Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the sun sets in the town of Nelson on Monday night, a crowd of people meander into Town Hall with instruments and water bottles ...

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On Friday, July 3, do-si-do and swing into Independence Day weekend with friends and neighbors at the Flying Shoes dance series. The ...

Michele Norris reads from listeners' e-mail about a conversation with Chester Reed — who retired from the U.S. Postal Service at 95 — and about our story on the growing popularity of contra dancing ...

In the last 30 years, I've been contra dancing a grand total of seven times — and yet it is one of my absolute favorite things to do. I like the big, crowded boisterous version of a contra dance. If ...

Fifty years ago, Scott Russell and his girlfriend, Susan Davis, saw an ad in Creative Loafing for international folk dancing at Garden Hills Recreation Center. They decided to attend and joined about ...

The Contra Rebels, shown with Henry Korezky on guitar, Todd Clewell and Barb Schmid on fiddles, will return to the Fine Arts Fiesta on Sunday to play for a contra dance. Times Leader file photo There ...

With caller Bob Nicholson offering instruction, contra dancers form a circle in the hall at St. Faustina Parish Center in Nanticoke. You can expect a similar scene this Sunday, April 6, at St.

I am, at heart, a partner dancer. I primarily do two-step and lindy hop. I’ll line dance if the song is right, but it has never moved me the way two people dancing hand in hand does. This past winter, ...