Emily plays for our contra on Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Ken Gall will call.

Tuesday, March 29th Indianapolis has our first night of Open Calling, with a mix of new folks giving it a try. We’d love to have lots of our longtime dancers come and support their friends who are taking on the challenge of a new role, up on stage with the mic instead of out on the floor. Entwyned will play.

Tuesday, March 29th, we have music by Entwyned.

“Our” Coffee Zombies play Wednesday (March 30) at the Bloomington contra dance, which starts at at 8:15 pm.

Indianapolis Ceili Band has 2 events this week; on Saturday (3/27), at 2 p.m. concert at the Indianapolis Central Library, and Thursday, (3/31) a fundraiser, to cover costs for their trip to Chicago to compete against other ceili bands in the Midwest Fleadh Cheoil (Midwest Music Festival). Ticket info, etc. on their site.

All dancers are welcome to the Gall’s after our dance 3/22, with Atlantic Crossing. Directions will be available at the dance.

Vermont based Atlantic Crossing is going to play for our contra on Tuesday 3/22, bringing us some traditional, “New England roots” music to dance to.  They have 15+ years experience playing for dances, concerts, and contra dance weekends & special events, & will have copies of at least some of their 5 CDs available for purchase at very reasonable prices. Audio clips are available on their site.

We’re re-scheduling Open Calling to March 29, and may move around other details to accommodate this unexpected bonus. But rest assured, we’re dancing Tuesday nights!

Don and Alberta Lathan join us March 15, playing acoustic Irish and American music on  flute, whistle, banjo, guitar, and bodhran.  Alberta is a two-time qualifier for the prestigious All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil (traditional Irish music competition) in women’s ballads.

Bob Duffy is calling.

The 2011 Board, following last month’s elections, is:

Juliet Port – President
Dianna Davis – Vice President
Ian Fulford
Barry Levitt – Treasurer
Kathryn C. Millis – Secretary
Jamie Shepherd – P.R. Committee
Vickie Stohl – Scheduler

Everyone’s welcome to board meetings, generally 2nd Tuesdays at 6 pm at Earth House.

Join us Tuesday, March 8th, Mardi Gras, for a special “Fat Tuesday” party dance, called by Jonathan Sivier, music by Banjar! (Claire Johnson and Ben Liddy). Beads, green & purple, masks, sparkly, flashy clothes, & anything too bizarre for Halloween are all called for tonight!

Here’s a video of Banjar! in a tamer environment:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHo94WPIUj8

If you could dance for hours, and hours, you may want to “gypsy” over to Urbana for Marchfest on the 18-20th, or Cincinnati for Pigtown Fling on March 25 – 27th.

Each is just about 2 hours away; you’ll recognize friends there!

Early March is one of those times of year when we don’t know what the weather will be like! Snow? Rain? A lovely, sunny & relatively warm day?

Our first dance of March (3/1/11) is also one of those times we don’t know what we’ll get. We do know Ken Gall is calling, but with Open Band, well, we could have 5 banjos or none, a marching band’s worth of percussion or none, maybe a harp!

Come find out!