No Dance Tonight – Christmas Day – IAHC Closed Tonight
This month’s Queer Contra Dance takes place on Saturday, December 30, 2017. It’s the night before New Years Eve! In the heart of Boystown on the last Saturday of each month friends come together to dance to live music. Bring your friends and out-of-town guests to experience this uniquely queer, inclusive dance at the Second Unitarian Church, 656 W Barry Ave.
Calling by Andrea Craft
Live Music by Tuesday Night Special featuring Kolleen Blume, Lynn Garren, Sam Herman and Tony Scarimbolo
Doors open at 6:00, Lesson begins at 6:30, Dance goes from 7:00 to 9:30
Admission by suggested donation of $10, paid at the door
No one turned away for lack of funds.
**Accessibility Info: The dance hall is on the second floor, up ~1.5 flights of stairs. Unfortunately, there is no elevator to this part of the facility. We are willing and able to assist in whatever way is needed to help folks get to the dance hall! The hall has plenty of chairs for resting or sitting and listening to the music, and there is one spacious non-gendered single-occupancy restroom
No Dance Tonight – New Year’s Day – IAHC Closed Tonight
An evening of special guests: Sassafras Stomp – “sweet, high-energy folk music from the Maine / Montana border” is playing and Dugan Murphy from Portland, Maine calling.
Brendan, Fred & Jay are playing; Big Bill Sudkamp is calling.
Tim McDonald and Jeremy Ward play Scottish and other tunes tonight; Meg Dedolph calls.
This month’s Queer Contra Dance takes place on Saturday, January 27, 2018. In the heart of Boystown on the last Saturday of each month friends come together to dance to live music. Bring your friends and out-of-town guests to experience this uniquely queer, inclusive dance at the Second Unitarian Church, 656 W Barry Ave.
Calling by Georges Agustin
Live Music by Patrik Ahlberg, Chris Kimmons and Mando Mike
Doors open at 6:00, Lesson begins at 6:30, Dance goes from 7:00 to 9:30
Admission by suggested donation of $10, paid at the door
No one turned away for lack of funds.
The dance hall is on the second floor, up ~1.5 flights of stairs. There is no elevator to this part of the facility. The dance hall has plenty of seats and has gender-inclusive restroom. Please reach out if we can help with accessibility needs.
The Cosmic Otters play tonight; Jo Mortland calls.
The Hillbilly Diaspora – Charlie Walden, Patt Plunkett, Kathy Hirsh and Jennifer Jeffries – play for us tonight. Paul Watkins calls.
Suite for the Feet – Jennifer Jeffries, Roger Diggle and perhaps Steve Rosen – play old-time and Quebecois tunes. Georges Augusin calls tonight.