These cows are smiling for a reason – Come dance with us!
Join/Renew your OFB Membership for 2020 during our September membership campaign
Why become an OFB member?
- Save $$: Costs only $5.00 for the entire year and you save $1 on admission at each dance, including our Thursday night contra dance, as well as the Sunday English Country Dances. It’s free money after only 5 dances. You could even spend it on an OFB t-shirt.
- Voting: You will be eligible to vote at the annual meeting plus enjoy tasty food and drink and lively conversation at this community event.
- Board: Serve on the OFB Board and shape the future of our dance.
- Be in the know: Have OFB information delivered conveniently to your email doorstep in our newsletter.
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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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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.
Roger Gold (guitar)
Laura Light (fiddle)
Nic Coker, Haakon Oyen, Art Shuster with DIANE SILVER
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
$7/$6 for OFB Members
All are welcome; no partner necessary; wear comfortable clothes and shoes; bring a snack from time to time to share; fragrance-free dance.
Tom Cunningham (fiddle)
Kate Sanders (piano)
Luis deLeon (percussion)
The Fourth Annual English Country Dance Weekend is happening Feb. 7 – Feb. 9, 2020! Check the website for all the details. Registration is almost full, so get on board now!
Joanna Reiner Wilkinson, Weekend Leader.
Foxfire, Music (Daron Douglass, fiddle; Karen Alexrod, piano.)
HOT COFFEE BREAKDOWN (Tom Cunningham, Luis DeLeon, Kate Sanders) with DOUG SINGLETON
Instruction period 7:30-8:00, beginners welcome!
TBA with TBA
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.
Come Dance to Asheville’s Community Band – Front Porchestra with calling by Tom and Myra. Front Porchestra is led by Laura Light and rehearses on Wednesday evenings. They welcome all musicians to join them any time.
BIG EYED RABBIT (Marion Boatwright, Briggs Hamilton, Barb Massey, Don Massey) with JACK MITCHELL
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
$7/$6 for OFB Members
All are welcome; no partner necessary; wear comfortable clothes and shoes; bring a snack from time to time to share; fragrance-free dance.
Eli Howells (fiddle)
Alan Best (mandolin)
Kiah Wells (guitar)
Aosha Wells (bass)