Adults: $10-15 — Students: $8 — High School: $6
First-timers who attend our 7pm Beginner's Lesson: FREE
Our Regular Venue (above) is the
Pacific Lodge Masonic Hall
99 Main St, Amherst, MA
Between the Black Sheep Deli and the Police Station
Our Summer Venue is the
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst
121 N. Pleasant St, Amherst, MA
Our summer dances are held at the UU Church. Please enter through the right-side door. Our dance returns to the Masonic Hall in the fall.
Please bring a water bottle and soft soled shoes. This is a fragrance-free and substance-free event. Please refrain from wearing scented products. Dances are smoke, drug and alcohol free.
The Downtown Amherst Contra Dance prides itself on being a very safe and welcoming community. If you ever have physical or emotional safety concerns at our dance, please reach out to a committee member and we will attend to the issue as quickly as possible. Committee members are identifiable by our buttons, which say "committee" and have a ribbon around them. Help us make our dance as safe as it possibly can be for you and everyone else!
Dance Schedule
October 9, 2019 - No Dance
Go to the Hampshire College Red Barn! directions
Dancing: 7:30pm - 10pm; Beginner's Lesson: 7pm
Calling: Liz Nelson
Music: Cedar Stanistreet (fiddle) and Donal Sheets (guitar)
More details in their Facebook event
October 16, 2019
Calling: Dereck Kalish
Music: Dead Sea Squirrels
Cathy Mason - fiddle
Craig Edwards - fiddle, mandolin, banjo
Henry Yoshimura - guitar
October 23, 2019
Calling: Lisa Greenleaf
Music: Cedar Stanistreet, Jesse Ball, and Guillaume Sparrow-Pepin
Cedar Stanistreet - fiddle
Jesse Ball - mandolin, guitar, piano, feet
Guillaume Sparrow-Pepin - accordion, piano
October 30, 2019
Calling: Sarah VanNorstrand
Music: Casey Murray, Donal Sheets, and friends
Casey Murray - cello, guitar
Donal Sheets - cello, guitar, piano
And a guest fiddler
November 6, 2019
Calling: Hannah Johlas
Music: Wry Bred
Julie Sorcek - flute, sax
Mickey Koth - fiddle
Robert Messore - guitar
November 13, 2019 - No Dance
November 20, 2019
Calling: Kristen Planeaux
Music: Golden
Clara Stickney - fiddle
Jesse Ball - mando, piano, guitar, feet
Everest Whitman - guitar, feet
November 27, 2019 - No Dance
December 4, 2019
Calling: Dereck Kalish
Music: REELation
Carol Bittenson - Fiddle
Alex Cumming - Accordion/Piano
Steve Bittenson - Frets
Rick Kaufman - Bass
December 11, 2019 - No Dance
December 18, 2019
Calling: Liz Nelson
Music: Bartieni Street
Cedar Stanistreet - fiddle
David Cantieni - flute, sax, bombarde
Kate Barnes - piano, guitar
December 25, 2019 - No Dance
Click here to download a PDF of the current Amherst flyer
Dances organized by Amherst Area Contradances, a group of local dance enthusiasts. For information, Click HERE
This dance series is funded in part by the New Leaders, Good Leaders Fund of the Country Dance and Song Society
