Author: Emolyn Liden, Writer, Student & Instructor

Dance Musicians’ Week at the John C. Campbell Folk School

Dance Musicians’ Week at the John C. Campbell Folk School

By | May 31, 2012 |

Dance Musicians’ Week is for the musician who is comfortable playing a few tunes on his or her instrument and wants to play for traditional contra, square, and couple dancing. It is a week of breaking out of shells, letting the “inner-musician” flourish, improving techniques of playing and arranging music, and being part of a band. It comes around once a year, in July, and I can say from experience that the larger the class, the more the fun.
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Play all day, dance all night!

Play all day, dance all night!

By | Jul 16, 2010 |

At Dance Musicians week it so happens that there are numerous people wandering around with instruments looking to play music.  During the week-long musical “take-over” you can hear music all around campus.  The musicians are put into bands and before long they infiltrate the nightly dances and bump the instructors off stage.  David Kaynor, Susan Songer, Naomi Morse, and Peter Siegel don’t seem to mind, actually I hear that they encourage it.
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