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38th Alaska Folk Festival Dance Schedule

The tentative schedule will be created and available here about the second week of March.

Please check back then.

Dances


Thursday Night, April 12 • JACC

7:00 to 7:50 Dale Wygant's Oompa Band • Juneau, Alaska
Dale Wygant, Steve Tada, Beth Lebowitz, Paul Shannon, Russell Strandtmann, Tim Ayer, Brian Van Kirk, Ken Guyer
We play polkas, schottishes, waltzes and old time swing
9:00 to 9:50 Famille flocon de neige • caller: Jim Grammel * Juneau, Alaska
Greg McLaughlin, Leif Saya, Lis Saya
French-Canadian and Celtic tunes to lift your spirit
10:10 to 11:00 Bevels 'n' Church • caller: Odette Edgar * Juneau, Alaska
Wendy Parker, Nene Wolfe, Kathy Fanning, John Church, Sally Donaldson
Back atcha with nondenominational contra tunes for your dancing pleasure.
11:20 to 12:10 Eel House • caller: Tony Mates * Fairbanks, Alaska
Susie Hallinan, Eric Barker, Ryan Bowers, Alisa Williams
High-energy progressive contra dance music infused with jazz, rock, folk, funk, and classical. Always exciting and fun, it will make you want to move your body.

Dance Master: Erin Gleason


Friday Night, April 13 • JACC

7:00 to 7:50 JDHS Funk Machine • Juneau, Alaska
JDHS Jazz Band students
Juneau-Douglas High School Jazz Band delivers a set of high level Funk arrangements for Big Band. Come check it out, you will not be able to stand still.
8:10 to 9:00 Fais Do Do Juneau • Juneau, Alaska
Erin Hanson, Maridon Boario, Andrew Heist, Jason Norris, Clay Good, Sergei Morosan
A foot stompin, honky tonkin, Cajun two steppin good time
9:20 to 10:10 Bobb Family Band • Juneau, Alaska
Jane Roodenburg, Riley Woodford, Albert McDonnel, Bob Banghart, Jay Caputo, Clay Good
Buddy Tabor's favorite local country western band.
10:30 to 11:20 Kari Groven and the Wristrockets • Douglas, Alaska
Kari Groven, Jason Caputo, Mike Bucy, Chris Frary, Dale McFarlin
Our set would be an eclectic but accessible dance mix of rockabilly, blues, latin swing, country-cow-punk, Irish and Norwegian Folk-rock and soul.
11:40 to 12:30 Fire on McGinnis • Juneau, Alaska
Mike Barnhill, Martha Defreest, Mark Lukey, Mat Ghelardi, Yoshi Tanha
Fire on McGinnis mixes the appeal of rock with the woodiness of Irish and Celtic music.

Dance Master: Tania Lewis


Saturday Night, April 14 • JACC

7:00 to 7:50 Whiskey Boat • callers: Halli Kenoyer, Hilary Koch, Barbara Morgan * Ketchikan, Alaska
Brian Curtis, Dale Miller, Terry O'Hara, Sally Burch, tba
Old time southern fiddle tunes
8:10 to 9:00 High Lonesome Sound • caller: Tony Mates * Anchorage, Alaska
Dusty Rider, Amanda Kerr, Garren Volper, Carter Bancroft, Eric Rodgers
This Anchorage bluegrass and old timey band will keep the fiddle tunes coming all night long
9:20 to 10:10 Elbow Grease • caller: Tony Mates * Juneau, Alaska
Tom Paul, Andy Ferguson, Jack Fontanella, Erik Chadwell, Sergei Morosan
You need the right lubrication to get those old time dance tunes cranking.
10:30 to 11:20 Swing Dogs • caller: Tom Paul * Fairbanks, Alaska
Charlie Hunt, Nancy Bayer, Carol Indorf, Ellie Sharman
Transcontinental tunes for the hardest working members of the dog team
11:40 to 12:30 Susu and the Prophets • Juneau, Alaska
Shona Strauser, Mike Maas, Simon Taylor, Dale McFarlin, Riley Woodford
Straight up rock and roll dance music from classic rock to the best new music

Dance Master: Rhonda Moseby