Tom Roby's Past Calling & Teaching Gigs (from May 2003)

Date Type Location Caller Musicians and Dance Info
Fri. 5/3/03 Balkan Albany: YMCA Tom Roby Recorded music; Teaching Drumul Dracului, Dragaicuta & Staro Oro
Wed. 5/14/03 English Berkeley: GNC Tom Roby David Strong, Shira Kammen, Debra Tayleur
Fri. 5/23/03 Balkan Albany: YMCA Tom Roby Recorded music; Reviwing Drumul Dracului, Dragaicuta & Staro Oro, possibly more

Fri. 8/1/03

English

Palo Alto: MT

Tom Roby

Nonesuch Country Dance Players (Stan & Susan Kramer, Mark Daly, Paul Kostka) with Craig Johnson

Sat. 9/27/03 Adv. English Berkeley: GNC Tom Roby Craig Johnson
Sat. 10/25/03 Adv. English Berkeley: GNC Tom Roby Bill Jensen, Stan & Susan Kramer
Sat. 11/22/03 Adv. English Berkeley: GNC Tom Roby Rebecca King, David Mostardi, Erin Vang
Fri. 2/6/04 Contra Sonoma: FAHA Tom Roby Erin Shrader & Marc Hansen.
Sat. 2/7/04 Contra Monterey: YMCA Tom Roby Alan Roberts (Seattle, WA) and Eric Anderson .
Wed. 2/25/04 English Berkeley: GNC Tom Roby open band led by Laurie Chastain, & Charlie Hancock
Fri. 2/27/04 Contra SF: St. Paul's Tom Roby Erin Shrader, Charlie Hancock, & Chris Knepper
Fri. March 19 -
Sun. March 21, 2004		 Contras, Squares, English, couple, etc. Monte Toyon Lisa Greenleaf, Kathy Anderson, Tom Roby

BACDS Spring Dance Weekend with
Latter-Day Lizards (Mass. - Peter Barnes, Bill Tomczak, and Dave Langford)
Bag o' Tricks (Seattle - Anita Anderson, Dave Bartley, and Sande Gillette)
Ray Bierl, Craig Johnson, Carlo Calabi

Fri. April 2, 2004 Playford Ball Rehearsal San Mateo Masonic Temple Cavalcade of Callers (Sharon Green, Alan Winston, and Tom Roby

BACDS Playford Ball Weekend with
Ruth Anne Fraley, Shira Kammen, & Jim Oakden

Sat. April 3, 2004 BACDS Playford Ball Greek Orthodox Cathedral Tom Roby

BACDS Playford Ball with
Flashpoint Plus (Rebecca King, Jon Berger, and Howard Booster, w/ Erin Vang)

Wed. 4/14/04 English Berkeley: GNC Tom Roby Avis Minger, Michael Siemon, & Debra Tayleur,

Fri. 4/16/04

English

Palo Alto: MT

Tom Roby

Nonesuch Country Dance Players (Stan & Susan Kramer, Mark Daly, Paul Kostka) with Elia Van Tuyl

Sat. 24 April 2004 Romanian Revisited NEFFA Festival (Natick, MA) Tom Roby Tom Pixton (Revisit Romanian line and couple dances that have undeservedly fallen out of balkan folkdance repertoire. Expedient teaching for maximal dancing.)
Wed. August 25, 2004 English Boston (Medford), MA: SpringStep Tom Roby Dave Langford & Jacqueline Schwab
Wed. 9/22/04 English Berkeley: GNC Tom Roby open band led by Midnight Smorgasbord (Jon Berger, Erin Vang, Noel Cragg)
Sat. 10/9/04 English SF: Bethany Tom Roby Stan & Susan Kramer, Debra Tayleur
Sat. 10/30/04 Contra Sacramento Tom Roby Swing Farm (Ray Bierl, Charlie Hancock, & Steven Strauss)
Wed. 11/10/04 English Berkeley: GNC Tom Roby David Strong, Danny Carnahan, Noel Cragg
Sun. 29 Nov. 2004 Toronto Netherfield Ball Christ the Saviour Russian Orthodox Cathedral Hall Tom Roby

Green Willow (Catherine Campbell, Stephen Fuller, Vicki Obedkoff)

Sat. 22 January 2005 English Berkeley: GNC Tom Roby Midnight Smorgasbord (Jon Berger, Erin Vang, Noel Cragg)
Wed. 26 January 2005 English Berkeley: GNC Tom Roby Avis Minger, Michael Siemon, & Debra Tayleur
Sat. 12 Feb. 2005 English SF: Bethany Tom Roby Craig Johnson, Stan & Susan Kramer
Sun. 13 Feb. 2005 English Roseville Masonic Temple Tom Roby Quite Carried Away
Wed. 6 April 2005 Boston Centre English Party Boston (Arlington), MA: Park Avenue Congregational Church Tom Roby Bare Necessities (Peter Barnes, Earl Gaddis, Mary Lea, Jacqueline Schwab)
Sat. 9 Apr. 2005 Waltz Better Now New England Folk Festival (Main Hall) Tom Roby

Tom and Barbara Pixton

Wed. 11 May 2005

English

Berkeley: GNC

Tom Roby

Shira Kammen, Susan Worland, Charlie Hancock

Fri. 20 May 2005 Toronto English Dance St. Barnabas Anglican Church Tom Roby

Relative Harmony (Rick Avery, Judy Greenhill, Jonathan Avery, Katie Avery)

Fri. 27 May 2005 Contra SF: St. Paul's Tom Roby The Figments (Ethan Hazzard-Watkins [VT], Anna Patton [VT], Owen Morrison [VA])
Sat. 28 May 2005 Experienced English Berkeley: GNC Tom Roby Charlie Hancock, Susan Worland, and Laurie Chastain
For experienced English Country dancers

Fri. 1 July 2005

English

Palo Alto: MT

Tom Roby

Nonesuch Country Dance Players (Stan & Susan Kramer, Mark Daly, Paul Kostka) with

Sat. 2 July 2005 Contra Monterey: YMCA Tom Roby Stump Tail Dog (Dan Engle & Ray Frank) .

Sat. 5 November 2005

Macedonian

Nomad Festival (New Haven)

Tom Roby

Gogofski Trio: Melinda Fields, David Golber, Henry Goldberg 9:00-10:00 p.m.

Sun. 6 November 2005

Romanian Remembered

Nomad Festival (New Haven)

Tom Roby

Hijaz: Carrie Crompton, Karen Howard, David Schonfeld, Debby Szajnberg 12:00-1:00p.m.

Sun. 6 November 2005

English

Nomad Festival (New Haven)

Tom Roby

Little Audobon Band: Marshall Barron, Phoebe Barron, Grace Feldman, Margaret Ann Martin 3:00-4:00p.m.
Sat. 3 December 2005 Contra New Haven Country Dancers (St. Thomas's Episcopal Church) Tom Roby The Fiddleheads Sponsored by The New Haven Country Dancers
Sat. 22 April 2006 Romanian Remembered NEFFA Festival (Natick, MA) Tom Roby Tom Pixton (Revisit Romanian line and couple dances that have undeservedly fallen out of balkan folkdance repertoire. Expedient teaching for maximal dancing.)

Sat. 6 May 2006

English

Amherst Asembly

Tom Roby

Joyce Crouch & lydia ievins

Wed. 26 July 2006 Boston Centre English Party Belmont, MA: First Church in Belmont UU Tom Roby Step Lightly (Joyce Crouch, Ethan Hazzard-Watkins, & Anna Patton)

Sat. 4 November 2006

Zesty English

Nomad Festival (New Haven)

Tom Roby

Hudson Crossing: George Davis, Sue Polansky & Joyce Crouch 4:00-5:00p.m.

Sat. 4 November 2006

Dick Crum Dances

Nomad Festival (New Haven)

Tom Roby

Hijaz: Carrie Crompton, Karen Howard, David Schonfeld, Debby Szajnberg 7:00-8:00p.m.
Sat. 2 December 2006 Contra New Haven Country Dancers (St. Thomas's Church) Tom Roby The Fiddleheads Sponsored by The New Haven Country Dancers

Sat 6 January 2007

English

Amherst Asembly ("Dance Epiphanies")

Tom Roby

Joyce Crouch & lydia ievins

Sat 20 January 2007

English

Amherst, MA (Munson Library)

Tom Roby

Pleasures of the Town (Joyce Crouch & Doug Creighton)

Sat. 3 February 2007 Contra Quiet Corner Contra Dance (Hampton Congregational Church, 256 Maint St (CT Route 97), Hampton CT) Tom Roby Cathy Mason & Craig Edwards
Info: Rich Donovan donovr(AT)yahooDDOTTcom 860 455 1385
Sat. 21 April 2007 Tricky Dick Dances NEFFA Festival (Mansfield, MA) Tom Roby Tom Pixton (Interesting balkan folk dances taught by the late, great Dick Crum; expedient teaching for maximal dancing.)
Sun. 7 May 2007 Brattleboro Balkan Dance Corner of Main & Grove St. Tom Roby XOPO Teaching easy walkthroughs FMI: rachelleackerman(ATTT)yahoo.com
Sun. 3 June 2007 Brattleboro Balkan Dance Corner of Main & Grove St. Tom Roby XOPO FMI: rachelleackerman(ATTT)yahoo.com
Email comments or corrections (delete zzz from eddress) to troby@math.uconn.eduzzz.

General information about most of the SF Bay Area English Country and Contra Dances listed above, along with directions and maps to the halls, is available from the very useful fussell.org website , whence I shamelessly borrowed the html code.

Here's a link to the Bay Area Country Dance Society (BACDS) Website .

Here is the list of upcoming events where I'll be teaching.

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