Free Manning Mud Stompers Family Dance w/ Live Old-Time Music (Berkeley)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

This event is similar to a square dance, but easier to do. Fun for kids and parents!

All dances will be taught and called by caller Janine Smith. Live music by Manning Mud Stompers (an old-time band made up of young people).

FREE

Fun for the whole family, with dances that even babes in arms can do!

The Manning Mud Stompers are a big group of exceptional young musicians: Daisy Caire, Natalie Caton, Nikolai Davis, Helen Feeney, Jesse Fichman, Iola Gravois, Clio Levy-Tongate, Jasper Manning, Jayna Manning, Bodie Oakley, and Noah Steele are all students (or former students) at Berkeley’s Manning Music.

The Janine Smith experience is what you get when you cross a howdy-ma’am-BBQ-and-beans Honky Tonk with Zoom dancing and sprinkle on some twinkly lights for sass. She loves calling FUN dances, squares, circles, longways sets, heck maybe a couple of Singing Squares, too. Her teaching is clear and to-the-point, though she has been known to goof around a bit. She’s one of the “Hot Square Babes,” a quintet of female callers who threw a monthly Square Dance Party in the DC area from 2004-2018, a founding member of the DC Square Dance Collective (2011), and an organizer of the DC/Baltimore area annual Dare to Be Square Weekend.

This event is part of the Berkeley Old TIme Music Convention, happening at various venues from Tuesday, September 15th through Sunday, September 20th. https://www.berkeleyoldtimemusic.org

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.