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Melissa Running discovered she could take folk dance for PE credit in college in the early ’90s, and hasn’t looked back since. A few years later she started playing for dances and then calling English in the Philadelphia area. She now lives in Silver Spring, MD, calls nationally, plays piano for English and Scottish country dancing, and plays the nyckelharpa for pleasure and for Swedish dancing (and a little Norwegian, and sometimes English). In the last several years she's taken to writing tunes and often composing dances to go with them. |
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Shira Kammen has delighted in playing for English Dance events for many years, including at least 5 BACDS English Weeks, English/American dance camps at Buffalo Gap and Pinewoods, several fall dance weekends at Monte Toyon, as well as a plethora of Playford and Fall Balls. She's been a mainstay of many California Revels shows, performed with the Oregon, SF, and California Shakespeare companies, and has worked with many prominent early music ensembles, performing and teaching around the US and farther afield. Shira has a degree in music from UC Berkeley and is at home in many musical genres, including English, Breton, Medieval & Renaissance. She has played on several television and movie soundtracks including 'The Nativity Story'. |
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Versatile dance pianist Rebecca King has been playing dance music in California since 1982. She can be heard playing English and Contra Dance in the greater San Francisco Bay area and the North Bay, mainly with the bands Flashpoint and Luceo, and most recently Persons of Quality. Her strong classical training and her love of jazz shows in her rhythmic and lyric piano accompaniments. By day, she teaches music in the Sonoma Valley schools. She can also be heard on Cowboy Dancing by Ray Bierl, on BACDS' music CD Swinging On The Gate (in which she was also executive producer), as well as Farnicle Huggy and Next of Kynaston. |
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Hailed for her virtuosity, expressivity, fearless playing, and combination of "masterly control with risk-taking spontaneity" , Judy Linsenberg has performed extensively throughout the United States and Europe, including solo appearances at the Hollywood Bowl and Lincoln Center; and has been featured with such leading American ensembles as the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Opera Center, the Los Angeles Opera, the LA Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, the Portland, Seattle, and Los Angeles Baroque Orchestras, the Bach Festival of Philadelphia, the Oregon and Carmel Bach Festivals, Musica Sacra of New York, Musica Angelica of Los Angeles, and others. She is the winner of national performance awards, and has premiered several pieces for the recorder, including a new work commissioned by her and, in March 2002 in Los Angeles, the US premiere of Vivaldi's recorder concerto, RV 312R. |
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Ruth Anne Fraley, a long time pianist for English Country and Scandinavian, and a founding accordionist for the Deer Creek Morris Men, will be also providing music for our afternoon workshop. She's been on staff for other events, including the Playford Ball, Fall Weekend, Mendocino, and Pinewoods. Oh, and she's also the manager for the Stanford Soccer Club girls' team the Tsunami. |
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David Strong has been playing fiddle (both folk and classical) for
the last 50 years. He says that playing for English is the most elegant
appreciated fun. He plays Violin and Viola for Scottish County Dancers and
couple dancers. Having
played English since...."gosh I can't remember... is that a problem?", he
notes that "the 3/2 Dances are the hook," David also plays with
Bangers
and Mash, an English Country Dance Band and has played for most of the
major English Country Dance events in the Bay Area.
David is a self-employed economic consultant ("I do governments, non-profits, and businesses… not people," he says). David lives in Oakland with his wife Mao. They enjoy traveling overseas and looking for that just right Violin! |
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