Friday night’s coming. Here are Gaye & the Coffee Zombies earlier this year

httpv://youtu.be/gzRUfPOVWgw

Here’s the rough schedule. Nice clean versions available at the dance:

Friday night
8 – 9:45: contra to Gaye Fifer and Coffee Zombies
10 – midnight: contra to Dugan Murphy and Cocks of the North with Pokey

Saturday
10am: intermediate waltz with Gaye or beginning waltz with Vickie11 am: lindy hop swing with Doug & Fiona or Scandinavian dances with Gaye and Dianna
11 contra flourishes with Doug & Fiona or caller/musician discussion with Gaye and Dianna
1:15 contra with end effects with Dugan and Coffee Zombies
2:30 contra with unusual progressions with Dugan and Coffee Zombies
4 pm: advanced contra with Gaye and Cocks of the North plus Pokey
5:30 dinner break
7 couple dances
8 – 10:30 contra with Dugan and Cocks of the North
8:30 costume contest
10:45 – 1am contra with Gaye and Coffee Zombies

Sunday
10:30 – 12: brunch & waltzing
12 – 3:30  contra with Dugan and Coffee Zombies, then Gaye and Cocks of the North with Pokey

Everybody is welcome to Gypsy Moon Ball; no need to register. If you want to mail a registration, forms are here, but feel free to show up carrying a pair of clean shoes (the church refinished the floors last year and it’s in our lease!), cash or check, water bottle, and other standard dance things.

LEDfoot with John Teskey, this Tuesday, October 15.

Dance to Yellowjacket Stringband (Urbana) tonight. Hopping? Yelping? Heartpounding? Why else the name? Come dance & find out on Tuesday, October 8th, with Barry Dupen calling.

Gypsy Moon Ball month is finally here! Here’s a video of Dugan (who’s flying back from Maine to call for us) calling, and the Coffee Zombies playing, from spring 2012:

httpv://youtu.be/EuMIrakdZDg

We’re extending the early registration deadline for Gypsy Moon Ball! Mail in your form Postmarked by  Wednesday, October 2nd, or bring it to the dance on Tuesday, October 1st.  We got a couple of requests from dancers who had trouble meeting the deadline, and in contra’s spirit of inclusion, we’re offering the same extra time to all.

Please download a pdf, or at least a jpg of the front,  fill in the blanks, write a check, and come dance Tuesday Oct.1, to open calling with new resident Indianapolis fiddler Ben Smith, Mario Joven, and Dianna Davis.

Gypsy Moon Ball is less than three weeks away. If you’re not already swooning with excitement about dancing to the Coffee Zombies & Cocks of the North with Pokey on drums, consider this:

httpv://youtu.be/PH50RPpAzdQ

Welcome new Indianapolis fiddler Ben Smith! Come dance to him, Mario Joven, and Dianna Davis with Open Calling on October 1.

Our final contra for September features Bob Duffy calling to Entwyned.

Members of the Indianapolis Ceili Band play Tuesday, September 17, to calling by David Ernst.