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Contra Dance
COA hosts Fourth Saturday dance
Gates Community Center

Get to know your neighbors and local visitors when the Big Moose Contra Band plays College of the Atlantic's Gates Center on Saturday, July 26. Laugh and prance with a crowd of dancers and a slew of Big Moose Bandmusicians. Lessons begin at 7:30 p.m. Dancing starts at 8 p.m. Admission is $6.

Named for the road on which fiddler Ruth Grierson lives, the band is a mixture of musicians from the former Green Mountain Railway and the Winter Harbor-based Sheep Island Rovers. Besides Grierson, it includes Keith Davis on guitar, Chuck Donnelly on guitar and fiddle, fiddlers Charlie Richardson, young Emma Walsh and Kipp Quinby. Additionally, Quinby's father, David Quinby plays stand-up bass, Jim Vekasi plays mandolin and David Towle takes on the accordion.

For more information about the July26 dance at College of the Atlantic's Gates Center, call 288-5015.

Photo Caption: Top, left to right: Jim Vekasi, David Quinby, David Towle, Keith Davis, Charlie Richardson, Chuck Donnelly. Bottom: Kip Quinby, Emma Walsh, Ruth Grierson. Photo by Pat and John Hatton.




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