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Promoting traditional English and American music and dance

BACDS Events Calendar

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Schedule of Events

DATE(S) STYLE LOCATION CALLER(S)
TEACHER(S)
MUSICIANS
May 3 ENGLISH ASE Bruce Hamilton
Bruce Hamilton with Bill Jensen, David Mostardi
May 7 ONLINE ONLINE
Cojiro (Jess Newman, Mark Price) at the SUNDAY NBCDS Online Waltz Party, 7pm–8pm PDT. More info available at https://nbcds.org/ Not a BACDS event — this event is sponsored by our sister organization the North Bay Country Dance Society.
May 8 CONTRA HVC
Celia Ramsey with Lee Anne Welch, Conall Barber, & Rebecca King — Not a BACDS event — this event is sponsored by the SF Bay Contra Dance (https://sfbaycontra.org).   Preregistration suggested; vaccination & masks required.
May 8 ENGLISH FSJ Alan Winston
Alan Winston with Mary Tabor, Robin Lockner, Bill Jensen
May 8 ENGLISH ONLINE Kalia Kliban
Kalia Kliban with Odd Sundays English Garage Band and other favorite recorded musicians. Kalia calls solo adaptations of English Country dances either to recorded or live music. NOTE: as of November 2021, this series has moved to the even Sundays of the month, and is now the Oddly Even Sunday English Dance Party. Doors open 1:00 pm PDT (sound check and chat), dance starts at 1:30PM PDT. Link will appear the Thursday or Friday before the dance on bacds-announce mailing list (subscribe here) and on the Odd Sundays mailchimp list (to learn how to join that Odd Sundays email list, email Sharon at sharon@bacds.org. More information and planned set list at https://bacds.org/series/virtual/oddsundays.html
May 11 ENGLISH CCB Sharon Green
Sharon Green with Charlie Hancock, Anne Bingham Goess, David Mostardi - NOTE: Dance now runs from 7:45-10:00 pm
May 13 ENGLISH/REGENCY SME Alan Winston
Alan Winston with Divertimento With James Langdell, Paul Kostka, and friends - note new starting time - doors 7:15, dancing 7:45
May 14 ENGLISH SPC Sharon Green
Sharon Green with Caroline McCaskey, Craig Johnson
May 22 CONTRA HVC Eric Black
Eric Black with Rodney Miller, Paul Kotapish, Daniel Steinberg — Experimental COVID policy for this dance (see the event web site for details) — Not a BACDS event — this event is sponsored by the SF Bay Contra Dance (https://sfbaycontra.org).
May 22 ENGLISH ONLINE Sharon Green
Sharon Green with Odd Sundays English Garage Band and other favorite recorded musicians. Sharon calls solo adaptations of English Country dances either to recorded or live music. NOTE: as of November 2021, this series has moved to the even Sundays of the month, and is now the Oddly Even Sunday English Dance Party. Doors open 1:00 pm PDT (sound check and chat), dance starts at 1:30PM PDT. Link will appear the Thursday or Friday before the dance on bacds-announce mailing list (subscribe here) and on the Odd Sundays mailchimp list (to learn how to join that Odd Sundays email list, email Sharon at sharon@bacds.org. More information and planned set list at https://bacds.org/series/virtual/oddsundays.html
May 24 ENGLISH ASE Bruce Hamilton
Bruce Hamilton with Laurie Chastain, Bill Jensen
May 25 ENGLISH CCB Alan Winston
Alan Winston with Debra Tayleur, Judy Linsenberg, Charlie Hancock (Open Band Night) NOTE - this dance now runs from 7:45-10:00pm
May 28 ENGLISH CCB Kalia Kliban
Kalia Kliban with Jon Berger & Gary Thomas - Experienced English dance, we ask that you already be familiar with standard figures. Dance 7:30 - 10:00

Dance Venues

VENUE NAME ADDRESS CITY
ASE All Saints Episcopal Church 555 Waverley St Palo Alto
CCB Christ Church East Bay 2138 Cedar Street Berkeley
FSJ First Unitarian Church of San Jose 160 N 3rd St San Jose
HVC Hill and Valley Club - 1808 B Street (at Linden) 1808 B Street Hayward
ONLINE online wherever the cloud
SME St. Mark's Episcopal Church 600 Colorado Avenue Palo Alto
SPC St. John's Presbyterian NOT THIS ONE USE SJP 25 Lake San Francisco