Nuts and Bolts
The Belfast Flying Shoes Dance Series
on the First Friday of every month
at the Frank D. Hazeltine American Legion Post 43
143 Church Street in downtown Belfast, ME
The Legion Hall is a large white building, not far from the Colonial Theater. You'll find the Legion across from Duval's Garage on Church St, across from the Waldo County Courthouse on Market Street, and across from McLeod's Furniture on High Street.
Community Dance 6:30 pm
Chrissy Fowler calling with the All-Comers Band
Tasty Treat Potluck 7:30 pm
Savory or sweet, share an after dinner treat!
Contra Dance 8:00 pm
Guest callers and musicians
Contact
Chrissy Fowler, booking coordinator (207) 338-0979, (603) 498-3506,
ktaadn_me@hotmail.com
Annadeene Konesni, publicity coordinator belfastflyingshoes@gmail.com
Bios
Chrissy Fowler
Once upon a time, Chrissy Fowler thought that contra dancing was a strange
phenomenon in which the citizens of Blue Hill, Maine got as dizzy as they
could weaving to and fro while listening to her cousin George play fiery
Irish fiddle tunes. (This is, of course, all true.) And now, this strange
phenomenon is an essential part of Chrissy's life - as a dancer, caller,
organizer and cheerleader. She has danced in several states, including the
state of suspension (in pond water) and the persistent state of euphoria.
Chrissy has even written a sermon on dance as spiritual practice, which she
can elaborate on at length if you will let her. But really, you should be
dancing instead.
Annadeene K. Fowler
Annadeene started contradancing in 1997, and was quickly enraptured with the mix of movement, rhythm, music, touch and community. Since then Annadeene has added contradance to her list of passions.
Now Annadeene has danced in 13 states and 1 US Virgin Island. She once tried to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for contradancing the most consecutive days in a row: her record is 9.
Closely related to dance, is another of Annadeene's passions, Art. She graduated form the Museum School of Fine Art, Boston, and is now making her living as a mixed media artist. She frequently dances while she paints. Her work can be found at Aarhus Gallery, and on her website Annadeene.com
Tom Fowler
Tom Fowler was dragged to his first contradance by Chrissy sometime in the 1990's. He didn't go to another for five years. Luckily, since then he's gone much more than once every five years. He lives in Belfast with Annadeene and Louis and is proud to play a 1917 Gibson A1 Mandolin. When not seen at Belfast Flying Shoes, Tom can be found wrestling wild boar (cianghale) in central Italy.
Phyllis Buchanan
Phyllis has been playing the same fiddle since she was 12 years old. She and the fiddle have mellowed well together, especially since she started playing for dances a few years ago. She also plays the cello and is working towards becoming a dynamic rhythm bluegrass cellist. One of her missions in life is to celebrate joyful chaos, which is a fitting ambition for one of the leaders of the Community Band. She is the kind of person who does not mind posing with fruits and vegetables.
WERU Radio Special
The Belfast Flying Shoes was featured on "Voices"(March 6, 2007) on WERU, produced and hosted by Amy Browne. WERU DJ, John McVeigh was on location at the American Legion Hall in Belfast to produce the segment. For other archived WERU public affairs programs, visit the WERU archives.