Details
Casey Carr will be calling to music of our special guests Tim Ball and Max Newman.
Tim Ball has been providing excellent music for dancing over the years with a variety of bands including Tunescape and Tempest. He’s joined this week by Max Newman, known for his great guitar work, again for many bands, most recently with the super group, Stringrays. Both are multi-instrumentalists and passionate about a great dance experience.
Caller
Casey Carr
Acclaimed caller/teacher Casey Carr is skilled at making new dancers of all ages feel comfortable while keeping experienced dancers on their toes. She has a collection of fascinating grid squares that she pulls out for larger events.
Bands
Tim Ball
Tim Ball (fiddle)
Tim Ball has been on the contra music scene for over 15 years. As a performer, he tours throughout the northeast with his Celtic trio Arise & Go, contra dance bands Center Street and Tempest, and has played with Renaissance festival bands Empty Hats and Cantiga. Tim leads the Ithaca Irish Session. He has performed and taught at Ashokan and Pinewoods, teaches regularly at the Ithaca Suzuki Institute and the Kanack School of Music fiddle camp, and maintains a private fiddle/violin studio in Ithaca, New York.
Max Newman
Max Newmann (guitar, piano)
Max Newman has spent a good portion of his life playing dances great and small across the continent. In addition to collaborating with a vast array of other musicians, he is a member of Stringrays, a supergroup of New England contra dance music.
His guitar playing is refreshing, fun, and creative, and has allowed him to collaborate with a great variety of traditional musicians. In Stringrays, he often alternates between hammering down rhythms and trading licks with band mate Rodney Miller. His attention to detail with pairing music and dance is almost as well known as his love for a fresh cup of coffee. His playing has been profiled in Flatpicking Guitar Magazine.