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Country & Contra Dances in the Philadelphia region

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Philadelphia and north suburbs

  • Germantown Country Dancers (that's us!). Most 1st Saturdays, Summit Church, Mt. Airy. 8pm. Sometimes afternoon workshops also.

  • Heritage Festival Early Autumn, Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School.

  • Thursday Night Contra Dance Page Thursday nights, Glenside, PA. There's a 3rd Saturday contra dance also.

  • Philadelphia Square Dance. 2nd Tuesdays. St. Mary's on Penn Campus.

  • Fiddlekicks Appalacian Clogging Team. Saturday morning practice, Ambler area.

    Mainline, Delaware County

  • Germantown Country Dancers (that's us again!)-- English Country very Wednesday, 8pm, Merion, PA. Community Dance, most 2nd Sundays, 2pm. Longsword, 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, 6:15pm. Garland 2 Sunday afternoons a month. (Longsword and Garland are open to all.)

  • Chadds Ford, PA - 1st Wednesdays, 7:15pm. English Country Dance. Free. All welcome. Teacher: Laura Bailey. Contact: Mark Trozzi.

  • Delaware Valley Scottish Dance: Media, Lansdowne, Tanguy, Crosslands (near Longwood).

  • Swarthmore College Scottish & English

  • Kingsessing Morris. Monday nights, Merion, PA.

  • Mostly Waltz. 3rd Sundays. Broomall, PA.

    West of the Philadelphia region

  • Chester & Lancaster County Contra

  • Lancaster PA - . Third Tuesday Evenings, 7:00pm. 18th Century English Country Dance. Contact: Laura Bailey.

  • Carlisle, PA - First Thursday Evenings, 7:00pm. 18th Century English Country Dance. Free. All welcome. Teacher: Laura Bailey. Contact: Susan Gable.

  • Tapestry a Historic Dance Ensemble that performs Anglo and American social dancing from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Thursdays, Royersford, PA. The website is out of date: for information about place and times: 610-792-1608 or email.

    South Jersey

  • Pinelanders Country Dancers. Cinnaminson, NJ. Mondays. 856-779-9084.

  • Princeton English and Contra. Wednesdays.

  • 1st Friday English (Princeton area)

  • Delaware Valley Scottish Dance Wednesday nights, Cherry Hill.

  • Handsome Molly, Princeton NJ

    Delaware & Cecil County, MD

  • New Castle, DE - Third Monday Evenings, 7:00pm. English Country Dance. Free.
    New Castle Presybterian Church Social Hall, 25 East 2nd Street,
    Teacher: Laura Bailey. All welcome. Contact: Mike Connolly.

  • Delaware Valley Scottish Dance Monday nights, Newark, DE.

  • 1st Sunday Contra Arden, DE, afternoon.

  • New dance! Wilmington, DE - 2nd Thursdays, 7-9:30pm. Mix of ECD, International, Renaissance
    Cost: Free, but donations welcome (cash, canned goods, jewelry, real estate, whatever)
    Teachers: Tom Vincent, Jenny Brown
    First Unitarian Church
    730 Halstead Rd
    Wilmington DE 19803
    Information: Tom Vincent 302-379-6294.

    Directions (From I-95): North on Concord Pike (202) to the light at Whitby Road (If you see a shopping center on the left with a Staple's, you went too far). Turn left and go about a block. Church is on the left. Go through the big doors.

  • Elkton, MD Christ Presbyterian Church (Go to the calendar page and search for "dance".)
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    Please send corrections or additions for this page to Jenny Beer.

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