Free: Family Dance with Berkeley Old-Time Music Convention

FREE: Family Dance, in the style of old-time square dancing. Little kids are welcome! Folks of all ages are welcome! Caller Janine Smith leads the group through fun, easy dances! Live music by the Manning Mud Stompers! This event is part of the Berkeley Old-Time Music Convention, which runs from September 16th through 20th.

The Manning Mud Stompers are a big group of exceptional young musicians: Daisy Caire, Natalie Caton, Nikolai Davis, Helen Feeney, Jesse Fichman, Iola Gravois, Clio Levy-Tongate, Jasper Manning, Jayna Manning, Bodie Oakley, and Noah Steele are all students (or former students) at Berkeley’s Manning Music.

The Janine Smith experience is what you get when you cross a howdy-ma’am-BBQ-and-beans Honky Tonk with Zoom dancing and sprinkle on some twinkly lights for sass. She loves calling FUN dances, squares, circles, longways sets, heck maybe a couple of Singing Squares, too. Her teaching is clear and to-the-point, though she has been known to goof around a bit. She’s one of the “Hot Square Babes,” a quintet of female callers who threw a monthly Square Dance Party in the DC area from 2004-2018, a founding member of the DC Square Dance Collective (2011), and an organizer of the DC/Baltimore area annual Dare to Be Square Weekend.

https://www.ashkenaz.com/full-calendar#/events/188644
https://www.berkeleyoldtimemusic.org/

This event is hosted by Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center, and has no official connection with Berkeley Dancing Meetup. We just think it's an awesome event!