Three-Day Festival will feature a community contra dance on Saturday at 1 pm. No experience or partner required. All dances taught. Live music with Rock Candy (Terry Barrett and Karana Drayton). Courthouse Park (1100 Van Ness Avenue, Downtown Fresno, Complete festival details: https://gathering.actaonline.org/
Evo Bluestein has brought traditional American forms of community dance to California schools and communities for many years.
By the numbers, Evo plays 14 instruments, teaches 12 instruments, and has spent 5 decades in professional performance. He sings, clogs, and calls English country, contra, and square dances, and he co-founded both the Fresno Folklore Society and the California Autoharp Gathering. At the festival, Evo will be calling a contra and square dance, with Terry Barrett and Karana Drayton accompanying him to make up a fiddle, banjo, and mandolin trio.
Dance with us at the Great Valley Gathering this October!