Our amazing musical staff
Dave Bartley (Seattle)
Dave Bartley - the B in KGB (and in its English undercover version, MI-5) - is
a brilliant musican and composer.
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Charlie Hancock
Charlie Hancock (CA), pianist and accordionist, is equally adept playing
for English country, Scottish country, contras, and display dancing. He
has played for BACDS dances, camps, and balls for 18 years, with
occasional gigs further afield, including Pinewoods and the Portland
(OR) English ball. He is a member of Bay Area folk ensemble Euphonia,
and has recorded with Sylvia Herold, Holly Tannen, and Cathie
Whitesides. Infusing jazz, swing, and Irish music, he plays with
brilliance, drive, and clarity.
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Rebecca King
Rebecca King teaches music to hundreds of children in the Sonoma Valley
Schools. By night, she plays piano at English Country dances, and in
the contradance bands Flashpoint and Luceo. Her recordings include
Swinging On The Gate for the Bay Area Country Dance Society, and
Farnicle Huggy, a collection of 18th cen. English Country dances.
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Shira Kammen
Multi-instrumentalist and occasional 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 groups Ensemble
Alcatraz, Project Ars Nova, and Medieval Strings, she has also worked
with Sequentia, Hesperion XX, the Boston Camerata, the Balkan group
Kitka, the King's Noyse, the Newberry and Folger Consorts, the Oregon,
California and San Francisco Shakespeare Festivals, and is the founder
of Class V Music, an ensemble dedicated to providing music on river
rafting trips. The strangest place Shira has played is in the elephant
pit of the Jerusalem Zoo.
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Michelle Levy
Michelle Levy has been performing on and exploring the possibilities of the
violin/viola for over 20 years.
Starting out classically, she fell in love with the spontaneity of folk music
while in college, and soon began a career focused on accompanying vocalists,
improvising, and performing ancient music on fiddle, viola, and Medieval
vielle. She currently performs with the Boston Camerata and regularly plays for
English Country dances & Contra dances on the west coast with lots of groovy
folks, recently co-founding dance bands The Whoots (Jim Oakden, Noel Cragg, Ben
Schreiber) and TriTonic (Anita Anderson & Jim Oakden). Michelle has played for
Playford Balls, English Week Dance & Music Camp, Fall Frolick, & Spring Fever.
She just released the album Forces of Nature (March 2012), a collaboration with
Shira Kammen.
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Wayne Hankin
Multi-instrumentalist Wayne Hankin 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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Anne Bingham Goess
Anne loves playing for Irish dancing (when she's not dancing herself!) She has
entertained at the Starry Plough, the UICC and festivals with the Wild Hog Ceili
Band and Celtic chanteuse Melanie O'Reilly, toured with the Three Irish
Tenors, and brightened Krakow nightlife with a solo concert at the cafe Nowa MÅoda
Polska. She can also be heard playing for English and Contra dances with the
Raggedy Annes, and singing, dancing and fiddling onstage with the Christmas
Revels.
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Kalia Kliban
Kalia, an expert in performance dance from Appalachian clog to morris to
longsword, is the house caller for the Sebastopol English dance, and a rising
star on the national scene. A fixture at BACDS Family Week, she's the
co-programmer of this year's Fall Frolick.
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Sharon Green
simply loves welcoming newcomers to the joys of English country dance. In 1991
she co-founded Country Dance*New York's all-English True Brit weekend, an event
she organized till her move to California in 2002. In California, Sharon soon
became actively involved with BACDS, serving as program director for Mendocino
English Week in 2005 and 2006. In 2008, she was appointed the first programmer
for BACDS's new all-English weekend, a post she held for three years.
Sharon is very happy to be back welcoming folks to Fall Frolick and serving as
co-programmer for this very special event.
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Doug Olsen
A song leader with an extensive repertoire of Elizabethan drinking songs - and
more! - Doug always offers a good time.
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Nick Cuccia
"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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