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 water 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
January 16, 2019
Music: David Cantieni, Cedar Stanistreet, Jesse Ball, and Ann Percival
Calling: Abigail Hobart
January 23, 2019
Blacklight Contras!
Specially-edited Music & Calling: Lisa Greenleaf
January 30, 2019
Music: Free Association
Calling: Ron Blechner and Yaron Shragai
Amy Larkin - fiddle
Deborah Knight - piano
Carol Bittenson - fiddle
February 6, 2019
Empowerment Contras!
Music: Chimney Swift
Calling: Dela Murphy
Zoe Madonna - accordion
Daniel Raine - cittern, guitar
Yaron Shragai - whistles, doumbek
Cecile Leroy - cello
February 13, 2019 - No Dance
February 20, 2019
Music: Larry Unger and George Wilson
Calling: Steve Zakon-Anderson
February 27, 2019
Music: Rachel Bell and Karen Axelrod
Calling: Dereck Kalish and Hannah Johlas
March 6, 2019
Music: Jesse Ball and Elizabeth Davidson-Blythe
Calling: George Marshall
March 13, 2019 - No Dance
March 20, 2019
Music: Carol Bittenson and Alex Cumming
Calling: Alex Deis-Lauby
March 27, 2019
Music: TECHNO CONTRA! with DJ Luminous
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
