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2009 Fall Dance Weekend</FONT><BR> <FONT SIZE=+2>At <I><A HREF="http://www.camping.org/monte.htm">Monte
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<a name="Bruce"><img height="350" src="brucehamilton.jpg" alt="Bruce Hamilton">
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<em>Bruce Hamilton</em>--Thoughtful, experienced, internationally respected,
Bruce Hamilton, a caller since 1971, will improve your dancing.
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<em>Gary Roodman (MA)</em> One of the best-known English-dance devisers
active today,
Gary's classics include "Good Man of Cambridge", "Vivaldi in Paradise", "Mary
K", "Handel with Care", and many more.
<a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~gmrwebsite/">Gary's website</a>
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<em>Laura Mé Smith (WA)</em> --Charming, energetic, clear,
Laura Mé leads English and contra dancing all over the West Coast.
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<em>Sharon Green</em> -- A live wire sparking English dancing on both
coasts and in several foreign countries, Sharon will bring us new dances and
old favorites, including a sampling from Jane Austen's day.
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<em>Judy Erickson (MA)</em>--Founder of the fabled Orion longsword team, Judy
has been a hit at English Week and in workshops for the Bay Area morris
community, among other places. She brings an analytical sensibility to dance
movement, and teaches in a way that engages both body and brain.
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Here's David Macemon's video of the "Good Old Way" demo from Judy's longsword class at
Mendocino English Week in 2008.
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<em>David Roodman</em>--(Airborne, far left) An astonishing Morris and
rapper dancer who has
performed with teams ranging from New York's Bouwerie Boys to
Washington's Kingsessing Morris and Cutting Edge Rapper, David is scheduled to
teach Morris. However, if time permits and enough dancers
with rapper experience want a quick rapper fix, he's happy to share
some rapper insights.
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Leonard Lu's video of David Roodman and Theodore Hodapp doing a morris jig in
two different traditions.
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<em>Jon Berger</em>
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An astonishing fiddler and concertina player, who has toured with _Tempest_,
recorded with multiple groups, and plays with passion and drive for morris,
sword, English and contra dance.
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<em>Noel Cragg</em> <br>
plays inspiring morris dance music (and dances himself, with Deer Creek),
and jazzy, swinging English (with Jon and Erin in Midnight Smorgasbord,
among others), contra dance tunes (often with Chris Knepper). Master of
piano and squeezebox, Noel brings a shot of brilliant energy to everything
he plays.
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<em>Charlie Hancock</em>
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Pianist and accordion player Charlie Hancock is a star in the Bay Area English
and contra dance scenes, and more. From jazz to swing to Irish music, Charlie
plays with brilliance, drive, and clarity.
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Multi-instrumentalist <em>Wayne Hankin</em> has toured with Cirque du Soleil, led
classes for musicians and singers at Mendocino English Week and Lark in the
Morning, and played beautifully on more than one recording with Meredith Monk,
Jewel, They Might be Giants, and the New York Ensemble for Early Music.
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<em>Shira Kammen</em>
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Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Shira Kammen has spent well over half her
life exploring the worlds of early and traditional music. A member for many
years of the early music Ensembles Alcatraz and Project Ars Nova, and Medieval
Strings, she has also worked with Sequentia, Hesperion XX, the Boston Camerata,
the Balkan group Kitka, the Oregon, California and San Francisco Shakespeare
Festivals, and is the founder of Class V Music, an
ensemble dedicated to performance on river rafting trips. She has performed and
taught in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Israel, Morocco, and
Japan, and on the Colorado, Rogue and Klamath Rivers.
Her website is <a href="http://shirakammen.com">shirakammen.com</a>.
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<em>Jim Oakden</em><br>
has gone through
a succession of musical stages, from early music to traditional. Jim has
been a staff musician at many West Coast camps including Fall Weekend, both
by himself and as part of <A href="http://www.thegups.com/">the GUPpies</A>,
and is currently active as a musician for English country dances, contras,
Irish and Cape Breton sessions and dances from Brittany. Jim is a board
member
of the Traditional Dancers of Santa Cruz, led
the band for the 2000 Playford Ball, programmed the 2001 and 2002 BACDS
Fall Weekends, two American Weeks at (and the 2009 and 2010 English Weeks)
at Mendocino.
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<em>Erin Vang</em><br>
Erin Vang holds degrees in horn performance from St. Olaf College and
Northwestern University and has studied with Boris Rybka, Kendall
Betts, and Dale Clevenger. She freelanced in the Chicago area for
seven years, including performances with the Lyric Opera of Chicago,
the Ravinia Festival Orchestra, Symphony II, and Symphony of the
Shores, and tours of Korea and Germany with the Chicago Chamber
Orchestra. Since moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, she has been
appearing with the Oakland East Bay, San Jose, Marin, Monterey,
Berkeley, Napa Valley, and Santa Rosa Symphonies; Symphony Silicon
Valley, Sacramento and Women's Philharmonics, Festival and Pocket
Opera companies, and the Foghorn Quartet. Erin and various beasts
from the brass family have also been known to show up at Bay Area
English country dance events and for several years perpetrated tuba
for Bufflehead Northwest Morris.
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<em>Chuck Ward</em> and his trusty piano started English dance in the Bay
Area many years ago, and is still an incomparable favorite, , treasured by
dancers and musicians all over the United States. This year CDSS
(Country Dance & Song Society) honored Chuck by awarding him its
Lifetime Contribution Award. The award will be presented to Chuck in
a ceremony to be held in the Bay Area on March 28, 2010.
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<a name="Doug"></a>
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Leading singalongs and singing music hall favorites is
that Dickens Fair favorite, <em>Doug Olsen</em> of <a
href="http://www.oakashthorn.com/">Oak, Ash & Thorn.</a> [There's
no way mere words can capture their music, so we won't even try. <a
href="http://www.oakashthorn.com/">Go buy their CDs!</a>]
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"But I *am* dancing! It's just that my partner is electronic and has a lot
of knobs!" is how Nick responds when asked why he's listening to music instead
of dancing. Taking equal joy in producing
contra, English, and other folk and couple dance music of the highest quality,
Nick's credits as lead or assistant sound engineer include numerous BACDS
events and camps (English Week, Fall Weekend, Fall Ball, Sierra Swing, and
local tours by The Flying Romanos, Pete Grassby, and Four in a Bar),
the first two NBCDS Mad Robin English balls, the San Francisco Free Folk
Festival, and the Fairfield (IA) Folk Arts and Dance Co-op's annual Bare
Necessities dance weekends.
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