Contra Dance with Live Band
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Dance/Dancing
Carrillo Recreation Center
**Events may have been canceled or postponed. Please contact the venue to confirm the event.
Date & Time
Sun, Apr 05 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Address (map)
Carrillo Rec Center Ballroom Santa Barbara 100 E Carrillo St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Venue (website)
Carrillo Recreation Center
CONTRA DANCE this Sunday 6–9pm to a LIVE BAND!
SB Carrillo Recreation Center, 100 E Carrillo St. in the large sprung-floor ballroom
The Band: SHINBONE
The Caller: CHRIS PAGE
$15 Cash/Visa/MC/Venmo, Youth/Student $5-10
Beginners are welcome, cherished even. No need to bring a partner.
We suggest newcomers dance with experienced dancers for the first few dances. It helps make if fun and easy for everyone!
Dress for comfort. We recommend low or flat shoes that don’t stick
SHINBONE band
Shinbone, a newly formed contra dance band, is excited to make their debut at the April 5 contra dance in Santa Barbara. Shinbone will be playing all Irish, all the time! Lively traditional jigs and reels will be played by Katie McCaffrey on fiddle, Mike Mullins on mandolin, Tom Wolverton on tenor banjo, 5 string banjo, pennywhistle, and uilleann pipes, with Amber Mueller on piano.
Our caller is CHRIS PAGE, a special guest, who writes GREAT DANCES, which are enjoyed nationwide. Get ready for some fun Contra dances Sunday night
Video of one of our dances
For more info see https://www.sbcds.org/contradance
Future English Country Dances
| Apr 5 | Easter Sunday – we will not be dancing. Enjoy a Spring day with friends and family. | |
| Apr 19 | Alice Williams | tbd |
| May 3 | Susan Evans | |
| May 17 | Alice Williams | |
| May 31 | Extraordinary music with Rodney Miller and Jeffrey Spero | |
| Jacqui Grennan | Double Trouble |
First Presbyterian Church
21 E. Constance Ave. Santa Barbara, CA 93105
First, Third, and Fifth Sundays (with some exceptions).
New dancer instruction at 1:45, dancing 2:00 to 4:15 pm. Doors open at 1:40.
For more info see https://www.sbcds.org/ecd
A big smile for your body, mind, and soul
