Iowa Dance Calendar 2009-2010

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2009

Thursday	Friday	Saturday
2	3	4 Flying Pig Barn Dance, Des Moines. Dot Kent with the Talking Fiddleheads and Chirps Smith. Special location:Teachout building, Third Floor, 500 East Locust Street East Village area of downtown Des Moines, Iowa.
9	10	11
16 Newton community barn dance. Live caller, live band.	17	18 Fairfield Contra Dance. Jennifer Hamilton with Tim Britton.
23	24	25 Ralston Creek Country Dancers, Iowa City. Jennifer Hamilton with the Goosetown String Band.

Thursday	Friday	Saturday
		1 Flying Pig Barn Dance, Des Moines. Shawn Glidden with the Talking Fiddleheads.
6	7	8
13	14	15 Fairfield Contra Dance. Jack Engstrom with the Cafe Ceili Band.
20 Newton community barn dance. Jim Christensen & Company with the Side Porch Pickers.	21	22 Central Iowa Barn Dance, Ames. Roger Alexander with the Barn Owl Band. Ralston Creek Country Dancers, Iowa City. Gail Hintze with The Gilded Bats.
27	28	29

Thursday	Friday	Saturday
3	4	5 Flying Pig Barn Dance, Des Moines. Jim Thaxter with the Talking Fiddleheads.
10	11 Hey For 40 Barn Dance, West Branch. Tim Jenkins with the Goosetown String Band.	12 Onion Creek Cloggers, Nevada. Community Barn Dance with Onion Creek Band. Fairfield Contra Dance. Gail Hintze from Chillicothe, Illinois, with the Café Ceili band.
17 Newton community barn dance. Tom Hinds from Charlottesville, Virginia, with the Side Porch Pickers.	18	19 Decorah contra dance. Bill Deutsch with the Western Home String Band.
24	25	26 Central Iowa Barn Dance, Ames. Lonna Nachtigal with the Barn Owl Band. Ralston Creek Country Dancers, Iowa City. Nikki Herbst with Just 4 Fun.

Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
1	2	3 Flying Pig Barn Dance, Des Moines. Corey Mohan with the Talking Fiddleheads, joined by Lee Guthrie and Dave Furniss.	4 Harvest Moon Afternoon Dance Marion, 2-4 pm. Nikki Herbst with the Ridgerunners.
8	9 Hey For 40 Barn Dance, West Branch. Roger Alexander with Acoustic Mayhem.	10
15 Newton community barn dance. Lonna Nachtigal with the Side Porch Pickers.	16	17
22	23	24 Central Iowa Barn Dance, Ames. Lonna Nachtigal with the Barn Owl Band.
29	30	31

Thursday	Friday	Saturday
5	6	7
12	13 Hey For 40 Barn Dance, West Branch. Lonna Nachtigal with The Good Old Way.	14 Fairfield Contra Dance. Gail Hintze, from Chillicothe, Illinois, with the Goosetown String Band.
19 Newton community barn dance. Jim Christensen & Company with the Side Porch Pickers.	20	21 Decorah contra dance. Bill Deutsch with the Western Home String Band.
26	27	28 Central Iowa Barn Dance, Ames. Lonna Nachtigal with The Porch Stompers. Ralston Creek Country Dancers, Iowa City. Drew Nagle (Rock Island, Illinois) with The Ridgerunners.

Thursday	Friday	Saturday
3	4	5 Fairfield Contra Dance. Nikki Herbst, from Iowa City with Tim Britton.
10	11 Hey For 40 Barn Dance, West Branch. Caller Nikki Herbst with The Gilded Bats.	12
17 Newton community barn dance. Von Kaster with the Side Porch Pickers.	18	19
24	25	26
31

Thursday	Friday	Saturday
	1	2
7	8 Hey For 40 Barn Dance, West Branch. Caller Tim Jenkins with music by Just 4 Fun.	9
14	15	16
21 Newton community barn dance. Jim Christensen & Company with the Side Porch Pickers.	22	23 Central Iowa Barn Dance, Ames. Roger Alexander with the Barn Owl Band. Fairfield Contra Dance. Jennifer Hamilton with the Band: Brenda Knox, flute; Lauryn Shapter,fiddle; Torrey Witherspoon, mandolin; David Carlisle, fiddle. Ralston Creek Country Dancers, Iowa City. Nikki Herbst with The Gilded Bats. Decorah contra dance. Beau Farmer with the Western Home String Band.
28	29	30

Thursday	Friday	Saturday
4	5	6 Iowa City English Country Dance.
11	12	13 Iowa City International Folk Dace.
18 Newton community barn dance. Von Kaster with the Side Porch Pickers.	19	20
25	26	27 Central Iowa Barn Dance, Ames. Caller Lonna Nachtigal with the Barn Owl Band.

Thursday	Friday	Saturday
4	5	6
11	12	13 Iowa City International Folk Dace. /tr>
18	19	20 Iowa City English Country Dance.
25	26	27 Central Iowa Barn Dance, Ames. Roger Alexander with the Barn Owl Band.

Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
1	2	3	4
8	9	10	11
15 Newton community barn dance Live caller, live music.	16	17	18 Decorah family dance and contra dance 3:30 pm Sue Hulsether with the Western Home String Band.
22	23	24 Central Iowa Barn Dance, Ames. Caller Lonna Nachtigal with the Barn Owl Band. Fairfield Contra Dance. Jennifer Hamilton calling with music TBA.	25
29	30

Thursday	Friday	Saturday
		1 19th Annual Scottish Ball, Ames. Music by Calum Pasqua and Susie Petrov. Follow the link for a complete Friday to Sunday schedule including a concert, a music workshop and English dance in the park. Decorah family dance and contra dance Highlandville School Sue Hulsether with the Western Home String Band.
6	7	8
13	14 Friday to Sunday Fairfield Frolic Contra Weekend Caller Will Mentor with Peter Barnes and Dave Langford.	15
20 Newton community barn dance Caller Linda Lieberman, music by Without a Doubt.	21 Burington Heritage contradance Hibernia Hall, 1204 Washington Lessons 6:30, dancing 7:00 Dan Moffitt with The Lemmings	22 Central Iowa Barn Dance, Ames. Roger Alexander with the Barn Owl Band. Ralston Creek Country Dancers, Iowa City. Jennifer Hamilton with the Drollinger Family Band.
27	28	29

Thursday	Friday	Saturday
3	4	5
10	11	12
17 Newton community barn dance Von Kaster with Without a Doubt.	18	19
24	25	26 Central Iowa Barn Dance, Ames. Roger Alexander with The Porch Stompers. Ralston Creek Country Dancers, Iowa City. Drew Nagle with the Goosetown String Band.
July 15 Newton community barn dance Caller TBA with music by TBA.	July 18	July 19

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Last updated Thu Jul 8 2010

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