7/24, English Ceilidh Dance in San Francisco -- note venue change!

Date: 22 Jul 2003 21:40:39 PDT
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Come to a special English Barn Dance in San Francisco -- we've got an excellent
caller and delightful musicians, imported at great expense for your listening
pleasure. Enjoy some of the liveliest music of the past couple of millennia!
-->(Note: event moved from Ashkenaz in Berkeley)<--
Music by Paul Sartin (of Belshazzar's Feast) and Noel Cragg
Calling by Alan Winston
Thursday, July 24th
8-10:30 pm
Goat Hall
400 Missouri St
San Francisco, CA 94107-2827
Corner of 19th and Missouri in San Francisco
$9 admission, $7 for BACDS members
For more information, call 650-365-2913 (before 4 pm Thursday) or see
http://www.bacds.org
Incredibly easy, bouncy, rollicking music and dance -- dance along or just
listen -- all dances taught and called, no partner needed, beginners welcome.
Dance to the light-hearted calling of Alan Winston:
Alan has been calling dances for nearly 20 years -- he regularly leads English
country and ceilidh dancing at venues throughout the Bay Area and beyond,
delighting dancers at grand balls and dance parties alike. Alan's dry wit and
welcoming style keep dancers smiling, and his encyclopedic dance repertoire
will ensure an evening full of robust, happy dances.
Listen to the music by Paul Sartin and Noel Cragg:
Half of the acclaimed English folk duo Belshazzar's Feast, fiddler and oboeist
Paul Sartin already had a long list of traditional English folk dance
credentials when he teamed up with accordionist Paul Hutchinson in 1995 as
Belshazzar's Feast. The duo's six recordings, rich with both tradition and
humor, have done much to spread English folk music as a participatory dance
form. Sartin teaches at King's College (Cambridge), produces recordings, and
is founder of the Roots Radio Show.
At Paul Sartin's side will be Noel Cragg on accordion -- Noel's flying fingers,
comprehensive knowledge of tunes, and whimsical good cheer make him a perfect
partner for Paul. A man of many musical talents, Noel studied music at Oberlin
Conservatory and participated in many early music and baroque ensembles, ending
up with degrees in musicology and computer science. Noel wasted his youth
playing the oboe and piano, but now he plays traditional music for dance events
around the Bay Area -- he and Paul just finished a week-long stint playing at
the nationally-known English Dance Week run by the Bay Area Country Dance
Society.
We hope to see you there!
For more more information about Belshazzar's Feast, visit
http://www.2pauls.com
For more information about Alan Winston, visit
http://www.nbcds.org/bios/awinston.html
For more information about BACDS, which is sponsoring this dance, visit
http://www.bacds.org