Venues
Here are some places you can find Karen and others calling dances of different styles
- The Monday Club in Webster Grove, MO regularly features contra dances, squares, and English. See the Childgrove web site for more info.
- The Focal Point in Webster Groves, MO has occasional contra dances and English country dances. See The Focal Point web site for more info.
- Louisville Country Dancers in Kentucky dance every Monday and third Saturdays at the Church of the Advent. See their site for details.
- The Urbana Country Dancers in Champaign/Urbana Illinois usually hold contra dances at the Phillips Recreation Center on first and third Fridays. Plus some other dates and locations. See their site for up to date info.
Bands
Folk music bands mix and match players and instruments, with every combination founding a new name. Given the dozens of local and hundreds of regional musicians who play regularly, plus the thousands who sit in for a gig or ten, there are uncountable band names.
This list of Bands who play for Childgrove Country Dancers is a start.
This website is hand-coded from scratch in NotePad++, by Karen's husband,
Dan Klarmann