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This calendar shows local and PCDC affiliated events. To see more (and to be able to filter by type of events) go to our extended regional calendar.

Events in January 2025

  • PCDC New Year's Celebration Contra Dance at NORSE HALL: Countercurrent and Fiddle Hellions Big Band with Jesse Partridge and Noah Grunzweig

    PCDC New Year's Celebration Contra Dance at NORSE HALL: Countercurrent and Fiddle Hellions Big Band with Jesse Partridge and Noah Grunzweig

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    Sat Jan 4, 2025

    PCDC New Year\'s Celebration Contra Dance at NORSE HALL: Countercurrent and Fiddle Hellions Big Band with Jesse Partridge and Noah Grunzweig

    Sat., Jan 4, 2025 , 7:30pm to 12:15am

    The Big "New Year's Dance" at Norse Hall

    TWO BANDS! TWO CALLERS!

    The Portland Country Dance Community (PCDC) will once again create our New Year's extravaganza at Norse Hall, on SATURDAY, JANUARY 4th.  Contra Dancing will fill the grand ballroom all evening!

    $15-$35 Sliding scale admission.

    Special times for this event: Newcomer contra lesson starts at 7:30 pm, dancing 8:00 pm – 12:15 am.
    Norse Hall, 111 NE 11th Ave, Portland, OR 97232

    Countercurrent from Olympia will open the evening, featuring Alex Sturbaum (Guitar) and Brian Lindsay (fiddle), then we'll have the Fiddle Hellions Big Band featuring Betsy Branch and George Penk on fiddles, Sue Songer on keyboard, and Bill Tomczak on horns. Callers Jesse Partridge (Olympia) and Noah Grunzweig will call dances using gender-neutral terms .

    Covid protocols: Though not required, masking and up-to-date vaccination is recommended to help keep our community healthy. Refer to the PCDC Covid policy for details.

    You can download a flier for this event.

    111 NE 11th Av
    Portland, Oregon 97232
    503-972-3329
    Map Norse Hall
  • PCDC 1st Monday Free Contra Slow Jam

    PCDC 1st Monday Free Contra Slow Jam

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    Mon Jan 6, 2025

     

    PCDC sponsors a contra slow jam on the 1st and 3rd Mondays from 7-9 PM in the community room at McMenamins Kennedy School, 5736 NE 33rd Ave, Portland, OR 97211.

    The events are free and open to all acoustic musicians, whether you play by dots or by ear.

    The contra jam plays tunes from the Portland Collection and the waltz books edited by Bill Matthiesen.

    If you don’t have the books, we’re happy to share. Come make music with us!!

    Questions:  Email Kathy Story, PCDC President

    McMenamins Kennedy School
    5736 NE 33rd Ave
    Portland, Oregon 97211
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  • PCDC FREE Community Jam Session

    PCDC FREE Community Jam Session

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    Thu Jan 9, 2025

    Leader: TBA

    Location: TBA (email sharonjeanallen@yahoo.com)

    No cost to participants! All instruments, all levels welcome!

    Once per quarter we'll gather for a community jam session.  Tunes will be played by ear from the common contra dance repertoire.  For recordings of tunes taught at past 2nd Thursday Tune Teaching sessions, see:

    PCDC Sessions (google.com)

    If you are interested in learning more tunes by ear, the Contra Tune Teaching Sessions are FREE and meet the 2nd Thursday of the month.  Tunes are taught by George Penk or Betsy Branch, alternating between SW and SE Portland.  The focus is on developing a common repertoire to play by ear at jams and at 5th Saturday Open Band contra dances. The repeated monthly schedule is:

    ||: George | Betsy | jam :||

    For more information and to get on the email announcement list:

    sharonjeanallen@yahoo.com

    Contact organizer
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  • PCDC 2nd Monday Free ECD Slow Jam

    PCDC 2nd Monday Free ECD Slow Jam

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    Mon Jan 13, 2025

    PCDC sponsors an ECD slow jam on the 2nd and 4th Mondays from 7-9 PM in the community room at McMenamins Kennedy School, 5736 NE 33rd Ave, Portland, OR 97211.

    The events are free and open to all acoustic musicians, whether you play by dots or by ear.

    The ECD jam plays tunes from the Barnes Collection. If you don’t have the books, we’re happy to share. Come make music with us!!

    Questions:  Email Kathy Story, PCDC President 

     

     

    McMenamins Kennedy School
    5736 NE 33rd Ave
    Portland, Oregon 97211
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  • PCDC 3rd Monday FREE Contra Slow Jam

    PCDC 3rd Monday FREE Contra Slow Jam

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    Mon Jan 20, 2025

     

    PCDC sponsors a contra slow jam on the 1st and 3rd Mondays 7pm-9pm in the community room at McMenamins Kennedy School, 5736 NE 33rd Ave, Portland, OR 97211.

    The events are free and open to all acoustic musicians, whether you play by dots or by ear.

    The contra jam plays tunes from the Portland Collection and the waltz books edited by Bill Matthiesen.

    If you don’t have the books, we’re happy to share. Come make music with us!!

    Questions:  Email Kathy Story, PCDC President

     

    McMenamins Kennedy School
    5736 NE 33rd Ave
    Portland, Oregon 97211
    View Location
    Map McMenamins Kennedy School
  • PCDC 4th Monday Free ECD Slow Jam

    PCDC 4th Monday Free ECD Slow Jam

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    Mon Jan 27, 2025

    PCDC sponsors an ECD slow jam on the 2nd and 4th Mondays from 7-9 PM in the community room at McMenamins Kennedy School, 5736 NE 33rd Ave, Portland, OR 97211.

    The events are free and open to all acoustic musicians, whether you play by dots or by ear.

    The ECD jam plays tunes from the Barnes Collection. If you don’t have the books, we’re happy to share. Come make music with us!!

    Questions:  Email Kathy Story, PCDC President

    McMenamins Kennedy School
    5736 NE 33rd Ave
    Portland, Oregon 97211
    View Location
    Map McMenamins Kennedy School