The Friday Night Dance thanks you all for a year's worth of swings, twirls, and love.
You danced to 24 touring bands & 19 local, 18 local callers and 18 touring.
Average attendance was 171 dancers, with the biggest 264.
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Human beings are meant to sing and dance. If you have not sang and danced in a while, you should try contradance and sacred harp.
Four Days of ๐ช๐ถ๐น๐น ๐ ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ผ๐ฟ and ๐ฆ๐ง๐ข๐ ๐ฃ ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐๐๐ง!
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ 11/6 Bumper Car Squares 7:30pm
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๐๐๐๐๐ 11/7 in the Spanish Ballroom 8pm
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ 11/8 Ballroom Blum!
fsgw.org/event-6357554 2:30-5:30pm
fsgw.org/event-6358118 7-10pm
๐๐๐๐๐๐ 11/9 Bumper Car Pavilion 3-6pm
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SUNDAY Oct 19: a FREE CONTRA DANCE with the greatest DC talent at the Washington Folk Festival! Lots of dancing and music and FOOD TRUCKS too!
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๐ซ๐จ๐๐ค calling with music by ๐๐ก๐๐ซ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ณ๐๐ซ (piano), ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐๐ง ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐ญ,(flute) ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ (mandolin, mandola)
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This Friday! Dance to Cojiro with calling by Julian Blechner! Come alone or with friends! No experience or partner required. Lesson @ 7:30pm, dance starts at 8pm. About 30 new beginners and 100+ veteran dancers every Friday. At the Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo Park!
Contrastock! An awesome all-day contra dance, Sunday, September 7, 2025 from 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm (with a break for a potluck dinner).
Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo Park, MD.
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Get tickets now!
ALERT! On Labor Day Weekend the Friday Night Dance will be in SILVER SPRING, NOT GLEN ECHO! Tell all the dancers you know, because some dancers will show up at the Spanish Ballroom and be cruelly disappointed! In Silver Spring there's parking, A/C, and Metro! Join us!
#contradance #dcdance
Try contra dancing! Every Friday night, almost always in the glorious Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo National Park outside of DC. #contradance #dcdance #contradancing
This Friday August 15th! Greg Frock calling to Gyrations!
We are so lucky that humans get to go to a contra dance with THIS band and THIS caller in THIS glorious dance community.
Try contra! Easy and SO, SO FUN!
#contradance #glenechoparkmd #dcdance #contradancing
Somewhere in the Americas we need to put in the contribution of African-American call-and-response to both east and west coast. As far as I know (and I don't know much!), the Brits did not call during the dances--that's an African American thing.
One neat thing Iโve used Cursor for recently is translating my contra dance programs from photos of my physical cards to the YAML format I use to record them.
#ML #AI
I called for a lovely small dance (30 dancers) in Hot Springs, NC last night. Hosted by Charley Harvey. Music by Paul Moore, Laura Lengnick, and Art Schuster. It's a lovely space. Please come to their monthly dance if you're in the area. #contradance #hotspringsnc
We can't turn back time, but if we spin real fast, somehow it slows down. Our research team investigates the time-space continuum EVERY FRIDAY. Won't you come join us? Music by UNBOWED
at the Friday Night Contra Dance at the Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo! #contradance #dcdance #glenechoparkmd โ
The music is awesome and hard, but contra dance is awesome and easy! www.fridaynightdance.com/what-is-cont...
We dance almost every Friday in the year at Glen Echo! This Friday August 1st we'll be in the Spanish Ballroom as Thursday's rain brings the temperature down to 70 so we can dance hard to Southern Maryland's finest contra band SOME ASSEMBLY and DC's fave caller April Blum!
Tonight in the Spanish Ballroom! Contra dance to one of the best DC callers and bands! Come alone or with friends! It's easy and fun! $15 tickets at the door or here: www.eventbrite.com/e/contra-dan...
Add Janine Smith, The Hollertones, TEQUILA, and a full Bumper Car Pavilion and you get pure bliss! #contradance #contradancing #glenechoparkMD #folkmusic #mandolin
Janine Smith, The Hollertones, and TEQUILA! A winning combo at the Glen Echo Contra Dance last Friday! #contradance #contradancing #glenechoparkMD
The view from down the hall with Kingfisher playing Glen Echo and Alex Deis-Lauby calling the dances! #contradance #glenechoparkmd #dcdance #contradancing
The view from the stage last night with Kingfisher and caller Alex Deis-Lauby! #contradance #glenechoparkmd #dcdance #contradancing
Last night's dance with Kingfisher and caller Alex Deis-Lauby! #contradance #glenechoparkmd #contradancing #dcDance
Last night at Glen Echo with Kingfisher and caller Alex Deis-Lauby! #contradance #glenechoparkmd #contradancing
Kingfisher! Coming to Baltimore on Wed. night, and Glen Echo on Friday Feb. 21st! With caller Alex Deis-Lauby! Don't miss it!
Friendly reminder from Kaylieee on TikTok
Try it this Friday at Glen Echo! www.tiktok.com/@kylie_bj/vi... #contradancing #contradance #glenechoparkmd #dcDance
Dancing to Terpsichore last Friday in the glorious Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo! Calling by Melissa Chatham! Video by @elifnisapolat on IG. Dancing by the usual mix of long-time contra dancers and beginners there for the first time. It's easy enough that you can do it too! #contradance
Terpsichore nailing the transition to "Campbell's Farewell to Red Gap" at the Friday Night Contra dance Jan 31st at Glen Echo! #contradance #glenechoparkmd #dcDance #dcEvents #contradancing
This Friday! Anna Rain calls to Frog Hammer at the Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo Park! Beginners welcome! Get there in time for the 7:30 lesson. Or don't--it's that easy! #contradance #dcDance #dcEvents #dcCulture #fridaynightdancers #ceilidh
We are so stoked about the talent gracing the Glen Echo contra dances in the next three months. Take a look and plan ahead! Or just dance them ALL! #contradance #glenechoparkmd #DCdance #DCculture #DCevents #contradancing
