Tom Roby's Past Calling & Teaching Gigs (from May 2003 through July 2012)

Could not keep up with updating this, SORRY!
Date Type Location Caller/Teacher Musicians and Dance Info
Fri. 5/3/03 Balkan Albany: YMCA Tom Roby Recorded music; Teaching Drumul Dracului, Dragaicuta & Staro Oro
Wed. 5/14/03 English Berkeley: GNC Tom Roby David Strong, Shira Kammen, Debra Tayleur
Fri. 5/23/03 Balkan Albany: YMCA Tom Roby Recorded music; Reviwing Drumul Dracului, Dragaicuta & Staro Oro, possibly more

Fri. 8/1/03

English

Palo Alto: MT

Tom Roby

Nonesuch Country Dance Players (Stan & Susan Kramer, Mark Daly, Paul Kostka) with Craig Johnson

Sat. 9/27/03 Adv. English Berkeley: GNC Tom Roby Craig Johnson
Sat. 10/25/03 Adv. English Berkeley: GNC Tom Roby Bill Jensen, Stan & Susan Kramer
Sat. 11/22/03 Adv. English Berkeley: GNC Tom Roby Rebecca King, David Mostardi, Erin Vang
Fri. 2/6/04 Contra Sonoma: FAHA Tom Roby Erin Shrader & Marc Hansen.
Sat. 2/7/04 Contra Monterey: YMCA Tom Roby Alan Roberts (Seattle, WA) and Eric Anderson .
Wed. 2/25/04 English Berkeley: GNC Tom Roby open band led by Laurie Chastain, & Charlie Hancock
Fri. 2/27/04 Contra SF: St. Paul's Tom Roby Erin Shrader, Charlie Hancock, & Chris Knepper
Fri. March 19 -
Sun. 21 March 2004		 Contras, Squares, English, couple, etc. Monte Toyon Lisa Greenleaf, Kathy Anderson, Tom Roby

BACDS Spring Dance Weekend with
Latter-Day Lizards (Mass. - Peter Barnes, Bill Tomczak, and Dave Langford)
Bag o' Tricks (Seattle - Anita Anderson, Dave Bartley, and Sande Gillette)
Ray Bierl, Craig Johnson, Carlo Calabi

Fri. April 2, 2004 Playford Ball Rehearsal San Mateo Masonic Temple Cavalcade of Callers (Sharon Green, Alan Winston, and Tom Roby

BACDS Playford Ball Weekend with
Ruth Anne Fraley, Shira Kammen, & Jim Oakden

Sat. April 3, 2004 BACDS Playford Ball Greek Orthodox Cathedral Tom Roby

BACDS Playford Ball with
Flashpoint Plus (Rebecca King, Jon Berger, and Howard Booster, w/ Erin Vang)

Wed. 4/14/04 English Berkeley: GNC Tom Roby Avis Minger, Michael Siemon, & Debra Tayleur,

Fri. 4/16/04

English

Palo Alto: MT

Tom Roby

Nonesuch Country Dance Players (Stan & Susan Kramer, Mark Daly, Paul Kostka) with Elia Van Tuyl

Sat. 24 April 2004 Romanian Revisited NEFFA Festival (Natick, MA) Tom Roby Tom Pixton (Revisit Romanian line and couple dances that have undeservedly fallen out of balkan folkdance repertoire. Expedient teaching for maximal dancing.)
Wed. August 25, 2004 English Boston (Medford), MA: SpringStep Tom Roby Dave Langford & Jacqueline Schwab
Wed. 9/22/04 English Berkeley: GNC Tom Roby open band led by Midnight Smorgasbord (Jon Berger, Erin Vang, Noel Cragg)
Sat. 10/9/04 English SF: Bethany Tom Roby Stan & Susan Kramer, Debra Tayleur
Sat. 10/30/04 Contra Sacramento Tom Roby Swing Farm (Ray Bierl, Charlie Hancock, & Steven Strauss)
Wed. 11/10/04 English Berkeley: GNC Tom Roby David Strong, Danny Carnahan, Noel Cragg
Sun. 29 Nov. 2004 Toronto Netherfield Ball Christ the Saviour Russian Orthodox Cathedral Hall Tom Roby

Green Willow (Catherine Campbell, Stephen Fuller, Vicki Obedkoff)

Sat. 22 January 2005 English Berkeley: GNC Tom Roby Midnight Smorgasbord (Jon Berger, Erin Vang, Noel Cragg)
Wed. 26 January 2005 English Berkeley: GNC Tom Roby Avis Minger, Michael Siemon, & Debra Tayleur
Sat. 12 Feb. 2005 English SF: Bethany Tom Roby Craig Johnson, Stan & Susan Kramer
Sun. 13 Feb. 2005 English Roseville Masonic Temple Tom Roby Quite Carried Away
Wed. 6 April 2005 Boston Centre English Party Boston (Arlington), MA: Park Avenue Congregational Church Tom Roby Bare Necessities (Peter Barnes, Earl Gaddis, Mary Lea, Jacqueline Schwab)
Sat. 9 Apr. 2005 Waltz Better Now New England Folk Festival (Main Hall) Tom Roby

Tom and Barbara Pixton

Wed. 11 May 2005

English

Berkeley: GNC

Tom Roby

Shira Kammen, Susan Worland, Charlie Hancock

Fri. 20 May 2005 Toronto English Dance St. Barnabas Anglican Church Tom Roby

Relative Harmony (Rick Avery, Judy Greenhill, Jonathan Avery, Katie Avery)

Fri. 27 May 2005 Contra SF: St. Paul's Tom Roby The Figments (Ethan Hazzard-Watkins [VT], Anna Patton [VT], Owen Morrison [VA])
Sat. 28 May 2005 Experienced English Berkeley: GNC Tom Roby Charlie Hancock, Susan Worland, and Laurie Chastain
For experienced English Country dancers

Fri. 1 July 2005

English

Palo Alto: MT

Tom Roby

Nonesuch Country Dance Players (Stan & Susan Kramer, Mark Daly, Paul Kostka) with

Sat. 2 July 2005 Contra Monterey: YMCA Tom Roby Stump Tail Dog (Dan Engle & Ray Frank) .

Sat. 5 November 2005

Macedonian

Nomad Festival (New Haven)

Tom Roby

Gogofski Trio: Melinda Fields, David Golber, Henry Goldberg 9:00-10:00 p.m.

Sun. 6 November 2005

Romanian Remembered

Nomad Festival (New Haven)

Tom Roby

Hijaz: Carrie Crompton, Karen Howard, David Schonfeld, Debby Szajnberg 12:00-1:00p.m.

Sun. 6 November 2005

English

Nomad Festival (New Haven)

Tom Roby

Little Audobon Band: Marshall Barron, Phoebe Barron, Grace Feldman, Margaret Ann Martin 3:00-4:00p.m.
Sat. 3 December 2005 Contra New Haven Country Dancers (St. Thomas's Episcopal Church) Tom Roby The Fiddleheads Sponsored by The New Haven Country Dancers
Fri. 24 March 2006 Contra for Private Student Event Yale, New Haven, CT Tom Roby Live music
Sun. 2 April 2006 Contra for Private Student Event Yale, New Haven, CT Tom Roby Live music
Sat. 22 April 2006 Romanian Remembered NEFFA Festival (Natick, MA) Tom Roby Tom Pixton (Revisit Romanian line and couple dances that have undeservedly fallen out of balkan folkdance repertoire. Expedient teaching for maximal dancing.)

Sat. 6 May 2006

English

Amherst Asembly

Tom Roby

Joyce Crouch & lydia ievins

Wed. 26 July 2006 Boston Centre English Party Belmont, MA: First Church in Belmont UU Tom Roby Step Lightly (Joyce Crouch, Ethan Hazzard-Watkins, & Anna Patton)

Sat. 4 November 2006

Zesty English

Nomad Festival (New Haven)

Tom Roby

Hudson Crossing: George Davis, Sue Polansky & Joyce Crouch 4:00-5:00p.m.

Sat. 4 November 2006

Dick Crum Dances

Nomad Festival (New Haven)

Tom Roby

Hijaz: Carrie Crompton, Karen Howard, David Schonfeld, Debby Szajnberg 7:00-8:00p.m.
Sat. 2 December 2006 Contra New Haven Country Dancers (St. Thomas's Church) Tom Roby The Fiddleheads Sponsored by The New Haven Country Dancers

Sat 6 January 2007

English

Amherst Asembly ("Dance Epiphanies")

Tom Roby

Joyce Crouch & lydia ievins

Sat 20 January 2007

English

Amherst, MA (Munson Library)

Tom Roby

Pleasures of the Town (Joyce Crouch & Doug Creighton)

Sat. 3 February 2007 Contra Quiet Corner Contra Dance (Hampton Congregational Church, 256 Maint St (CT Route 97), Hampton CT) Tom Roby Cathy Mason & Craig Edwards
Info: Rich Donovan donovr(AT)yahooDDOTTcom 860 455 1385
Sun. 1 April 2007 Contra for Private Student Event Yale, New Haven, CT Tom Roby Live music
Sat. 21 April 2007 Tricky Dick Dances NEFFA Festival (Mansfield, MA) Tom Roby Tom Pixton (Interesting balkan folk dances taught by the late, great Dick Crum; expedient teaching for maximal dancing.)
Sun. 7 May 2007 Brattleboro Balkan Dance Corner of Main & Grove St. Tom Roby XOPO Teaching easy walkthroughs FMI: rachelleackerman(ATTT)yahoo.com
Sun. 3 June 2007 Brattleboro Balkan Dance Corner of Main & Grove St. Tom Roby XOPO FMI: rachelleackerman(ATTT)yahoo.com
Sun. 26 August 2007 Three-band Balkan Dance Party Montague (MA) Grange Tom Roby (1)XOPO, (2)Trei Arcusi, (3)Brass Band FMI: 413-625-6057, beckyashenden@crocker.com

Sat. 27 October 2007

English

West Kingston ECD

Tom Roby

Ken Allen Sponsored by Courthouse Center for the Arts

Sat. 1 December 2007 Contra Branford (CT) Community House Tom Roby The Fiddleheads Sponsored by New Haven Country Dancers
Sat. 2 February 2008 Contra Quiet Corner Contra Dance (Hampton Congregational Church, 256 Maint St (CT Route 97), Hampton CT) Tom Roby GET REEL!
Info: Rich Donovan donovr(AT)yahooDDOTTcom 860 455 1385
Sun. 24 February 2008 Balkan & English Dance Workshop Masonic Lodge (West Hartford, CT) Tom Roby Recorded music, sponsored by Always on Sunday
Sun. 3 March 2008 Brattleboro Balkan Dance Corner of Main & Grove St. Tom Roby XOPO Teaching easy walkthroughs FMI: rachelleackerman(AT)yahoo.com

Fri. 14 March 2008

Adv. English

Pittsfield Grange

Tom Roby

TBA Sponsored by AACTMAD

Sat. 15 March 2008 Balkan Dance Workshop Gretchen's Barn Tom Roby Recorded music, sponsored by Ann Arbor Folkdancers
Sat. 15 March 2008 Balkan Dance Party Gretchen's Barn Tom Roby Recorded music, sponsored by Ann Arbor Folkdancers
Sat. 16 March 2008 Transylvanian Dance Workshop Gretchen's Barn Tom Roby Recorded music, sponsored by Ann Arbor Folkdancers
Sun. 30 March 2008 Contra for Private Student Event Yale, New Haven, CT Tom Roby Live music
Sun. 6 April 2008 Brattleboro Balkan Dance Corner of Main & Grove St. Tom Roby XOPO Teaching easy walkthroughs FMI: rachelleackerman(ATTT)yahoo.com

Sat. 20 April 2008 (2-5)

English

South Kingstown Land Trust Barn, 17 Matunuck Beach Road, Wakefield, RI

Tom Roby

Jovial Beggars Sponsored by Courthouse Center for the Arts?

Sat. 26 April 2008 (12:30) Vintage Balkan NEFFA Festival (Mansfield, MA) Tom Roby Tom Pixton (Great balkan dances introduced at least 25 years ago. Expedient teaching for maximal dancing.)
Sat. 27 April 2008 (2:00 p.m.) Hungarian Tanchaz NEFFA Festival (Mansfield, MA) Tom Roby Trei Arcusi
Sat. 27 April 2008 Macedonian Dance Party NEFFA Festival (Mansfield, MA) Tom Roby

Gogofski Trio: Melinda Fields, David Golber, Henry Goldberg
Sun. 4 May 2008 Brattleboro Balkan Dance Corner of Main & Grove St. Tom Roby XOPO Teaching easy walkthroughs FMI: rachelleackerman(ATTT)yahoo.com
Wed. 14 May 2008 English Berkeley: GNC Tom Roby Jon Berger, Erik Ievins, Debra Tayleur Sponsored by Bay Area Country Dance Society

Fri. 16 May 2008

English

Palo Alto: MT

Tom Roby

Nonesuch Country Dance Players (Stan & Susan Kramer, Mark Daly, Paul Kostka) with Bill Jensen Sponsored by Bay Area Country Dance Society

Wed. 20 August 2008

English

First Unitarian Society of Newton

Tom Roby

(three-quarters of) Bare Necessities (Peter Barnes, Mary Lea, Jacqueline Schwab) Sponsored by CDS Boston Centre

Sat. 20 September 2008 Contra Branford (CT) Community House Tom Roby The Fiddleheads Sponsored by New Haven Country Dancers
Sat. 7 February 2009 Contra Quiet Corner Contra Dance (Hampton Congregational Church, 256 Maint St (CT Route 97), Hampton CT) Tom Roby Matching Orange
Info: Susan Kirsch cauldron1951((AT))gmail, 860-933-3586
Sun. 29 March 2009 Contra for Private Student Event Yale, New Haven, CT Tom Roby Live music
Sat. 11 April 2009 Contra Hartford Community Dance at American Legion Post (Wethersfield, CT) Tom Roby WYSIWYG Sponsored by Hartford Community Dance
Sat. 18 April 2009 Balkan Dance Church of Our Savior (Arlington, MA) Tom Roby Recorded music, sponsored by Tuesday Night Revival
Sun 26 April 2009 (2:00 p.m.) East Hungarian Line Dances NEFFA Festival (Mansfield, MA) Tom Roby Csango Bazonga! with Marjorie Nugent & Clare Stanley
Fri-Sun 1-3 May 2009 English Cascadia English Dance Weekend (Seattle, WA) Tom Roby Anita Anderson coordinating a cast of dozens of Seattle's top musical talent

Wed. 19 August 2009

English

First Unitarian Society of Newton (MA)

Tom Roby

Mary Lea, Eden MacAdam-Somer, Jacqueline Schwab Sponsored by CDS Boston Centre

Sat. 19 September 2009 Contra Branford (CT) Community House Tom Roby The Fiddleheads Sponsored by New Haven Country Dancers
Sun. 18 October 2009 International Folk Dance Party (for Marilyn Richards) MIT, Student Center Lobdell Dining Hall) (MA) Tom Roby Live music by Shining Moon and Rakiya, sponsored by MIT Folk Dance Club
Sat. 24 October 2009 (aft.) Contra for Private Wedding Storrs, CT Tom Roby Live music
Sun. 25 October 2009 Balkan & English Dance Workshop Masonic Lodge (West Hartford, CT) Tom Roby Recorded music, sponsored by Always on Sunday
Sat. 14 November 2009 Contra for Private Wedding CT Tom Roby Live music
Sat. 12 December 2009 Contra Hartford Community Dance at American Legion Post (Wethersfield, CT) Tom Roby White Squall (Andrew Grover, Ned Quist, Alice Pace) Sponsored by Hartford Community Dance
Sat. 6 February 2010 Contra Quiet Corner Contra Dance (Hampton Congregational Church, 256 Maint St (CT Route 97), Hampton CT) Tom Roby Clutch Gandhis (Ellen Cohn, Colin Healy, Gary Wikfors)
Sat. 19 Februrary 2010 Experienced Balkan Dance Tuesday Night (MIT) Revival Tom Roby Teaching Muzko Trojno & Dansul Fetelor de la Crihalma 7-8. Dance party to recorded music 8-11.
Fri. March 19 -
Sun. 21 March 2010		 Contras, Squares, English, couple, etc. Monte Toyon (Aptos, CA) Seth Tepfer,
James Hutson,
and Tom Roby

BACDS Spring Dance Weekend with
The Syncopaths(LA--Ryan McKasson, Jeffery Spero, Christa Burch)
Waverley Station(DC area-- Liz Donaldson, David Knight)
Kevin Carr, Jim Oaken, & Rebecca King

Sun. 11 April 2010 Contra for Private Student Event Yale, New Haven, CT Tom Roby Live music

Sat. 24 April 2010, 10:00a.m.

Historical English Gems

NEFFA Festival (Mansfield, MA)

 Tom Roby

Tea with Scream (Helene Zisook-Speer, Adlai Waksman, Jim Speer, Peggy Leiby, Steve Epstein)

Sat. 24 April 2010 (2:00p.m.) Vintage Balkan NEFFA Festival (Mansfield, MA) Tom Roby Tom Pixton Great balkan dances introduced at least 25 years ago. Expedient teaching for maximal dancing.

Sun 23 May 2010

Mostly Waltz for Boston

Springstep, 98 George P. Hassett DR, Medford, MA

Tom Roby

Mary Lea & Peter Barnes Teaching figures from Richard Powers's choreography Metamora

Sun. 14 November 2010

Gammaldans (and Mostly Waltz)

PACC

Tom Roby

John Chambers and Friends Sponsored by

Sat. 4 December 2010 (7:30)

English

South Kingstown Land Trust Barn, 17 Matunuck Beach Road, Wakefield, RI

Tom Roby

Ken Allen Sponsored by Kingston English Country Dance

Sat. 23 April 2011 (10:00--11:15a.m.) Intro to Waltz NEFFA Festival (Mansfield, MA) Tom Roby Tom Pixton A careful introduction waltz basics, with extra practice time (goes until 11:15 a.m.) to wonderful live music.
Sat. 24 April 2011 (2:00p.m.) Vintage Balkan NEFFA Festival (Mansfield, MA) Tom Roby Tom Pixton Great balkan dances introduced at least 25 years ago. Expedient teaching for maximal dancing.
Sun. 10 April 2011 Contra for Private Student Event Yale, New Haven, CT Tom Roby Live music
Sat. 7 May 2011 Experienced Balkan Dance Tuesday Night (MIT) Revival Tom Roby Teaching (7-8) & Programming dances championed by Chris Walker. Dance party to recorded music 8-11.

Wed. 13 July 2011

English

First Unitarian Society of Newton (MA)

Tom Roby

Nora Smith, Cathy Campbell, Jean Monroe Sponsored by CDS Boston Centre

Sat. 9 July 2011 Experienced Balkan Dance Tuesday Night (MIT) Revival Tom Roby Early Teaching (7-8): Dances from Yves's Red Album. Followed by dance party to recorded music 8-11.
Wed. 27 July 2011 English Berkeley: GNC Tom Roby Shira Kammen, Michelle Levy, Charlie Hancock Sponsored by Bay Area Country Dance Society
Sat. 10 September 2011 Experienced Balkan Dance Tuesday Night (MIT) Revival Tom Roby Early Teaching (7-8) followed by dance party to recorded music 8-11.
Sat. 22 October 2011 Experienced Balkan Dance Tuesday Night (MIT) Revival Tom Roby Early Teaching (7-8) followed by dance party to recorded music 8-11.

Sun 23 October 2011

Mostly Waltz for Boston

Springstep, 98 George P. Hassett DR, Medford, MA

Diane Gonzales & Tom Roby

Jacqueline Schwab Teaching Spins, Turns, & Twirls
Wed. 26 October 2011 Balkan Dance Workshop Edwards Church, UCC Tom Roby 7:30-10:00, recorded music, sponsored by Framingham International Folk Dancers

Fri. 28 October 2011

English

Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church

Tom Roby

Open Band led by Mary Lea Sponsored by CDS Boston Centre
Thu. 3 November 2011 Experienced International Folk Dance Folk Arts Center of New England Tom Roby Teaching mixed with request dancing to recorded music 8-10:45.
Fri. 4 November 2011 Experienced Balkan Dance Tuesday Night (MIT) Revival Tom Roby Early Teaching (7-8) followed by dance party to recorded music 8-11.
Sat. 19 November 2011 Experienced Balkan Dance Tuesday Night (MIT) Revival Tom Roby Early Teaching (7-8) followed by dance party to recorded music 8-11.

Sun 27 November 2011

Mostly Waltz for Boston

Springstep, 98 George P. Hassett DR, Medford, MA

Diane Gonzales & Tom Roby

Mary Lea & Peter Barnes Teaching Cross-step Waltz

Fri. 2 December 2011 Experienced Balkan Dance Tuesday Night (MIT) Revival Tom Roby Early Teaching (7-8) followed by dance party to recorded music 8-11.
Sat. 21 January 2012 Experienced Balkan Dance Tuesday Night (MIT) Revival Tom Roby Early Teaching (7-8) followed by dance party to recorded music 8-11.

Sat. 12 February 2012 3-6p.m.

English

South Kingstown Land Trust Barn, 17 Matunuck Beach Road, Wakefield, RI

Tom Roby

Paradise Bird (Jonathan Gilbert, Jean Monroe, Marc Vilain) Sponsored by Kingston English Country Dance

Sun 4 March 2012

Mostly Waltz for Boston

Springstep, 98 George P. Hassett DR, Medford, MA

Diane Gonzales & Tom Roby

Gypsy Minor (Sarah Jane Nelson & Tom Moreau) Teaching Rotary Waltz

Sun 25 March 2012

Mostly Waltz for Boston

Springstep, 98 George P. Hassett DR, Medford, MA

Gina Sonne (VT) [TR away]

Larry Unger, Julie Metcalf, Bruce Rosen Leading & Following
Sun. 15 April 2012 Contra for Private Student Event Yale, New Haven, CT Tom Roby Live music
Sat. 21 April 2012 (10:00--11:15a.m.) Intro to Waltz NEFFA Festival (Mansfield, MA) Tom Roby Tom Pixton A careful introduction waltz basics, with extra practice time (goes until 11:15 a.m.) to wonderful live music.

Sat. 21 April 2012, 7:30p.m.

Historical English Gems

NEFFA Festival (Mansfield, MA)

 Tom Roby

Northeast Extension (Josh Burdick, Carol Compton, Jonathan Gilbert, Susie Lorand)

Sun 29 April 2012

Mostly Waltz for Boston

Springstep, 98 George P. Hassett DR, Medford, MA

Diane Gonzales & Tom Roby

Barbara Pixton & Robert Penny More fun Cross-step moves

Sun 20 May 2012

Mostly Waltz for Boston

Springstep, 98 George P. Hassett DR, Medford, MA

Diane Gonzales & Tom Roby

Special fundraiser with alternative music Pivots, Schottis, & Waltz
Sun. 20 March 2012 International Folk Dance Party MIT, Student Center Sala de Puerto Rico Tom Roby Sunday Night Revival! Sponsored by MIT Folk Dance Club.

Wed. 11 July 2012

English

First Unitarian Society of Newton (MA)

Tom Roby

TBD Sponsored by CDS Boston Centre

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