PORT ANGELES — La Famille Leger, a dance-driving foursome, plus caller Kathy Anderson will put people’s feet to moving — whatever their levels of experience — at another contra dance at the Black Diamond Community Hall this Saturday night.
The party starts with a beginners’ workshop at 7:30 p.m.; then the band steps up to play from 8 p.m. till around 11 p.m.
Admission is a suggested $8 donation, or $4 for those 17 and younger.
Dancers of all ages — singles, couples, families — are welcome at the hall, 1942 Black Diamond Road.
No partners nor previous experience is needed at this dance, since all of the steps are taught and prompted and everybody dances in lines with everyone else.
Anderson, a dance caller for a good three and a half decades, is known for a “high fun factor,” according to the organizers of Saturday’s dance.
Meantime the Legers play the dancing music of French Canada, tunes enjoyed on back porches and at kitchen parties.
They’re a proudly old-school family band, says fiddler Devon Leger: patriarch Louis Leger leads on the one-row melodeon, a type of button accordion; Devon’s mother Barbara plays guitar and his wife Dejah is the pianist.
For more details about contra dancing and this monthly get-together, visit www.BlackDiamondDance.org or phone 360-457-5667.