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Contra Dance | Adina Gordon with Celticladda

By ADMIN |

[ November 13, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Nelson Town Hall
Admission $8 / $6 seniors and students
Beginner’s Workshop 7:30
The Monadnock region’s hottest Celtic band returns to the Nelson Town Hall for an evening of energized dancing, lead by nationally renown caller Adina Gordon.
Celticladda is: Randy Miller, fiddle; Bill Thomas, Uillean pipes and flute, Gordon Peery, [...]

Published on June 30th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Calendar, Contra Dance, Dancing, Entertainment |
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Contra Dance with Mary DesRosiers

By ADMIN |

[ September 11, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Nelson Town Hall
Admission $8 / $6 seniors and students

Beginner’s Workshop 7:30

Join one of the Monadnock region’s finest callers for an evening of classic contras. Stratospheric music provided by the incredible Rodney Miller (fiddle), the impeccable Sarah Bauhan (flute and whistle), and the inimitable Gordon Peery [...]

Published on June 30th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Calendar, Dancing, Entertainment |
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Contra Dance | Don Primrose and Heathen Creek

By ADMIN |

[ October 9, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Nelson Town Hall
Admission $8 / $6 seniors and students

Beginner’s Workshop 7:30

The amazing Heathen Creek returns to the Nelson Town Hall, with caller Don Primrose at the helm.

Heathen Creek” is what happens when contra music has a head-on collision with Gen-X. Rutman’s scorching fiddle soars while Johannsen (guitar) and Koyama (mandolin) [...]

Published on June 30th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Calendar, Dancing, Entertainment |
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Contra Dance | Dead Sea Squirrels | Nelson Town Hall

By ADMIN |

[ March 12, 2011; 8:00 pm; ] Nelson Town Hall
Admission $8 / $6 seniors and students

Beginner’s Workshop 7:30

The Dead Sea Squirrels is a string band with a twist.  Our tunes come mainly from the Southern US, but because we play for contra dances, our repertoire is made up of danceable tunes arranged in medleys designed to closely match and [...]

Published on June 12th, 2010 | Category: Calendar, Contra Dance, Dancing, Music |
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May Day Celebration | Morris Dancers

By ADMIN |

[ May 2, 2010; 10:45 am to 12:00 pm. ] Come join us on May 2nd at 10:45 am for the traditional May Pole Dance on the Green.  The May Pole Dance dates back to the “Feast of Flora”, a supposed Goddess of the Flowers.  Today, we dance around the May Pole to celebrate a rite of Spring.

Our Morris dance teams, The Harrisville Morris Women [...]

Published on April 15th, 2010 | Category: Calendar, Cultural, Dancing |
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Nelson School Performs Oliver Twist Fri., April 16

By Betsy Street |

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The students from Nelson School will be performing an original musical adaptation of Oliver Twist at Keene High School at 6:30 pm on Friday.   Admission is free (donations gladly accepted).   Oliver Twist is an original musical adaptation of the classic Dickens tale of the orphaned boy whose good and sturdy spirit support him through the [...]

Published on April 13th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Dancing, Entertainment, Music, Nelson School | Leave a comment