English Country Dancing
When:
Sunday, Mar 15, 2026 3:00p -
5:00p
Repeats monthly
Sunday, Mar 15, 2026 3:00p -
5:00p
Repeats monthly
Where:
Bay State Cohousing
368 Pleasant St.
Malden, MA 02148
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Classes, Date Idea, Good for Groups, Rainy Day Ideas
Event website:
https://www.baystatecohousing.net/
Join us for English country dancing! No experience needed. Come to dance, play with our musicians, or just enjoy.
Live music! Friendly folks!
We provide sheet music for musicians.
Donations for our caller welcome, not required.
YOUR TEACHER/CALLER
Cammy Kaynor is leading/calling/teaching our dance.
Cammy has led country dances for nearly 50 years. He has performed all over the United States and Sweden as both a soloist and leader of traditional country dance bands. He began his classical training with noted experts throughout New England, including Bernard Krainis of New York Pro Musica. He has founded many dance series in the Pioneer Valley of western Mass. as well as the Boston area. Many of these dances have acquired national acclaim, such as The Northfield Contradance (Northfield, MA), Monday Night Contradances at the Unitarian Church (Amherst, MA), and English Country Dance Balls.
WHAT IS IT
A country dance is any of a very large number of social dances of a type that originated in England in the British Isles; it is the repeated execution of a predefined sequence of figures, carefully designed to fit a fixed length of music, performed by a group of people, usually in couples, in one or more sets. The figures involve interaction with your partner and/or with other dancers, usually with a progression so that you dance with everyone in your set. It is common in modern times to have a "caller" who teaches the dance and then calls the figures as you dance.
DIRECTIONS
Walk up the driveway, turn right to enter the courtyard and come through the glass doors.
If you drive: Park in the driveway to the left of the entrance (but NOT in the parking lot to the left of the driveway).
Public transportation: Take the T's Orange Line to Malden Center and walk ~five minutes (2/10 of a mile)
