcZe9HzI\/AAAAAAAAAS8\/r0lDO_kFo4o\/s1600\/Laura%2BMe%2BSmith.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-SIiT6iHOxp8\/VqlgcZe9HzI\/AAAAAAAAAS8\/r0lDO_kFo4o\/s200\/Laura%2BMe%2BSmith.jpg?resize=150%2C200\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a>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)<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: #1a1a1a;\">.&nbsp; Her succinct teaching and quick wit delight dancers near and far, young and old,&nbsp;brand new and experienced.&nbsp; Equally comfortable with contra dances, English Country dances, and squares, she&#8217;ll keep your toes tapping and your mouth grinning long after the band&nbsp;goes home.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-lEDkODtC3WA\/Vqlgca6x4RI\/AAAAAAAAATA\/QZdvGlizm9g\/s1600\/Possum%2BCarvers%2BPT%2BJeanie%2Bet%2Bal.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-lEDkODtC3WA\/Vqlgca6x4RI\/AAAAAAAAATA\/QZdvGlizm9g\/s200\/Possum%2BCarvers%2BPT%2BJeanie%2Bet%2Bal.jpg?resize=200%2C150\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&nbsp;The Possum Carvers from Port Townsend have played for us many times.&nbsp; It&#8217;s always nice to dance&nbsp; 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.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">They enjoy themselves and we enjoy them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">There is a workshop at 7:30pm.&nbsp; The dance begins at 8:00.&nbsp; All other dance details are on the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackdiamonddance.org\/p\/about-our-dance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">About Our Dance<\/a>&#8221; page on this website.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Mae Smith &nbsp;and&nbsp; 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).&nbsp; Her succinct teaching and quick wit delight dancers near and far, young and old,&nbsp;brand new and experienced.&nbsp; Equally comfortable with contra dances, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[14,6,50,17,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-diamond","category-contra-dance","category-laura-mae-smith","category-port-angeles","category-possum-carvers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackdiamonddance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","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=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackdiamonddance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackdiamonddance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackdiamonddance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackdiamonddance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}