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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 ...

Through Bemidji Contra Dance, Wendy Greenberg brings traditional Contra Dance musicians from around the region to Bemidji's Headwaters School of Music and the Arts for monthly workshops with local ...

Though unknown to many people, contra dancing is practiced with great devotion and abandon throughout the United States by fans of this lively dance form. What’s striking is that a remarkably high ...

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 ...

Though the prefix "contra-" may mean against or opposite to, the members of Louisiana Contras & Squares have found plenty of common ground and formed a community with each other. At least one Saturday ...

REHOBOTH — For more than three decades, dancers in Rehoboth have met at Goff Hall to make magic, hooping, hollering and following instructions as a fiddle fuels the movement. The Rehoboth Contra Dance ...

Contra dancers form a circle during a Wyoming Valley Contra Dance at St. Faustina’s Parish Center, 520 Hanover St., Nanticoke. The Parish Center will be the setting for a dance from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday ...

It’s Tuesday night and a group of adults from many backgrounds head to the Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center for a weekly Contra Dance — a form of folk dancing said to have originated in the 17th century.

With caller Bob Nicholson offering instruction, contra dancers form a circle in the hall at St. Faustina Parish Center in Nanticoke. You can expect a similar scene this Sunday, April 6, at St.

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 hand. It’s not long before cheering, stomping and the twang of ...