These cows are smiling for a reason – Come dance with us!
All event community calendar: Please check the menu for specific dance events and locations. We list regional dance events as a service to the community. Only those events with an OFB tag are our events and are sponsored by us.
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David White (fiddle, banjo)
Roger Gold (guitar)
Please take note that our March 1st ECD will be at Bethesda UMC at Haw Creek Commons; 315 Old Haw Creek Rd., Asheville NC, 28805. (Corner of Bethesda Rd. and Old Haw Creek Rd.) https://www.bethesdaumcavl.org/
3:30pm-4:00pm, Pre-Dance Workshop – Regular dancers assisting Beginners with basic ECD dance figures.
4:00pm-6:30pm, Dance
$8/$7 for OFB Members
All are welcome; no partner necessary; wear comfortable clothes and shoes; bring a snack from time to time to share at the break; fragrance-free dance.
TBA with TBA
Instruction period 7:30-8:00, beginners welcome!
THE DANCING BEARS (John Culp, Lew Gelfond, Jeff Hersk, Mark Langner) with BARBARA GROH
Instruction period 7:30-8:00, beginners welcome!
All instruments and skill levels are welcome to come play tunes. We’ll be learning some popular tunes from the Elizabethan period to Jane Austen times to modern times. Let’s share our resources and skills and have fun learning these beautiful tunes. Please bring ECD music if you have it. If not we can share. Led by Linda Hunt.
Jane Rothfield (fiddle)
Bill Quern (banjos, melodeon, mandolin)
Alan Carr (bass, guitar)
Sarah Gowan (guitar and English concertina)
CROOKED PINE (Craig Bannerman, Troy Harrison, Frank McConnell and Marion Boatwright) with CLINTON ROSS
Instruction period 7:30-8:00, beginners welcome!
3:30pm-4:00pm, Pre-Dance Workshop – Regular dancers assisting Beginners with basic ECD dance figures.
4:00pm-6:30pm, Dance
$8/$7 for OFB Members
All are welcome; no partner necessary; wear comfortable clothes and shoes; bring a snack from time to time to share at the break; fragrance-free dance.
Lew Gelfond (fiddle)
John Culp (mandolin)
Mark Langner (guitar)
Jeff Hersk (bass)
CONTRAFORCE (Joey Dorwart, Karin McQuade, Jimi Peirano, Andrae Raffield) with TAMARA MCGOVERN
Instruction period 7:30-8:00, beginners welcome!
A community dance especially aimed at families with school-aged children. Circles, mixers, long-ways, squares, singing and clapping games, and other set dances, carefully chosen considering the motor skills and social development of children ages 6-12. Younger kids may need more parental support, but are welcome and will have fun. All dances are taught and called, no experience is needed and all ages are welcome. Children must be accompanied by an a
dult, but adults can come without a child!! The family dance band is an open band, so if you play contra dance music, come and play! Youngstes who play an instrument are encouraged to give playing a try!
Members are always welcome to observe at OFB Board meetings.
Please check the calendar before coming, as we may not meet every month.
A community waltz welcoming both dancers and musicians to participate. We are refining skills together both as dancers and waltz musicians. Music is available.