Gender-Free Contra Dance

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Dust off your dancing shoes! LIVE music! Community dance for all ages and experience. Fun and easy folk dancing taught as you go. Bring a friend or come solo. Newcomer workshop at 3:45. Liz Nelson, caller, with Rebecca Weiss and Friends on fiddles. Let’s celebrate the season and community with an autumnal equinox dance! All ages and experience. Fun and easy folk dancing taught as you go. Bring a friend or come solo. Newcomer workshop at 3:45P. Liz Nelson is a dedicated contra dancer and caller based in Greenfield, Massachusetts, who regularly travels throughout New England and beyond to participate in dance events. She has a deep appreciation for folk music and is passionate about preserving its rich history and storytelling nature as a living tradition. Liz is actively involved in supporting and strengthening local and regional dance communities and is committed to fostering accessible, inclusive, and intergenerational communities, creating welcoming environments for individuals of all backgrounds, ages, and experience levels. Rebecca Weiss is a leader of a young generation of fiddlers, driven to share and explore rich traditions and new possibilities. With her award-winning compositions, tight harmonies, and sought-after dance fiddling, she brings creativity and versatility. We are SO excited to have Liz and Rebecca for our next dance! Admission $15, students $5, under 12 free. Free-will donation; no one turned away. Sponsored by the Music Committee. Unitarian Universalist Society East Meetinghouse, 153 Vernon St West, Manchester, CT. For more info, see here, email [contra@uuse.org](mailto:contra@uuse.org), or talk to Jane Osborn and Meghan MacRae.