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Sharon Green
has been dancing forever - or at least since 1988, and calling since 1993.
Dance leader may be the highest-profile role she plays at
but dancers know it is only one of many. Her enthusiasm and generosity spark "the heart and soul
of the community," as one dancer puts it.
Sharon has worked most closely with Christine Helwig and
Fried de Metz Herman. Through
CDSS she has taken dance leadership classes with Bruce Hamilton,
Gene Murrow, and Sue Salmons; she has also traveled to England to
attend the initial callers' module (led by Betty Chater, Wendy Crouch, Alan Davies, and Colin Hume) sponsored by
EFDSS.
Sharon's memberships in dance organizations read like vintage alphabet soup: in addition to the above, there's
NEFFA, NOMAD, BACDS, CDS Boston Centre, Capital ECD, and CDW, plus
Heritage and Germantown. She also has danced with the
Harpies Molly team and has served, with Paul Ross, as co-director of Christine Helwig's
Chelsea English Country Dancers, with whom she began dancing in 1990. |
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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
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Shira Kammen is
fiddling extraordinaire. A hit at English Week in 1999, 2000, 2003, the
Playford Ball in 2000, and Fall Weekend in 2002, she's been a highlight of
many California Revels shows. She has a degree in music from UC Berkeley and is a member of Ensembles Alcatraz, Project Ars
Nova, and Medieval Strings. She has performed and taught around the US and
the world, and is at home in many musical genres, including English and
Breton. |
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Jim Oakden
has gone through a succession of musical stages, from early music to
traditional. Jim has been a staff musician at many West Coast camps
including Fall Weekend, both by himself and as part of
The Guppies, and is
currently active as a musician for English country dances, contras, Irish
and Cape Breton sessions and dances from Brittany. Jim is a board member
of the
Traditional Dancers of Santa Cruz, led the band for the 2000
Playford Ball, and programmed the 2001 and 2002 BACDS Fall Weekends. |
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Susan Worland is a great fiddler who spent many years in the Boston
area, where she fiddled up a storm at many Scottish dance events. She
moved to Berkeley in 2000 after marrying Michael Bentley. She specializes in music of Scotland and Central Europe,
particularly Poland and is presently music director for San Francisco's
Lowiczanie Polish Dance Ensemble. This past winter she was featured in
"Christmas Revels, Roads of the Roma" in Washington, DC.
We get to enjoy her at our afternoon workshop. |
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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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