For the record, contra dancing is not against anything, despite the suggestion in the name, said professional dance caller and instructor Donna Hunt. Hunt of Elkins Park, Montgomery County, will be ...

With caller Bob Nicholson offering instruction, contra dancers form a circle in the hall at St. Faustina Parish Center in Nanticoke last fall. The next contra dance at St. Faustina’s is set for March ...

There will be a community contra dance from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, at Unitarian Universalist Church in Rutland. The dance will feature caller Licia Gambino Hamilton, fiddler Mark Hamilton ...

SEQUIM — Contra dancing and Scottish music are set at the Upper Room, a historic dance hall, built in 1893, on Friday. The dance will be upstairs at 138 W. Washington St., in Sequim. A beginners’ ...

Twice a month, community members come together to hear fiddles, the voice of a caller and join hands in a traditional folk dance dating back to the 1700s — contra dancing. In Urbana, this traditional ...

Fiddlers Barb Schmid and Todd Clewell and Henry Koretzky on guitar, playing as The Contra Rebels, provided music for a contra dance at St. Faustina’s Parish Center in Nanticoke in September, and will ...

Wednesday dances: First, third and fifth Wednesdays of the month. Dances begin with a newcomer session at 7:15 p.m. followed by a dance from 7:30- 9:30 at the Woman’s Club Hall, 1428 W. Ninth Ave.