Jim Oakden (CA)

Program Director for this camp, Jim will also be inspiring us with his music, played on any number of the following instruments: guitar, mandolin, cittern, banjo, tambura, bouzouki, clarinet, sax, whistle, bagpipe, bombard, zurna, recorder, dumbek, bodhran, hurdy gurdy, accordion, and piano.

Kalia Kliban (CA)

A graduate of Berkeley Morris and founder of Sebastopol's Apple Tree Morris, Kalia brings many years of experience in Cotswold Morris, sword dancing, and American and English step dancing (clog) to American Dance and Music Week. An exemplary dancer and an excellent teacher, her classes in display dance are always well received.

Carol Ormand (OH)

Carol Ormand has been a big hit as a caller in the Midwest since 1990. With delightful humor and energy, she calls contras and squares at dances and dance weekends around the counry. She is known for her great dance selections and her concise, relaxed teaching style. Besides contra and square dancing, Carol enjoys dancing Morris, rapper sword, longsword, English country, Scandinavian, and just about any other kind of dance she has come across. She also served on the Board of Directors for CDSS.

Kathy Anderson (OH)

Kathy Anderson is a fervent advocate of well-taught and called squares, bringing this enthusiasm to thousands of dancers across the US, Canada, and Europe. An old-time banjo and piano player, she started dancing squares and contras to old-time music in the MidWest, and soon started calling at every opportunity. Her taste in good flow, quirky contras, and high energy squares makes for exciting dancing.

Daron Douglas (LA)

Daron Douglas plays fiddle for English country and contra dancing with the background of a traditional Appalachian upbringing. She thanks her mountain grandmother for her ballads and also for her preoccupation with gardening. Daron has played with the Knoxville Early Music Project, the Hominy Mamas, (a trio once billed at a library party as "providing an evening of song and comedy" even though they thought of their work as traditional Appalachian singing games!). She also plays with the contra dance band Misbehavin', known for their original waltzes CD, "Just Over the Mountain." Daron has been on the staff at Country Dance and Song Society dance camps, at Ashokan, and at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C. She now lives and plays music in New Orleans, and tours throughout the US to play English country dances and contra dances with the band Goldcrest. Besides being a working musician, Daron is also a professional weaver.

Richard Powers (CA)

Richard Powers has been researching and reconstructing historic social dances for twenty-five years and is currently a full-time instructor at Stanford University's Dance Division.

Andrea Hoag (MD)

Andrea Hoag has been performing professionally since 1982 at venues across the U.S., including The Kennedy Center and Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival, as well as in England and Scandinavia. With versatility and improvisation as her hallmarks, she appears on numerous recordings. Her album Fire & Water, featuring her original compositions, earned her an award as Best Traditional Folk Instrumentalist by the Washington (D.C.) Area Music Association. Andrea performs with mandolin/guitar virtuoso Tom Espinola, the eclectic quartet Cabaret Sauvignon, and Norwegian fiddle master Loretta Kelley.

Anita Anderson (WA)

Anita (the composer of "Bus Stop Reel") brings a large bag of tricks to her piano playing, with influences from do-wop, English, ethnic, and vintage dance music to add to the mix. She also takes the dancers' point of view in creating music that is compelling and easy to dance to. Based in Seattle, she plays all over the country at camps, festivals, and local dances. Attend her workshop to spice up your backup playing, learn how to choose dance tunes, and work better with callers.

Stuart Kenney (MA)

Stuart Kenney is much in demand for his work on upright bass which has taken him to dance concert venues across the US, the Caribbean and to England's Sidmouth Folk Festival. He is a member of the nationally-touring band Wild Asparagus.

Annie Johnston(OR)

Annie Johnston has been crowned a "camp chef extraordinaire" by campers who've had the pleasure of enjoying her sumptuous meals. She knows what dancers want, and generously provides cuisine with her special flair.

Marty Brenneis(CA)

Marty Brenneis was a rock-n-roll sound engineer in a former life. It was not long after he started contra dancing that he began twiddling the knobs on the sound boards at dances. "I have to listen and dance to this music too, so it has to be good."

The Groovemongers ( More at Groovemongers.com)

C.W. Abbot (RI)

C.W. is the band's improvising mandolinist extroardinaire. He comes from a more southern musical tradition, but has embraced new styles such as French Canadian reels and Irish jigs with abandon. In addition to mandolin, he's played guitar, bass, fiddle, pedel steel, and jug. These days he's mostly sticking to contra dance music with mandolin and guitar. He surreptitiously practices his mandolin while behind the wheel on long car trips.

Jane Knoeck (NY)

Jane started piano lessons during the Leave-it-to-Beaver era, and spent many years in the classical world as a pianist and vocalist. Now, she is the epitome of musical versatility. In addition to the contra piano and accordian that she plays with the Groovemongers, she plays piano for English country dancing, and weaves all kinds of musical styles into our contra repertoire, including French Canadian, jazz, classical, and Latin music.

Rebecca McCallum (NY)

Rebecca grew up playing classical violin, but began to transform from a "violinist" to a "fiddler" shortly after college. In the midst of the driving rhythm and danceability of her fiddling, you can still hear signs of that classical precision and tone. She favors northern styles of music in her contra fiddling, but also indulges her Mediterranean roots by playing in a Greek band as well.

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