World Music & Dance Institute

Sound calendar 2023

1/15: Djangolaya, Waltztime

1/20: Sugar Beat, Friday Night Dancers

1/27-29: Dam Beavers, Gaslight Tinkers Florida Snowball

2/3: Kolodner Beller Quartet, Friday Night Dancers

2/4: Jazz Quartet at Mr. Henrys, Capitol Hill

2/5: Devine Comedy, Waltztime

2/10-12: Gigmeisters, Playing with Fyre: Cabin Fever, Knoxville, TN

2/17: Rambling House, Friday Night Dancers

2/19: Valse Impressions, Waltztime

3/1: Lyuti Chushki, Baba Marta Celebration, Glen Echo Folk Dancers

3/4: Dawn Til Dusk, Washington Estonian Society

3/5: Daybreak Trio, Waltztime

3/10: Glen Echo Open Band, Friday Night Dancers

3/11 Monobloco (Brazil), EducArte, Glen Echo Park

3/12: Family Dance, FSGW, Glen Echo Park

3/18: Battle of the Bands: The Natty Beaux vs. Rock-a-Sonics, Gotta Swing, Glen Echo

3/19: Mu Nu Talent Hunt Competition

3/31: Pilzer/Weiss, Friday Night Dancers

4/1: Private event, Melwood

4/1: Bitter Dose Combo, New Columbia Swing, Glen Echo 

4/2: Waverly Station, WaltzTime

4/7: Dead Sea Squirrels, Friday Night Dancers

4/8: Wedding Vendor exhibition, GEPPAC

4/15: Eric Felten Jazz Orchestra, private event.

4/16: Djangolaya, WaltzTime

4/16: Washington Revels concert, Glen Echo

4/18: School musical setup, St. Mary’s Catholic Church

4/21: Faux Paws, Friday Night Dance, Glen Echo

4/28: Friedman, Barthine, O’Brien, Friday Night Dance, Glen Echo

4/29: Carousel Day, Glen Echo Park

4/29: Olde Vienna, Strauss Ball, Glen Echo

4/30: Handspring, Dancing Planet Contra

5/5: Private event, Glen Echo Park

5/6: English Ball, FSGW

5/11: Private event, American Friends of Georgia

5/12: Glen Echo Open Band, Friday Night Dance

5/21: Wyndream, Waltztime, Glen Echo

5/27-29: Trifle English Dance Weekend, Camp Louise

6/2: Are We There Yet?: Friday Night Dance, Glen Echo

6/3-4: Washington Folk Festival

6/6-15: NA

6/16: TBA: Friday Night Dance, Glen Echo

6/17: Private event, Melwood

6/17: Girls from Mars, Gottaswing, Glen Echo

6/18: Sugar Beat, Waltztime

6/20: private event

6/23-25: Gigmeisters, Critton Hollow, Larry Unger and friends, American Buffalo Weekend, Buffalo Gap Camp

6/29: Ruthie and the Wranglers, GEPPAC

7/6: King Street Bluegrass, GEPPAC

7/7: Petrichord, Friday Night Dance

7/9: Taylor Among the Devils, Waltztime 

7/13: Dixie Power Trio, GEPPAC

7/14-16: Hot Coffee Meltdown, Playing with Fyre, River Rendezvous, Coshocton, OH

7/23: Karen Collins and Backroads Band, Waltztime

7/28: Box and Strings, Friday Night Dancers

7/30: Gaye Fifer with Dave Wiesler and Miranda Weinberg, Dancing Planet Contra

8/3: Pablo Regis de Oliveira, GEPPAC

8/5: Batida Diferente, Mr. Henry’s, DC

8/10: Oasis Island Sounds, GEPPAC

8/11: Contranella, Friday Night Dancers

8/17: Hula Monsters, GEPPAC

8/24: private event

8/25: TBA, Friday Night Dancers, Some Assembly

9/2-3: GEPPAC Labor Day Festival

9/10: Family Dance, Glen Echo Park, FSGW

9/16: Private event

9/17: Larry Unger and Caroline McCaskey, Waltztime

9/17: Larry Unger and Caroline McCaskey, Dancing Planet Contra

9/22-24: Faux Paws, Playing with Fyre, Feet Retreat, NC

9/29: Daybreak Trio, Friday Night Dancers

10/1: Glen Echo Arts Fest

10/6: Last Chance Saloon Band, Friday Night Dancers

10/7: Batida Diferente, Mr. Henry’s DC

10/8: Democratic Womens Club of Montgomery Council, Glen Echo Park

10/8: Family Dance, FSGW

10/15: ContraStock, FSGW

10/20: Handspring, Friday Night Dancers

10/21: Art Deco Society of Washington, Glen Echo Park

10/21: Con Brio, Fall Ball, Ballroom Dance, Glen Echo Park

10/22: Gigmeisters, Dancing Planet Contra

10/27: Gigmeisters, Friday Night Dancers

10/29: Djangolaya, Waltztime

11/3: BOW, Friday Night Dancers

11/18: Private event, Glen Echo Park

11/19: Callithump, Waltztime

11/24: Gyrations, Friday Night Dancers

12/1-3: Hot Coffee Breakdown and Rosenthorn, Winter Warmup, Worthington, OH

12/8: special event, Melwood

12/10: Go Figure, Ballroom Dance

12/17: Celtic Christmas Concert, St. Andrew’s Church, Burke, VA

12/19: Celtic Christmas Concert, Church of Ascencion, Silver Spring, MD

12/26-12/31: Christmas Country Dance School, Berea, KY

2024

1/14: Wiesler, Weinberg, and Rose with Gaye Fifer, Dancing Planet Contra

1/26-28: Nova, Kingfisher, Janine Smith and Will Mentor, Florida Snowball, Gulfport

2/2: Rachel Eddy and friends, Friday Night Dance

2/9-11: Baba Yaga’s Brew, Hot Coffee Breakdown, Tim Klein, Cabin Fever, Oakridge, TN

2/16: Aubrey and Pilzer, Friday Night Dance

2/23: Kingfisher, Friday Night Dance

2/25: TBA Dancing Planet Contra

3/22: Dead Sea Squirrels, Friday Night Dance

3/24: TBA, Dancing Planet Contra

3/29: Are We There Yet? Friday Night Dance

4/19: Froghammer, Friday Night Dance

4/27: Carousel Day, GEPPAC

4/27: Strauss Ball, Waltztime

4/28: Dancing Planet Contra

5/5: Balkan Festival, Glen Echo Park

5/12: Djangolaya, Ballroom Dance

5/25-27: Trifle English Dance Weekend

6/1-2: Washington Folk Festival, FSGW

6/16: Dancing Planet Contra

6/23: Machaya, private event

7/4-7: Latter Day Lizards, Toss the Possum, Roanoke Railroader, Roanoke, VA

7/28: Dancing Planet Contra: Playing with Fyre

8/25: Dancing Planet Contra

9/15: Dancing Planet Contra

9/20-22: Dam Beavers, Hotpoint, Bob Isaacs, Emily Rush, Feet Retreat, NC

10/13: Private event

10/20: Contrastock

10/27: Dancing Planet Contra

11/24: Dancing Planet Contra