Contra Dance Band Referral List |
Arvid Lundin and Twisted Roots
Arvid Lundin & Twisted Roots play Scandinavian music, including hambos, schottisches, waltzes, and polkas.
Contact Arvid Lundin at (509) 994-4894 or [email protected].
Crooked Kilt
Crooked Kilt consists of three multi-instrumentalist and vocalist band members who have produced four CDs. Some instruments featured include the fiddle, accordion, guitar, bouzouki, piano, Highland pipes, bodhran, djembe, assorted hand percussion instruments, and three-part vocals. The band has been around for 30 years and has played festivals, weddings, wakes, parties, and contra dances.
Contact Carla Carnegie at (509) 592-7875 or [email protected].
Website: www.crookedkilt.net.
Dog Paw
Dog Paw is a bi-musical family contradance band that plays both Northern and Southern styles. Members include Sally Jablonsky, fiddler extraordinaire; Eugene Jablonsky, on guitar; and Liz Dreisbach, on clarinet, whistle, and banjo-uke—additional family members ex tempore.
Contact Liz Dresibach at (509) 536-1126 or [email protected].
Floating Crowbar
Floating Crowbar plays traditional Irish music.
Contact James Hunter at (509) 844-2785.
Prestwold Players
The group performing Contra dance and English country dance music consists of Margie Heller, Lorna Woelfel, Emily Faulkner, and Steve Riggan. This band formed during a music workshop at the Lady of the Lake Dance and Music Camp. The band is named after a lovely country manor in Leicestershire, England, which historically hosted English country dances. It was the ancestral home of Steve’s family in the 1600s before they immigrated to America.
Contact Steve Riggan at [email protected].
Reel Friends
Reel Friends plays lively contradance music featuring Tashie Dial on accordion, Brendan Biele on guitar, and Ken Raymond on mandolin.
Contact Brendan at (509) 869-5997 or [email protected].
River City Ramblers (Spokane, WA)
The River City Ramblers perform as an old-time string band, featuring fiddler Judy Lungren, mandolinist Bill Siems, and guitarist Dawn Holladay. They play lively dance music for contras, squares, and just listening.
Contact Judy Lungren at (509) 209-7182 or [email protected] for booking.
If you would like us to add you to our referral list or modify your listing, please email [email protected] or call the Fall Folk Festival message phone at (509) 828-3683.
Arvid Lundin & Twisted Roots play Scandinavian music, including hambos, schottisches, waltzes, and polkas.
Contact Arvid Lundin at (509) 994-4894 or [email protected].
Crooked Kilt
Crooked Kilt consists of three multi-instrumentalist and vocalist band members who have produced four CDs. Some instruments featured include the fiddle, accordion, guitar, bouzouki, piano, Highland pipes, bodhran, djembe, assorted hand percussion instruments, and three-part vocals. The band has been around for 30 years and has played festivals, weddings, wakes, parties, and contra dances.
Contact Carla Carnegie at (509) 592-7875 or [email protected].
Website: www.crookedkilt.net.
Dog Paw
Dog Paw is a bi-musical family contradance band that plays both Northern and Southern styles. Members include Sally Jablonsky, fiddler extraordinaire; Eugene Jablonsky, on guitar; and Liz Dreisbach, on clarinet, whistle, and banjo-uke—additional family members ex tempore.
Contact Liz Dresibach at (509) 536-1126 or [email protected].
Floating Crowbar
Floating Crowbar plays traditional Irish music.
Contact James Hunter at (509) 844-2785.
Prestwold Players
The group performing Contra dance and English country dance music consists of Margie Heller, Lorna Woelfel, Emily Faulkner, and Steve Riggan. This band formed during a music workshop at the Lady of the Lake Dance and Music Camp. The band is named after a lovely country manor in Leicestershire, England, which historically hosted English country dances. It was the ancestral home of Steve’s family in the 1600s before they immigrated to America.
Contact Steve Riggan at [email protected].
Reel Friends
Reel Friends plays lively contradance music featuring Tashie Dial on accordion, Brendan Biele on guitar, and Ken Raymond on mandolin.
Contact Brendan at (509) 869-5997 or [email protected].
River City Ramblers (Spokane, WA)
The River City Ramblers perform as an old-time string band, featuring fiddler Judy Lungren, mandolinist Bill Siems, and guitarist Dawn Holladay. They play lively dance music for contras, squares, and just listening.
Contact Judy Lungren at (509) 209-7182 or [email protected] for booking.
If you would like us to add you to our referral list or modify your listing, please email [email protected] or call the Fall Folk Festival message phone at (509) 828-3683.
