PORT ANGELES — The Seattle band Countercurrent and caller Lindsey Dono will step up for another contra dance — open to all comers — at the Black Diamond Community Hall, 1942 Black Diamond Road, this Saturday night.
A beginners’ workshop and refresher gets things moving at 7:30 p.m.; Countercurrent supplies the music from 8 p.m. until 11 p.m.
As always, admission is a suggested $8 for adults and $4 for youths age 17, while no one is turned away for lack of funds.
Countercurrent features Alex Sturbaum, a multi-instrumentalist who studied traditional Irish music at the Riley School in Cincinnati, then played with bands there and in Louisville, Ky., and Oberlin, Ohio.
He went to Oberlin College to study biology and geology, discovered contra dancing while there, and along with bandmate Brian Lindsay founded the dance group Gallimaufry.
Also a songwriter, Sturbaum released his first full-length album, “Ride the Hydra,” in 2012.
Port Angeles’ contra dance enthusiasts are planning two more fall events: a dance with the Syncopaths band and caller George Marshall on Monday, Nov. 23, and the Bob Boardman Memorial Benefit Dance on Saturday, Dec. 5 with caller Carol Pening and the band the Possum Carvers, with other musicians and callers welcome to join in.
For more information, see blackdiamonddance.org or phone 360-457-5667.
