On a chilly Saturday evening, around 50 people put on their most comfortable shoes and made their way to Goshen First Church.

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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 ...

Take hands with your neighbor, bounce and swing; women, chain across and back to your neighbor, circle to the left two places. For a contra-dance beginner, such instructions can be as daunting as ...

North Berkshire Community Dance will host its monthly contra dance this Saturday, Jan. 10, at the First Congregational Church ...

PORT ANGELES — Contra dances don’t typically happen on weeknights here. But with one of the country’s best-known dance callers in the area this coming week, the Black Diamond Community Hall hosts ...

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 ...

That’s the simple conclusion of most participants in local contra folk dancing gatherings. “It’s funny. You go there and the first dance makes you smile. The next thing you know you have smiled all ...