Musicians

• Established Musicians - Get involved as a mentor: share your experience and knowledge of dance music traditions to help the next generation of dance musicians join the movement!
  
• Emerging Musicians – Bring your enthusiasm as a band or as an individual, and help us create a mentoring experience that will help you. If what you need is individual attention from a mentor, we can help you find that. If you need experience and exposure playing for dances, we can create these opportunities for you!
• Musicians New to Contra Music – Come to our jam parties and sit in with the bands at our 3rd Sunday dances. Gain experience with the traditions, and then let us know when you’re ready for more!
• Email for more information.

Callers

• Established Callers – Call for our rocking dances! Teach from the stage, and help the band and dancers build upon the energy in the room, while encouraging dancers to have fun and dance with style and grace. Mentor a newer caller to pass along your skills, and work with less experienced bands to teach them the subtle tricks of the trade.
• Up-and-Coming Callers – We can hook you up with a mentor to shadow at their dance, or to observe your calling. Help us devise a mentoring situation that will help you!
• Brand New Callers – Call a dance at our parties and see how it goes! We’ll provide easy dances to call and a more experienced caller to help you out if you need it. Or come to a calling workshop, and we’ll get you started!
• Email for more information.

Sound Engineers

• Established Engineers – Talk to us about running a workshop or mentoring new people.
• Up and Coming Engineers – Gain experience by helping with sound at one of our dances or attending one of our intermediate workshops.
• People New To Sound – Come to one of our introductory workshops.
• Email for more information.

Dancers

• Come to our dances and parties!
• Bring friends who are new to contra.
• Share your enthusiasm with your friends and with the performers.
• Attend our workshops and learn ways to add pizazz to your dance experience.
• Dance and socialize with people you don’t know, people who are different ages, and people who are different experience levels to help us build an intergenerational dance community.
• Volunteer at our dances!
• Email for more information.

Organizers

• Talk to us about creating a workshop or co-hosting an event.
• Volunteer at our dances and parties to keep things running smoothly.
• Host a party!
• Help out with publicity.
• Join our board!

Contacts

• General Info:
  
• Volunteer to Help Organize an Event: Jeff Kaufman
  
• Volunteering at Dances: Audrey Knuth
  
• Caller Booking and Mentoring: Andrew Stout
  
• Musician Booking and Mentoring: Julie Vallimont