Complete listing of CONNtra dances Special events and announcements Dance series/festivals/camps CT bands CT callers CT musicians CT tunes CT choreography CT CDs

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

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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

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Folk dancing in Connecticut:

Connecticut Folk Dance

Always on Sunday, international folk dance group in West Hartford, CT

Contra dance bands in Connecticut:

Celtic Knots (e-mail) The Cicadas e-mail) Dogtown (e-mail) The Fiddleheads (e-mail) GET REEL! (e-mail) Heart's Ease (e-mail) Jackson Pike Skifflers 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) Wry Bred (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: Sowing and Branching Out
Ken Sweeney, David Carpenter, Tom Hodgson: Tapping the Tradition (scroll down to the bottom of the page)

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Last modified March 4, 2010.