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| Phil Katz |
 Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 4:16 am |
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Please Join Us
for
Great Music and Dancing
at the
SEATTLE FIRST SATURDAY CONTRA DANCE
June 5 from 7:30 - 10:45 pm
(please note early start)
GREY OWL
with caller
DAVID KAYNOR
David Kaynor, from the famed Greenfield, Massachusetts dance
at the Guiding Star Grange, is one heckuva nice guy and
enormously respected as a full-time caller and musician.
He provides leadership, organizing, calling, and fiddling
for the vibrant and successful Friday dances in Greenfield.
There is a strong connection between Seattle musicians and
Greenfield; a substantial part of our tune repertoire comes
from there; many Seattlites stop by Greenfield to dance, sit
in onstage, attend music sessions, and experience the sense
of community. We see David here, several times a year; he
comes out for Folklife every year. He's on staff at Lady of
the Lake this year, and was on staff at Fiddle Tunes Festival
in 2002. (Greenfield protégé Lissa Schneckenberger will be
on Fiddle Tunes staff this summer.) David is graceful,
talented, and generous; one senses these in his dance calling,
which is not to be missed. We are so pleased to have him
back at the Friends' Center.
Grey Owl is Miche Baker-Harvey on fiddle, myself on melodeons,
(four of them for this gig), and Jay Finkelstein on guitar.
We got together to learn Métis (*) fiddle tunes and to bring
them to the contradance repertoire. Perhaps you heard our
Folklife set Monday night, comprised entirely of tunes of
Métis origin, or played in Métis country today. These are
hot tunes, and they come from a "live" tradition just as
do the Yankee contra tunes. Several excellent Métis fiddlers
are playing and recording today (including John Arcand, who
will be on staff at Fiddle Tunes next month); Andy DeJarlis,
possibly the best-known Métis fiddler of all, died not much
more than 30 yr ago. We think that bringing Métis tunes to
contradance playing in the Northwest may be as significant
as was bringing French Canadian playing into the New England
repertoire.
This Saturday, playing for an entire dance - longer than
a 50 min. Folklife set - we will be taking a majority of
our tunes from Métis sources, but also including a number
of tunes from the local contra repertoire. We'll do this
to provide greater variety of styles, and also because the
Métis jigs (largely being early 20th century square dance
jigs) are not as uniformly interesting as their reels.
We hope you'll dance with us, as we make our contribution
to the tune repertoire of Puget Sound contra dancing.
----- Gawrsh; a genuine scholarly footnote! -------
* The Métis are the ethnic group created by the early French
fur traders marrying into the various Native American and
Canadian First Peoples nations they encountered. The French
brought their fiddles, and their fiddling tradition was
enthusiastically received, adapted, and maintained. The Métis
living in (what is now) northwestern Minnesota and northern
North Dakota, on up into Manitoba and Saskatchewan, absorbed
a "double dose" of European traditional fiddling in the late
18th and 19th centuries; first the French from east of the
Red River, later the Scots from west of it.
ALL ARE WELCOME!
Hope you'll bring a friend you've been wanting to introduce
to contradancing. We hold a newcomers/beginner's workshop,
moved up to 7:00, to accomodate the dance starting at 7:30.
There is just nobody I'd rather have introducing folks to
contradancing and having them feel comfortable, than David.
The First Saturday Contra Dance is at
University Friends Center
4001 9th Avenue NE, Seattle, WA
$7.00 at the door.
I believe there is still an "over 65" "under 18" or
"unemployed" discount.
Info http://seattledance.org/contra/first.saturday.html or
Phil <philkatz@speakeasy.net> - 206 722-8228 |
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