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This is the Bay Area Country Dance Society schedule for the
week of Monday, September 5, 2011.

BACDS sponsors English and American traditional dances in the
San Francisco Bay Area. 

This is fun, relatively easy, community-oriented dancing with
live music.   All dances are taught, no partner is necessary,
and first-timers are welcome unless otherwise noted.

Admission prices:

Supporter: $15
Regular: $10 on Friday/Saturday/Sunday, $9 on weeknights
Member Discount: $2 from regular prices
Student/Low-income: $5
or pay what you can.

Please wear clean shoes with non-marking soles.  

Don't know what we're talking about?  Check out www.bacds.org/newcomers
To see what to expect at our dances, try www.bacds.org/expect

NOTES:

The Tuesday night Peninsula English dance comes back from summer break this
week.  Remember, this dance starts at 7:30 pm.

Saturday's Palo Alto contra features the debut of Tuula Cotter's new band,
Cotter's Ceilidh  ("kay-lee"), featuring a remarkable array of musicians. 
Tuula's a fantastic classical, jazz, Finnish and Celtic fiddler, Winslow Yerxa
is a harmonica virtuouso (and the author of "Harmonica for Dummies"), Joel
Cohen has not only been first cello for the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, he's been
part of the Grammy-nominated and tango-contest-winning Quartet San Francisco
and Patti Cobb (regular pianist for StringFire) plays for contra, Scottish,
English, and rock-and-roll.  This should be a musically exciting evening!


                The Events
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  Tuesday, September 6, 7:30-9:30 pm: PENINSULA ENGLISH dance
  http://www.bacds.org/series/english/peninsula/
  All Saints Episcopal, Waverly at Hamilton, Palo Alto
  with callers Bruce Hamilton and Ric Goldman
  music by Bill Jensen, Stan Kramer, and Susan Worland
  -- SEASON OPENING PARTY --
 

  Wednesday, September 7, 8:00 pm: BERKELEY CONTRA dance 
  http://www.bacds.org/series/contra/berkeley_wed/
  Christ Church Berkeley (formerly Grace North Church) on 
  Cedar between Shattuck and Oxford
  with calling by Erik Hoffman
  Open Band led by StringFire (Patti Cobb, Erik Ievins, Michelle Levy)
  Christ Church doesn't allow street shoes in this hall.


  Saturday, September 10, _7:30_ pm: SAN FRANCISCO ENGLISH dance
  http://www.bacds.org/series/english/san_francisco/
  DanceGround Keriac, 1805 Divisadero (at Bush, 3 blocks N of Geary), SF
    with caller Alan Winston
  Music by David Strong, Betsy St. Aubin, Debra Tayleur
  

  Saturday, September 10, PALO ALTO CONTRA dance
  http://www.bacds.org/series/contra/palo_alto/
  First United Methodist Church (Hamilton & Webster) - upstairs!
  with caller Eric Black
  music by Cotter's Ceilidh 
    (Tuula Cotter, Patti Cobb, Winslow Yerxa, Joel Cohen)



  What is English Country Dancing?
    http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/~winston/ecd/repasky.htmlx
     
  What is Contra Dancing?
    http://www.sbcds.org/contradance/whatis/


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For more information, call (415) 282-7374..
You can also find additional information, including maps and
driving directions, at the BACDS website (<http://www.bacds.org/>).