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Round Top String Band
Robin Fischer
Saturday, April 19, 2025: SQUARE at Hillside Club in Berkeley. Robin Fischer with Round Top String Band: Nick Lofaro, Rowan McCallister, Dan Kluger, Allegra Thompson
In April 2025, our dance is on a SATURDAY at the Hillside Club. No experience necessary. Kids welcome. Doors open at 7:45. Please pay in cash or venmo. This is a traditional or old-time square dance (not a modern or club square dance). That said, square dancers of all stripes are welcome! More Info
David Newitt
Patti Cobb
Tuesday, April 22, 2025: ENGLISH at Christ Church East Bay in Berkeley. David Newitt with Alicia Cover, Maggie Moore, Patti Cobb
English dancing for all - newcomer lesson at 7:25; dance 7:45-10:00 More Info
David Newitt
Charlie Hancock
Rebecca King
Valerie Rose
Saturday, April 26, 2025: ENGLISH at Christ Church East Bay in Berkeley. David Newitt with Charlie Hancock, Rebecca King, Caroline Armitage, Valerie Rose More Info
Bruce Hamilton
Bill Jensen
Robin Lockner
Renata Bratt
Tuesday, April 29, 2025: ENGLISH at All Saints Episcopal Church in Palo Alto. Bruce Hamilton with Renata Bratt, Robin Lockner, Bill Jensen More Info
Erik Hoffman
Tuesday, April 29, 2025: Berkeley Contra with Community Band! (SPECIAL) at Christ Church East Bay in Berkeley. Erik Hoffman with Community Band (contact Erik Hoffman for details): Erik Hoffman More Info
Berkeley Morris
Thursday, May 1, 2025: May Day in Berkeley (MORRIS)
Come dance the sun up with Berkeley Morris at Inspiration Point! More Info
Seabright Morris
Thursday, May 1, 2025: May Day in Santa Cruz (MORRIS)
Seabright Morris is dancing up the sun on May Day at the Lighthouse Point lighthouse in Santa Cruz, starting about 6am (420 West Cliff Drive) . We will also be doing a school visit at 9:30 to the Lakeside School, Los Gatos (19621 Black Road).
Goat Hill Morris
Thursday, May 1, 2025: May Day in San Francisco (MORRIS)
Celebrate May Day! On Thursday May 1, Goat Hill Morris will be dancing (and playing and singing) the sun up at Christmas Tree Point (the viewpoint area) on Twin Peaks in San Francisco. 6:00 a.m. - 6:40 a.m. Hope to see you there! Bring a warm jacket and a mug of hot beverage! For questions or more info, contact us at More Info
Mrs. Prunely's Pride
Deer Creek Morris
Thursday, May 1, 2025: May Day in Palo Alto (MORRIS/BORDER/MOLLY)
Deer Creek Morris and Mad Molly invite you to join us to dance the sun up (40 th annual event in Palo Alto) 5:30 am to 7:00 am - Meet at the Palo Alto Baylands (take Embarcadero East from the US-101 to the end of the road, turn left, go past the airport, bear right, past the Duck Pond and the Ranger Station and park in the first lot on the left (before crossing the river). Watch in silence to the strains of the haunting Abbots Bromley Horn Dance. Deer Creek will perform Cotswold Morris Dances. Mad Molly will perform Molly and Border dances. Traditional May singing. We will teach a Morris dance and English Country dance for all who will. More Info
Lise Dyckman
Caroline McCaskey
Christopher Jacoby
Friday, May 2, 2025: ENGLISH at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Palo Alto. Lise Dyckman with Caroline McCaskey, Christopher Jacoby
English dancing for all - dance 7:30-10:00 More Info
Berkeley Morris
Sunday, May 4, 2025: Tilden Little Farm (MORRIS)
Doing the maypole for the little kids by the Little Farm in Tilden Park, then dancing various other locations in Tilden park. More Info

Special Events

Erik Hoffman
Tuesday, April 29, 2025: Berkeley Contra with Community Band! (SPECIAL) at Christ Church East Bay in Berkeley. Erik Hoffman with Community Band (contact Erik Hoffman for details): Erik Hoffman More Info
Alan Winston
Rebecca King
Michelle Masek
Thursday, May 8, 2025: BFUU-Improper English (ENGLISH/SPECIAL) at Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists in Berkeley. Alan Winston with Alicia Cover, Michelle Masek, Rebecca King
Improper English is a new English country dance series committed to gender-neutral (positional) calling. The initial run will be 2nd Thursdays, just down the street from BACDS’ usual Berkeley hall, during March–May while the dance there shifts to Tuesdays. Suggested donation is $25, or pay what you can. Note that masking (surgical, KN-95 or better) is required. Beginner orientation at 6:50pm, dance at 7:00.
Presented by the SF Bay Queer Contra Dance.
HEY DAYS 2025
Sunday, June 15 - Sunday, 22 June, 2025: HEY DAYS 2025 (CAMP/ENGLISH) at Green Mountain Retreat in Los Gatos.
Hey Days (BACDS English Dance and Music Week) June 15-22 – a residential camp in the Santa Cruz mountains with English Country Dance, longsword, border morris, singing, a music track, storytelling, and more. Staff includes Joanna Reiner-Wilkinson, Andrew Swaine, Rachel Pusey, Daisy Black, Jan Elliot, Shira Kammen, Jim Oakden, Lisa Scott, Chip Prince, Michelle Masek, Rebecca King, McKinley James, Sound engineers Christopher Jacoby and Alicia Cover. Advance registration required; registration opens January 2; postmark lottery deadline February 1. To get periodic announcements about Hey Days click here
Anne Goess
Craig Johnson
Jeff Spero
Sunday, June 22 - Saturday, 28 June, 2025: BACDS Family Week (SPECIAL/CAMP) at Monte Toyon Camp in Aptos.
It's Family Week’s 32nd year. The camp is a special place for families of all sizes, ages, and configurations. Bring your kids, your grandkids, your mom, or just yourself! Activities include circus arts, crafts, maypole dance and parade, Teddy Bears’ picnic, theater (maybe even a mummer's play…), instrumental and singing sessions, and of course, lots of dancing! Registration is now open at our newly revised website (https://bacds.org/familyweek/), which has all the information about this year’s amazing staff, pricing, COVID policy, work-trade discounts, and of course, what sort of wonderful activities to expect. We can also be contacted at familyweek@bacds.org if you want to chat with someone about the details of our camp experiences.

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