Our next contradance will be on Friday April 6th at the Presbyterian Church in Cooperstown. The featured band will be the Flying Garbanzos with caller Hannah Otten.
Flying Garbanzos is a four-piece contra dance band based in North Adams, Mass. Band members are Eric Buddington on fiddle, Tony Pisano, playing guitar and piano accordion, Josh Pisano, percussion and Dale Ott on bass. They play original, contemporary and traditional instrumental tunes, generally of Irish, French-Canadian and Appalachian origin. Their range of styles is diverse, from straight ahead danceable jigs and reels, with occasional touches of Latin, Cajun or swing inflection, to waltzes and airs.
You can hear their music on youtube. Try this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fahP6bPd2Xw or check out their website (http://flyinggarbanzos.com ) for links to other videos and MP3 files.
Hannah is a dancer and caller from eastern NYS and has been calling there and in western Massachusetts. Skilled with beginners as well as experienced dancers, she brings fun and an infectious joy to the evening.
With the band's lively music and Hannah enthusiasm, it's sure to be a evening of great music and lots of fun!
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THIS SITE IS BEING REPLACED BY A NEW AND BETTER WEBSITE
Our new booking person, Mary Edgington, has done a wonderful job booking the bands and calles for 2019.
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Monthly Friday night family contradance, sponsored by the Otsego Dance Society. Call 607-965-8232 or 607-547-8164 for more information.
WE HAVE A NEW WEBSITE!
'http://otsegodancesociety.weebly.com'
2018-2019 SCHEDULE
If you want to contact Mary about any future bookings, you can email her at ods.contra.bookings@gmail.com.
To see the schedule for 2019, click:
General Information about ODS dances
Dances are generally held on the first Friday of each month.
Dances begin at 7:30 PM and end about 10:30.
They are held at the First Presbyterian Church, on the corner of Pioneer and Church Streets in Cooperstown.
Singles and beginners are welcomed as no dance experience or partner is necessary. All dances are taught, with more instruction for beginners during the earlier dances.
Suggested donation is $8 for adults, $4 for teen-agers 18 and under and students and free for children 12 and under.
For information about specific dances or contradancing in general, call (607) 965-8232 or (607) 547-8164.
For questions about this site, call (607) 547-8164
What is Contradancing?
Contra Dancing is a form of American folk dance in which the dancers form a set of two parallel lines which run the length of the hall. Each dance consists of a sequence of moves that ends with couples having progressed one position up or down the set. As the sequence is repeated, a couple will eventually dance with every other couple in the set. (From a pamphlet called 'A Contra Dance Primer', promoting Hamilton Country Dancers' events, first published during their 1992-93 season.)
For more varied (and humorous) answers to this question, check out the website
http://www.sbcds.org/contradance/whatis/#Def1
and of course, wikipedia has some history and a good description of a typical contradance event.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_dancing
For more varied (and humorous) answers to this question, check out the website
http://www.sbcds.org/contradance/whatis/#Def1
and of course, wikipedia has some history and a good description of a typical contradance event.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_dancing
Contradance Video
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Other Contradance Websites
Thanks So Much!
Again this year, we have been fortunate to be awarded a grant for our 2018 contradances. Thanks so much to the Chenango Arts Council.
These dances are made possible with public funds from the Chenango Arts Council's Decentralization Program, a re-grant program of the NYS Council on the Arts, with support from Governor Andrew Cuomo and the NYS Legislature.
Money from this grant is used solely for the musicians and it enables us to present the wonderful performers you are used to hearing at our dances.
Money from this grant is used solely for the musicians and it enables us to present the wonderful performers you are used to hearing at our dances.
As always, we are very grateful for the grant money and the opportunity it gives us when selecting our bands.
In addition, we say 'thank you' to our dancers for their generous donations of money and refreshments and for their continued support in attending our dances!
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