Wintergreen 2024
We are hoping to host Wintergreen again in 2024. Before then, we hope you will join us for Summergreen 2024 in beautiful Paradise Valley.
Wintergreen 2022 – Cancelled
January 28th-30th, 2022
Urban Contra Dance Weekend in Bozeman, MT
You know Audrey Knuth is performing if the room is buzzing at a higher level. Her fiddling, featured in bands including The Free Raisins, The Gaslight Tinkers, Audacious (with Larry Unger), and Wake Up Robin, has electrified dance and concert halls across the US and Europe.
Hailing from Honolulu and now living in California, she cut her folk teeth in the Boston area, attending Berklee College of Music and spending years exploring the thriving New England folk scene. Audrey’s fiddle playing is rhythmically lively and spontaneous; she’s guaranteed to get you up and dancing. She specializes in Contra and English Dance tunes, Irish and Old Time tunes (and did we mention she’s also an audio engineer?!).
You might also have taken a workshop with Audrey, as she’s been on staff at various camps including CDSS English week at Pinewoods, Ashokan Northern Week, BACDS American week, and Halsway Manor.
Max Newman plays traditional music, particularly that of New England, where he lives. He performs for dancers a lot, exploring the connections of music and dance.
He has played in quite a few spots at this point: across the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom–large festivals, tiny New England grange halls, in the dusty Nevada desert, and many a night with friends by a wood stove in the chilly north of Alaska. You’ll find him in a number of leading dance bands, but he’s perhaps best known for his work in the Stringrays.
Classically trained and folk-inspired, Barley & Sage creates a wide spectrum of dance music. Betsy Richards (fiddle) and Steve Marty (guitars and foot percussion) present a lively mix of jigs, reels and waltzes ranging from renaissance to contemporary, including early American, Celtic, French Canadian and original tunes.
When Betsy’s full-throttled fiddling combines with the driving rhythm of Steve’s guitar and foot percussion, the result is a compelling force that will give lift to your dancing shoes.
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Will Mentor is a contra and square dance caller from Northern Vermont known for his clear teaching, upbeat wit, and relaxed stage presence. He loves to choreograph evenings with a variety of dances and tempos that at times surprise and always delight, all the while keeping intact his guiding principle as a caller: “It’s about the dancers!”
Caller Bev Young has been inspiring dancers of all ages and abilities to joyfully move through square, circle and contra dances for over 30 years. She began calling in Raleigh, NC as one of the founders of Pinecone, the Piedmont Council of Traditional Music. She continues regular calling today throughout western Montana at community monthly dances. She has been a featured caller at the Montana Folk Festival and Northwest Folklife Festival in Seattle. Bev loves to accompany dance music with her “happy feet,” clogging to the driving rhythms of old-time, Quebecois and Irish music.
Bev has also participated in and taught shape-note singing, using the Sacred Harp hymnal, for the last 3 decades. Sacred Harp is a uniquely American tradition that brings communities together to sing three and four-part a cappella hymns and anthems. It is a proudly inclusive and democratic part of our shared cultural heritage.
Tribute to David Kaynor
As part of the programing we will feature music and dances of our late friend David Kaynor, beloved musician, caller, teacher, and dance organizer.
Sound by the indefatigable Roy Curet, who can also be counted on for wry humor and help with crossword puzzles.
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Please thank the sponsors and donors who help make the event possible.
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