CONNtra CONNection

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Conntra dancing! Complete listing of CONNtra dances
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Contra dance events in Connecticut:

Contra dancing in Connecticut:
Cornwall Community Contra Dance: 1st Saturdays (except July 4th)
Cranbury Country Dance: (Norwalk): 1st & 3rd Fridays, Sept. (3rd only)-May
Danbury Contra Dance: Mostly 4th Saturdays
Family Barn Dances: (Newtown): Sunday afternoons
Granby Family Contra Dance: 1st Fridays
Hartford Country Dance: 2nd Saturdays, all year
Mystic Contra Dance: 4th Saturdays, all year
The New Haven Country Dancers: 1st & 3rd Saturdays, occasional 5th Saturday, all year
Quiet Corner Contra Dance: (Hampton): 1st Saturdays, September-June
Round Hill Country Dances: (Greenwich): 2nd Saturdays, September-July
Shingdig at the Barn!: (Enfield): 4th Sundays
Contra dance festivals and camps in Connecticut:
NOMAD (NOrtheast Music, Art and Dance, yearly festival; Wilbur Cross High School, New Haven, CT); No 2008 festival is planned
HCD Dancefest: CONNtra, Cajun/Zydeco, and swing dancing; held annually on the third Saturday in August at the West Hartford Town Hall
Folk dancing in Connecticut:
Connecticut Folk Dance
Always on Sunday, international folk dance group in West Hartford, CT


Contra dance bands in Connecticut:
fiddle head Celtic Knots (e-mail)
Dogtown (e-mail)
The Fiddleheads (e-mail)
GET REEL! (e-mail)
Heart's Ease (e-mail)
Jackson Pike Skifflers
Neo-Contras (e-mail)
Please & Thank-you String Band (e-mail)
The Reel Thing (e-mail)
Step It Up! (e-mail)
Still the Homegrown Band (e-mail)
The Swivets
Thread City String Band (e-mail)
Wild Goose Nation (e-mail)
Wild Notes (e-mail)


Contra dance callers in Connecticut:

Al Brozek e-mail 203-888-5049
Patricia Campbell e-mail 203-426-5191
Bill Fischer e-mail 203-393-3464
Jim Gregory e-mail 860-561-5585
Christine Hale e-mail 860-233-6603
Steve Holland e-mail 203-288-7476
Peter Leibert e-mail ---
David Lindsay e-mail 203-248-7188
Ed Potter e-mail 203-226-6681
Ralph Sweet e-mail 860-749-4494


CDs of CONNtra Bands

Wild Notes debut CD Sowing and their new CD Branching Out


The Contra Dance Ring


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Last modified February 16, 2009.