OLD-TIME MUSIC & DANCE HALL

A Festival of Bluegrass & Old-Time Music & Dance
March 5-7, 2010, Radisson Hotel & Conference Center, Plymouth MN

The Winter Bluegrass Weekend is a festival of bluegrass and old-time music and dance. The Old-Time Music & Dance Hall is always a busy place with square dances, Cajun dances, honky tonk, the ever popular waltz hour, clogging and more on Friday from 7PM to 11PM and on Saturday from 11AM to 11PM. It is the largest of the three stage venues at the Winter Bluegrass Weekend, and much of it is dance floor. Many of the dances are taught and called by professional callers, and there are dance instruction workshops too.

The featured group in 2010 will be The Macrae Sisters from North Carolina. They will be providing a number of workshops on Saturday early afternoon, a concert late afternoon, and music for a dance on Saturday night.

Old-Time Music & Dance Hall (Downstairs)

Friday
8:00 Old-Time Dance with Pig’s Eye Landing, The Lulu Gals, and dance caller Robin Nelson
10:00 Honky Tonk Dance with Honky Tonk John

Saturday
10:00  The MN Fiddlers Assoc presents an intermediate jam & accompaniment workshop (for fiddle and guitar) with John Wallace & Gilmore Lee
12:00  The Wild Goose Chase Cloggers
1:00 Workshop
2:00 Workshop
3:00 Family Dance with dance caller Ann Carter
4:00-5:30 Old-Time Concert with The Macrae Sisters
6:00 Temporary Stringband
6:45 Minnesota Blue
8:00-10:00 Square Dance with The Macrae Sisters & dance caller TBA

Sunday
8:30 Non Denominational Church Service with TBA
9:45-12:00 Gospel Show
MC:
9:45 Incredible Banjos
10:30  Sherrie Minnick & Jackson Buxton
11:15  Blessings Gospel Trio 
12:00-2:00 Swap Meet (Dance Hall Entry Area)
12:00-1:30 Grass Seeds Academy Recital & Faculty Concert with The Whistlepigs
1:30-3:30 Spotlight On “Passing It On”
3:30 Raffle Drawing
3:45 MN Mandolin Orchestra

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