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Bruce Hamilton
has been doing English Dancing since 1967, and
calling since 1971. He co-founded the San Diego center of
CDSS, started the
Peninsula English dance,
was an early co-foreman of
Berkeley
Morris,
and started the
Deer Creek Morris Men. He's taught
all over the place. His current pet project is a workshop for
English country dance callers. He's also been Scottish Country Dancing and teaching for the same length of time ("I love them both!") and was one of the founding teachers of the San Diego branch of the RSCDS. Bruce and his wife Jo now share a weekly class, and have also trained Scottish dance teachers. By day, Bruce is a computer scientist at Agilent Technologies. "I don't have any hobbies besides dancing -- not enough nights in the week!" |
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Besides being the programmer for the BACDS Wednesday Night English Country Dance series, Charlie Hancock has done it all. His piano and accordion are familiar sounds at BACDS dances and camps for over 10 years. He plays for English, contra, and Scottish country dancing, and plays a bit of jazz for fun. His checkered past has included playing rock, classical, punk, and disco. Charlie appeared at numerous camps and festivals, including the New England Folk Festival playing piano and accordion, and can be found on recent CDs by Cathie Whitesides and Shira Kammen. His infusion of high energy, improvisation, and equal facility in accompanying English country, contras, and ritual dancing, make him a special addition to any event. He also suffers from being an incredible friendly and nice guy. |
| Kathrine Gardner has played fiddle and some piano for contra, square, and English dances and dance camps since the mid-80s. Some of her early mentors were Cathie Whitesides, Jeremy Kammerer, and Barry Shultz. She credits Cathie with teaching her how to fit tunes to dances, Jeremy with how to live the itinerant musician's life on a low budget and with honor, and Barry with helping her master the slippery and offbeat ways of Southeastern American fiddling. Lark in the Morning camp deserves mention for providing some of her first opportunities to play for dancing, and for the inspiration to try to make life a nonstop music party. Today she plays with The Guppies and the KJammers. Kathrine lives with husband Kit Nelson near the beach at Half Moon Bay. | |
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Hailed for her "virtuosity" (Washington Post),
"expressivity" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), "fearless playing" (SF
Classical Voice), and combination of "masterly control with risk-taking
spontaneity" (Early Music),
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.
Judy is the director of the Baroque ensemble, Musica Pacifica, and has recorded for Dorian, harmonia mundi usa, Koch International, Reference Recordings, Musical Heritage Society, and Hännsler Classics. A Fulbright scholar to Austria, she was awarded the Soloist Diploma with Highest Honors from the Vienna Academy of Music. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University, holds a doctorate in early music from Stanford University, and has been a visiting professor at the Vienna Conservatory and Indiana University's Early Music Institute in Bloomington. She has taught at Stanford, the San Francisco Conservatory, Pinewoods, and at early music workshops throughout the United States. Judy lives in Oakland with her adorable little dog, Jake, and she would be more than happy to show you pictures if you ask. |
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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. He also enjoys playing Brazilian Choros too. 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! |
| Ruth Anne Fraley, a long time pianist for English Country and Scandinavian, and a founding accordionist for the Deer Creek Morris Men, will be 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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Stan and Susan Kramer, sometimes called the dynamic duo of English Country Dance music, are products of that wonderful evolution - dancers turned musicians. Stan has been playing since 1965, uplifting a 2nd and 3rd generation of dancers, for morris, and english dance, but strangely won't admit to contras. He plays fiddle, recorder, string bass, and mentored with Pat Shaw, Phllippe Merrill and Marshall Baron. Susan is also firmly grounded in the folk traditions, both from Berea College and as a child dancer, and who Stan says "needs no introduction because her music speaks for itself." |
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