Sharon Green

Sharon Green first encountered English country dancing as a total beginner at Pinewoods English Week in 1988 and has been in love with it and with English dancers ever since. A confirmed dance gypsy, Sharon has led dances and workshops in the United States, Canada, England, and, most memorably, Japan, but is most happy when her wanderings bring her back to Pinewoods and to English Week.

English Dance Week at Pinewoods

Peter Barnes

Peter Barnes has been playing more instruments, in more genres, in more interesting locations, for longer than most of us can remember. Averaging over 250 gigs per year, he currently plays in the Latter Day Lizards, Bare Necessities, Big Bandemonium, Dark Carnival and Yankee Ingenuity. Peter also keeps himself busy with teaching, recording, publishing music books, composing and crafting wooden whistles.

http://www.canispublishing.com/

Early Music Week at Pinewoods

English Dance Musicians Course at Early Music Week

Harmony of Song & Dance at Pinewoods

English Dance Week at Pinewoods

Daniel Beerbohm

Daniel Beerbohm, on clarinet, flute and penny whistle, spices his English and contra dance playing from a rich background of swing, Klezmer and classical music. He performs extensively with Hold The Mustard, A Joyful Noise, and Reunion, at dances along the East coast and occasionally westward.

CDSS at Timber Ridge

Jon Berger

Jon Berger is well known in the West for his powerful fiddling and his ability to maintain a connection between the music, the dancers and the dance. A veteran of BACDS English, American and Family Weeks, and of California’s Renaissance and Dickens Fairs, Jon has played fiddle and concertina for morris, English country and contra dances since 1976. He is also a former member of Tempest, a Celtic rock band that plays for an entirely different style of dancing.

English Dance Week at Pinewoods

Philippe Callens

Philippe Callens, of Belgium, is returning for his sixth summer on staff at a CDSS Pinewoods dance week. Internationally known as a dance leader of English country dancing and other styles, Philippe combines high quality dancing with enjoyment. He has been active in the dance community for more than 30 years, teaching, publishing, reconstructing old and composing modern dances, and has called all over the U.S. for the last twenty years. Philippe has authored numerous publications. At the moment he is working on a new book of English dances, Seasons of Invention, accompanied by a CD by the bands A Joyful Noise and Hold the Mustard, which will be released this summer.

http://home.comcast.net/~redstarlinecd/philippe.htm

English Dance Week at Pinewoods

Helene Cornelius

Helene Cornelius, English country dance leader of CDS Boston Centre for forty years and a perennial favorite at our dance weeks at Pinewoods and Buffalo Gap, has made an invaluable contribution to the English dance community as a teacher, an arbiter of taste, an inspiration to generations of dancers and an incomparable builder of both historical and contemporary repertory.

English Dance Week at Pinewoods

Noel Cragg

Noel Cragg plays inspiring display dance music, and jazzy, swinging English (with Jon Berger and Erin Vang in Midnight Smorgasbord, among others). Master of piano and squeezebox, Noel brings a shot of brilliant energy to everything he plays.

English Dance Week at Pinewoods

Judy Erickson

Judy Erickson foreman of the groundbreaking dance troupe Orion Longsword, choreographs sword dances combining traditional steps and figures with innovative elements including Appalachian stepping, jazz and other American styles. In the step dancing world she is an accomplished dancer, choreographer and teacher, blending elements of Scottish, Appalachian, English clog and French-Canadian step dancing to develop her own steps and styles, both structured and improvisational. In recent years her step dance choreography has been an integral feature of Boston's Christmas Revels. Judy is also a past foreman of Muddy River Morris.

English Dance Week at Pinewoods

Brooke Friendly

Brooke Friendly is known for her warm yet commanding personality, her ability to convey directions concisely and clearly, her creativity and her sense of humor and whimsy. She has a strong sense of what makes for a good community and she makes the learning experience fun and relaxing. Brooke leads a weekly English and Scottish Country Dance in Ashland, OR and calls at balls and dances around the U.S. and Canada. She was on staff at the BACDS English Dance Week at Mendocino in 2003, and again in 2007 and 2008, serving as Program Director those two years. An internationally recognized dance choreographer, she has published three books of dances written in collaboration with her husband, Chris Sackett, and, with Chris, has organized choreographers' discussion sessions at Pinewoods English Week for the past two years.

http://www.brookefriendlydance.com/

English Dance Week at Pinewoods

Karen Geer

Karen Geer, from New York City, is a singer and tuba player. She received her degrees from Kent State University and Manhattan School of Music. She sings regularly in New York City and is the Executive Director of the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. Karen is married to Paul Friedman and has a daughter Molly.

English Dance Week at Pinewoods

Barbara Greenberg

Barbara Greenberg began fiddling during her college years and has been “dancing” on the band stand or a dance floor since 1980. Playing both Contra and English Country dance music with Hold The Mustard, A Joyful Noise, A Band Named Bob and Reunion, she is highly sought after to play and teach at dance weekends and camps. She has recorded 7 albums of dance music with her bands and has traveled internationally with them. When Barbara is not fiddling, she is preparing the next wave of fiddlers and violinists in her studio teaching.

CDSS at Timber Ridge

Jonathan Jensen

Jonathan Jensen is an inspired pianist in musical styles ranging from English country and contra to ragtime and jazz. Jon is a composer of brilliant dance tunes and waltzes, a frequent performer at dance events and a bassist with the Baltimore Symphony. When not playing piano at camp he is often filling in on whistle, recorder, ocarina or mandolin and offering his original songs, both silly and serious.

http://www.bsomusic.org/main.taf?p=4,4,1,1&id=JonathanJensen

English & American Dance Week at Pinewoods

Shira Kammen

Shira Kammen has spent well over half her life exploring the worlds of early and traditional music as a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist. A member for many years of Ensembles Alcatraz, Project Ars Nova and Medieval Strings, she has also worked with Sequentia, Hesperion XX, the Boston Camerata and the King's Noyse, and is the founder of Class V Music, an ensemble dedicated to performance on river rafting trips. She has performed and taught in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Israel, Morocco, Latvia, Russia, Japan and on the Colorado and Rogue rivers. Shira happily collaborated with singer/storyteller John Fleagle for 15 years and performs now with a diversity of collaborators, including storyteller Patrick Ball, the English country dance band Roguery, medieval ensembles Fortune's Wheel and Tapestry, and the California Revels, among many others. She occasionally has played on movie and television soundtracks, when weird medieval instruments are called for.

http://www.shirakammen.com/

English Dance Musicians Course at English Dance Week

English Dance Week at Pinewoods

Kalia Kliban

Kalia Kliban has been part of the Bay Area dance community since the mid-80s, performing and teaching morris, longsword, American and English clog and English country dance. She is program director for BACDS's upcoming Fall Frolick weekend and has also programmed BACDS Family Week. Her clear and humorous teaching style has gotten feet tapping at camps and gatherings throughout California and beyond.

Family Week at Pinewoods

Jim Oakden

Jim Oakden plays an absurd number of instruments from accordion to zurna. Having stumbled into early music from the classical music scene, he soon discovered traditional and ethnic dance and music. Jim has played for English and morris for 20 plus years, and performs as a dance musician in an eclectic array of genres. In California, he also has served as program director for several of BACDS's most popular dance weekends and weeks.

English Dance Week at Pinewoods

Anna Rain

Anna Rain's first tune book as a beginning recorder player (c. 1970) was Six English Country Dances. In choosing an ECD program, she is tune-driven: how does the melody inspire and support the dance figures? As an ECD leader, she channels the discipline of her day job as a certified Iyengar Yoga instructor, teaching efficiently and effectively, and calling every body to move with ease and grace. Anna plays recorder in two ECD bands: Hot Toddy (playing this year at NEFFA) and Night Cap (see us at Dance Flurry!).

Early Music Week at Pinewoods

Meg Ryan

Meg Ryan, from Northampton, MA, is an outstanding performer and teacher of both English and Anglo-American clog dance styles. She has studied under some of the masters of the traditions of English clog, including Pat Tracey and Alex Woodcock. Meg has performed in England, Canada and the U.S., and is a member of The New Dancing Marleys, who perform the routines of Anna Marley of Rockville, CT. She also teaches and performs Northwest Morris with Guiding Star Clog Morris from Greenfield, MA.

English Dance Week at Pinewoods