1st Annual Square Dance with Foghorn String Band

'likely to be a highlight of the year for downtown Roanoke!

The perfect band, caller, time of the year, location!

Starting with a show from Foghorn String Band then transitioning into a no holds barred square dance for all ages, types, skills.

With renowned caller and dance aficionado, Anna Roberts-Gevalt. Anna guides you from no knowledge to confident personalized square-dance stepping around the patio.

The internationally renowned Foghorn String Band features Sammy Lind’s blazing fiddling and rough-and-tumble singing interlaced with Caleb Klauder’s hard-driving mandolin picking and dry, dusty voice and adds French Acadian Nadine Landry on vocals, upright bass and guitar with intertwining harmonies throughout.
Foghorn draws from the same repertoire that has always inspired their work: the tunes and songs of the American South, from the hollers of Appalachia to the bling of 1950s Nashville. Each member is a multi-instrumentalist, with Sammy Lind adding guitar and banjo to his fiddling, and Caleb Klauder adding fiddle and guitar to his mandolin stylings. It’s a whole new world today for folk musicians, and these three traditionalists prove that they’re still riding on the cutting edge, with one foot in the analog past and one foot in the digital future.

http://foghornstringband.com/

Want to dress for the occasion? Check out Freckles (on facebook), 16-A Kirk Ave, downtown Roanoke 540-588-6174 - vintage fashion.

free. refreshments provided.

personal note: Square dancing is terrific cause it doesn't require acrobatic skills and endless learning like swing dancing seems to, and leaves room for personal additions and style and actions.