An Event For The Entire Family!
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| Music for the Contra Dance Ball
Vivian Williams and Bonnie Zahnow play fiddle. Phil Williams and W.B. Reid play guitar and mandolin. W.B. is quite a multi-instrumentalist. Besides guitar and mandolin, he also plays banjo-guitar (a six-string banjo) and fiddle. He often changes instruments depending on the tune set that is being played.
Vivian Williams has been U.S. Senior National Fiddle Champion (once) and Washington State Senior Fiddle Champion seven times. She and Phil collect manuscripts of 19th century fiddle tunes. They have had grants from the state Humanities Commission to go around the state and present music from the Oregon Trail or other pioneer themes. They have also done Thomas Hardy festivals. Hardy was the famous English novelist (died 1928 if I remember) who, in his early days, played fiddle in a Victorian equivalent of what we call a contra dance band. That was in the 1860s and 1870s.
Phil Williams is a founding father of the Folklife Festival, which is held each year in Seattle on Memorial Day weekend.
Dance like you're a Fezziwig
at the "The Dickens Contra Dance Ball”
The
ball will be held at the Titus Will Showroom from 6:30-9:30 PM. Don't
know how to contra dance? There will be people available to teach you.
Hors d’ouevres will be served and a dessert auction will provide funds
for STAND UP FOR KIDS, a project serving the homeless. Tickets are $15
for the general public and it is strongly suggested you purchase them in
advance because it looks like it is going to be a full house. Call
(253) 272-6622 or visit Kings Books for tickets.
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| Vivian & Phil Williams |
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