WEDNESDAY NIGHT SQUARE DANCE  
September 8, 2010
7:30pm

Caller: Jordan Ruyle

Music by Alice Gerrard, Candy Goldman & Karen Leigh

Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library
6501 Telegraph Ave (near 65th Street), Oakland
Admission sliding scale - $5 to $20

We are pleased to welcome Alice Gerrard back to the BOTMC; she was here last year and also in 2007 with Tom, Brad and Alice.  Alice Gerrard has been a musician and a proponent of traditional music since the 1960s, when she made the first of her recordings with Hazel Dickens on the Folkways Label. A native of the West Coast, Gerrard discovered traditional southern music while attending Antioch College in Ohio. Later, she made trips to the mountains of North Carolina and Virginia to visit and learn from traditional musicians, playing with them on field recordings and later in the studio. Gerrard has recorded and played with some of North Carolina’s most loved artists, including Elizabeth Cotton, Tommy Jarrell, and Joe and Odell Thompson. She also participated in the Southern Folk Festival tours as part of Anne Romaine and Bernice Johnson Reagan’s Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project, which brought white and black musicians together in the midst of the Civil Rights struggles to share songs and perform with one another in concerts throughout the south. In 1987 she founded the Old Time Herald, still the premier publication devoted to old time music, and two years later moved her home and the magazine to Durham. She continues to make recordings as a solo artist and with Brad Leftwich and Tom Sauber as Tom, Brad and Alice. The International Bluegrass Music Association honored Gerrard with a Distinguished Achievement Award in 2001. In 2009 she was the Lehman Brady Visiting Professor of Documentary Studies at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she shared her knowledge with a new generation of field recorders. In 2010, Alice received the North Carolina Folklore Society’s 2010 Brown-Hudson Award, honoring her for her contributions to North Carolina folk traditions.

Candy Goldman – Candy is a soft-spoken and extremely gifted old-time banjo player.  She has taught old-time music to hundreds of happy banjo players as part of the long-running (over 20 years!) string band class with the Canote Brothers in Seattle and also team-taught with Jimmy Triplett at Mars Hill College Old Time Week.

Karen Leigh, currently with the Creole Belles, has been playing traditional music since the early 70s, primarily as a rhythm guitarist. She toured and taught for many years with Kenny Hall's Long Haul String Band. Karen's dynamic playing has provided the backbone to a variety of bands including The Ethnophonic Orchestra, La Flor Perdida, Mariachi Relampago, K & the 2 L's, Dive for the Oyster and La Bolshevita.  She has performed with, among others, the Horseflies, the Savoy Family Band, Canray Fontenot, and Doc Watson. Karen has been on faculty at events throughout the U.S., including the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop, MerleFest, and the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes.

Jordan Ruyle - No dancing experience is needed -- Jordan will teach all dances from scratch and will call the moves all the way through. No need to bring a partner, although you can if you want. And same sex partners fit in fine.  All ages are welcome.