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Playford's PaJaMa Party

January 15, 2010

Band

Playford's PaJaMa (PAm, JAne, MArtha) (Pamela Carson Stoll and Martha Edwards, Fiddles, and Jane Knoek of Rochester, NY, keyboard)

Callers

Mark Rice and Missy Reisenleiter

Dances

Sicilian Circle to Smash the Windows and St Anne's Reel
The Introduction
Bridge of Athlone to Dominion Reel
Lilli Burlero
The Bishop
Free Waltz to the Gentle Maiden
Sellenger's Round
Handel With Care
Wa' is Me, What Mun I Do?
Money Musk
LaRusse Quadrille
First Lady
Free Waltz to Amelia's Waltz

Presidents' Ball

February 19, 2010

Band:

Tu'Penny Uprights

Callers

Dr. John Ramsay and Friends

The PRESIDENTS BALL will feature dances and presidential vignettes by Dr. John Ramsay. This will be a dress-up Ball - vintage attire admired but not required. Choose your own vintage!

Dr. Ramsay is a noted dance teacher and dance historian. For this evening's enjoyment, he has put together a snapshot of historical dances done by, for, or about presidents of the United States. From "George Washington's Favorite Cotillion" to a surprise Special Dance for President Obama, the evening will trace a history of American folk dancing.

 

 

English Country Dance

March 19, 2010

Band

Kristin Graham on keyboard and Bob Borcherding on fiddle

Callers

Chrystal Gallacci Jones

English Country Dance

April 16, 2010

Band

Kristin Graham on keyboard, Martha Edwards on fiddle and Tim Hirzel on flute.

Callers

Jeff Sadler, Mark Rice and Missy Reisenleiter

English Country Dance

May 21, 2010

Band:  Hibernia Station

Dances

Caller: Martha Edwards

The Ragg (1726)
Knole Park    (1788)
Mr. Isaac’s Maggot (1695)
Elverton Grove (1712)
Autumn in Amherst by Philippe Callens
Jack’s Health (1686)

Caller: Robert Green

Wednesday’s Whim by Chrystal Gallacci Jones
Jack’s Sparrow by Robert Green
Wings by Robert Green
The Castigated Neighbor by Robert Green
Puck’s Deceit - Brooke Friendly & Chris Sackett

 

English Country Dance

June 18, 2010

Band

Musical accompaniment provided by Reel Women

Dances

Caller: Jeff Sadler

Young Virgin of Fifteen Years
Lilliburlero
Delia’s Sister
A Girl's Best Friend
Jovial Beggars


Caller: Mark Rice

The Geud Man of Ballangigh
Turning by Threes
Jacques Latin
The Young Widow
Sicilian Circle

English Country Dance

July 16, 2010

Band

Musical accompaniment provided by the Tu'Penny Players

Caller: 

Peter Wollenberg

Dances

Mistwold
Mulberry Garden
Trip to Tunbridge
Emma's Commencement
Portsmouth
Queen's Jig
Wibsey Roundabout
Wood Duck
Trip to Paris
Corelli's Maggot
Lover's Knot
Sprigs of Laurel
Yellow Stockings
The Ragg

 

 

English Country Dance

August 20, 2010

Band

The Tu'Penny Players

Caller

Robert Green, who was freshly back from an English Callers Workshop with Joseph Pimentel at the CDSS camp, Pinewoods.

Dances

Childgrove
I Care Not For These Ladies
The Geud Man O' Ballangigh
The Duke of Kent's Waltz
Jack's Sparrow
Faithless Nancy Dawson

Yellow Stockings
Treasure of the Big Woods
The Physical Snob
Easter Morn
Turning By Threes
Mr. Isaac's Maggot

Waltz of our choosing

Other dances
Lover's Knot
Mage in a Cree
Lilli Burlero

English Country Dance

September 17, 2010

Band

Musical accompaniment provided by the Tu'Penny Uprights

Callers

MR2 (Mark Rice and Missy Reisenleiter

Dances

Missy
The Ragg
The Introduction
Hambleton’s Round-O

Mark
Winter Solstice
Barbarini’s Tambourine
Sicilian Circle
Steamboat
Levi Jackson Rag

Missy
Fenterlarick
The Spaniard

English Country Dance

October 15, 2010

English Country Dance

Band

Musical accompaniment provided by the Tu'Penny Players (Martha Edwards and Ben Schreiber on fiddle and Kristin Graham on keyboard)

Callers

Kay Tomlinson and Bob Green

Dances

Kay Tomlinson

  • Geud Man of Ballangigh
  • Childgrove

Bob Green

  • I Care Not for These Ladies
  • Jack’s Sparrow
  • Elverton Grove

Kay Tomlinson

  • Saint Louis

Bob Green

  • Puck’s Deceit
  • Treasure of the Big Woods
  • The Physical Snob
  • Mr. Isaac’s Maggot

Kay Tomlinson

  • The Ragg

 

English Country Dance

November 17, 2010

Band

Musical accompaniment provided by the Tu'Penny Players

Caller

Chrystal Gallacci Jones

Dances

Geud Man of Ballangigh

Maid's Morris

If All the World Were Paper

Muriel’s Measure

Chrystal Saylor (Tune-Female Saylor)

Yellow Stockings

Fourpence Halfpenny Farthing

Well Hall

The Ragg

Sion House

Fenterlarick

 

 

English Country Dance

December 17, 2010

Yuletide Ball flyer

Band

Musical accompaniment provided by the Tu'Penny Players

Martha Edwards, violin
Ben Schreiber, violin
Kristin Graham, piano

Callers

Peter Wollenberg and Friends

Peter Wollenberg
Jeff Sadler
Missy Reisenleiter
Mark Rice
Bob Green

Dances

Queens Jig – Jeff 
Miss Sayer's Allemande – Mark
Haymakers – Peter 
Castigated Neighbor  – Bob 
Margaret's Waltz  – Peter
Jacob Hall's Jig –  Peter


Les Quatre Berceaux with Dance Discovery
Demo 2  with Blackthorn Morris

 

Bar a Bar – Peter
Come Let's Be Merry – Missy
Trip to Easthampstead – Peter
Fenterlarick – Peter
Sellenger's Round – Mark

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