Fifty years ago, Scott Russell and his girlfriend, Susan Davis, saw an ad in Creative Loafing for international folk dancing at Garden Hills Recreation Center. They decided to attend and joined about ...

Twice a month, community members come together to hear fiddles, the voice of a caller and join hands in a traditional folk dance dating back to the 1700s — contra dancing. In Urbana, this traditional ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the sun sets in the town of Nelson on Monday night, a crowd of people meander into Town Hall with instruments and water bottles ...

In 1918, the Spanish flu spread across the world, killing millions and isolating masses of people. Two years later, the Roaring Twenties began in the United States — money flowed, music blasted and ...

Before you even walk into Nelson Town Hall on any given Monday night, you feel what's happening inside. Stomp, stomp, clap. A fiddler picks out a tune in the background, but it's almost incidental.

The Rehoboth Contra Dance Society’s monthly Fourth Friday contra dance will take place from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Friday at Goff Hall, 124 Bay State Road, Rehoboth. A free lesson will take place before ...

Wednesday dances: First, third and fifth Wednesdays of the month. Dances begin with a newcomer session at 7:15 p.m. followed by a dance from 7:30- 9:30 at the Woman’s Club Hall, 1428 W. Ninth Ave.

PA Live co-host Chris Bohinski greets his fellow co-host Rachel Malak with a courtly bow as the two encounter each other during a short contra dance that was part of their April 25 show. Bohinski and ...

Fiddlers Barb Schmid and Todd Clewell and Henry Koretzky on guitar, playing as The Contra Rebels, provided music for a contra dance at St. Faustina’s Parish Center in Nanticoke in September, and will ...