djs Waltz and polka music from 9pm to midnight.

Tom Hill teaches an introductory waltz class from 7 to 9 pm in the downstairs room. To get the most from this class, try to start at 7pm. Excellent first time class

$12 for both the classes and the dance. $8 dance only. No partner necessary. All Ages. Casual comfortable attire. Under 18 must be accompanied by parent or guardian.

First United Methodist Church, 625 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, CA. Upstairs, Fellowship hall, entrance on right of courtyard, facing away from street.

Crepes Musette is back! Rave reveiws from each of their appearances at Friday (Saturday) Night Waltz. Waltz and polka music from 9 to 12 midnight. Sylvia Herrold, Charlie Hancock, Shira Kamen, Chuck Ervin.

Crepes Musette played waltzes, polkas, tangos, and swing in Oakland Veterans Hall on December 22 and May 24. What a great evening! Some comments "/Best night dancing ever" "Their Congress of Vienna puts them in a class by themselves" "Where can I buy their cd" (This is only the second time they have played together!) "I loved the dance-singalong to Edelweiss" "They played 'Its a small world' which was great but now I can't get it out of my head!"/ "/excellent!"/ "/..played very tight, not one missed note" "when are they coming back?""great great great" /and many more positive comments.

Sylvia Herrold uses her crystal-clear voice and impressive guitar skills to draw on the diverse traditions of swing, jazz, and traditional folk and Celtic music. Her extensive musical scholarship and earthy, nostalgic interpretations span a variety of musical styles and have earned her critical acclaim over a successful music career spanning 25 years. Herold is known as a singer of folk songs as well as a swing chanteuse and guitarist.

For sixteen years Herold toured and recorded with popular Bay Area swing trio CATS & JAMMERS. The Cats enjoyed a full schedule of festivals and concerts including multiple ppearances at Strawberry Music Festival. Herold was a five-year member of the Django Reinhardt-inspired HOT CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO, appearing at the Jazz at Filoli Concert Series and the San Francisco Jazz Festival. Herold currently performs with WAKE THE DEAD, a band that melds traditional Celtic music with songs of the Grateful Dead. Their concert list includes the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, KMVR Celtic Festival and the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco.

In 2005 Herold released her third solo CD, Lovely Nancy, with the newly formed, café-style combo EUPHONIA. In addition to Herold on guitar and vocals, the high-energy collection of traditional folk songs features Paul Kotapish (Wake The Dead) on mandolin, Charlie Hancock on accordion and piano, and Brian Rice (Wake the Dead) on percussion. Chuck Ervin joins the group on double bass and vocals.

Charlie Hancock is a well known and long time Contra and English country dance musician, has been in many bands: ContraBandits,Raggedy Annes, Euphonia,Swing Farm.

Tom Hill teaches an introductory waltz class from 7 to 9 pm in the downstairs room. To get the most from this class, try to start at 7pm. Excellent first time class

Oakland Veterans Hall, 200 Grand Avenue Oakland CA X Harrison .A beautiful dance hall, with 3,500 square foot hardwood floor, extra room for socializing and meeting new people, easy access, great parking.$15 for both the classes and the dance. $10 for students. Sorry, due to live band no separate price for dance only. No partner necessary. All Ages. Casual comfortable attire. Under 18 must be accompanied by parent or guardian.

djs Waltz and polka music from 9pm to midnight.

Tom Hill teaches an introductory waltz class from 7 to 9 pm in the downstairs room. To get the most from this class, try to start at 7pm. Excellent first time class

$12 for both the classes and the dance. $8 dance only. No partner necessary. All Ages. Casual comfortable attire. Under 18 must be accompanied by parent or guardian.

First United Methodist Church, 625 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, CA. Upstairs, Fellowship hall, entrance on right of courtyard, facing away from street.

Tonight: introductory and intermediate salsa classes from 7 to 9. dj dancing 9 to 1. Every Tuesday.

Announcing LatinMX. starting Tuesdays starting Sep 23. Weekly dances and classes in all kinds of Latin dancing, including salsa, samba, merengue, cha cha, as well as lesser known dances like rueda, mambo,cumba, bachata,paso doble, zouk, and lambada. Latin dance mixers, latin line dances, birthday jams, and introducing a flirtatious rumba, "The Havana". 2 hours of introductory and intermediate classes from 7 to 9, and dj latin dancing from 9 to 11. at First United Methodist Church more information

Brassworks is back for another wonderful night of waltzes, polkas and some latin, swing and tango. Brassworks is the nations premier vintage dance band. They have played at Gaskells ball for 25 years. We will emphasize Strauss waltzes and polkas tonight.

casual attire. $13 general, $8 students.. Under 18 must be accompanied by parent or guardian.

Oakland Veterans Hall, 200 Grand Avenue Oakland CA X Harrison .A beautiful dance hall, with 3,500 square foot hardwood floor, extra room for socializing and meeting new people, easy access, great parking.

Richard Powers teaches intermediate dance classes from 7 to 9, and djs Waltz and polka music from 9pm to midnight.

Tom Hill teaches an introductory waltz class from 7 to 9 pm in the downstairs room. To get the most from this class, try to start at 7pm. Excellent first time class

$12 for both the classes and the dance. $8 dance only. No partner necessary. All Ages. Casual comfortable attire. Under 18 must be accompanied by parent or guardian.

First United Methodist Church, 625 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, CA. Upstairs, Fellowship hall, entrance on right of courtyard, facing away from street.

Dj waltz and polka from 9 to 12 midnight.

Intermediate Waltz class from 7 to 9 pm.

Tom Hill teaches an introductory waltz class from 7 to 9 pm in the downstairs room. To get the most from this class, try to start at 7pm. Excellent first time class

Oakland Veterans Hall, 200 Grand Avenue Oakland CA X Harrison .A beautiful dance hall, with 3,500 square foot hardwood floor, extra room for socializing and meeting new people, easy access, great parking. $12 for both the classes and the dance. $8 dance only or students. No partner necessary. All Ages. Casual comfortable attire

Richard Powers teaches intermediate dance classes from 7 to 9, and djs Waltz and polka music from 9pm to midnight.

Tom Hill teaches an introductory waltz class from 7 to 9 pm in the downstairs room. To get the most from this class, try to start at 7pm. Excellent first time class

$12 for both the classes and the dance. $8 dance only. No partner necessary. All Ages. Casual comfortable attire. Under 18 must be accompanied by parent or guardian.

First United Methodist Church, 625 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, CA. Upstairs, Fellowship hall, entrance on right of courtyard, facing away from street.

No Dance tonight- go to Gaskells!

djs Waltz and polka music from 9pm to midnight.

Tom Hill teaches an introductory waltz class from 7 to 9 pm in the downstairs room. To get the most from this class, try to start at 7pm. Excellent first time class

$12 for both the classes and the dance. $8 dance only. No partner necessary. All Ages. Casual comfortable attire. Under 18 must be accompanied by parent or guardian.

First United Methodist Church, 625 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, CA. Upstairs, Fellowship hall, entrance on right of courtyard, facing away from street.

Tom Rigney is back! Over 200 attended last time Tom played his ethereral waltzes. Many people again asked to have Tom and Flambeau back. Zydeco, waltz and polka from 9 to 12 midnight.

Tonight a very unusual dance - Live music
with Tom Rigney and Flambeau. They have the sweetest, most uplifting waltzes you have ever heard. Tom performed for Friday Night Waltz last April. We got absolutely rave reviews, and many demands for a return. About 40% of the dances will be waltzes, about 20% will be zydeco/cajun, with the balance from Swing and Latin, along with our usual djed Congress of Vienna and Bohemian National Polka. Tom from 9 to 12 midnight.

*Tom Rigney*, the fiery, electrifying violinist/composer, joins forces with some of the finest musicians on the San Francisco roots music scene to form* Tom Rigney and Flambeau*, a band that will tear the roof off of anyplace that has one and raise the spirits of everyone around. Rigney, after fifteen years at the helm of The Sundogs, has stepped out into the spotlight with a vengeance. Flambeau showcases his passionate, virtuoso fiddling, his commanding stage presence, his range, depth, and originality as a composer, and of course, those notorious red boots. His bandmates are veterans of the great bands of Charles Brown, Queen Ida, Roy Rogers, Clifton Chenier, and others, and together they generate enough heat and energy to ignite a dance floor or lift an audience to its feet.

"Flambeau specializes in fiery Cajun and zydeco two-steps, low-down blues, funky New Orleans grooves, and heartbreakingly beautiful ballads and waltzes. Most of the repertoire is composed by Rigney, but they also mix in a few classics from the Cajun/zydeco/New Orleans songbook. And if, along the way, you pick up a trace of Rigney’s Irish roots or a little Swing and roots Rock and Roll, it just makes the musical gumbo that much tastier. In the past few year’s Rigney’s skills as a composer have broadened and deepened, and he is today writing some
of the most evocative and uplifting music you will hear anywhere. And Rigney’s charismatic stage presence and high-energy delivery draw the audience into his performances and make them feel that they are an integral part of the music and the show"

Dana DeSimone teaches a two hour class in Zydeco and Zydeco waltz from 7 to 9pm. Dana along with "Louisians Sue" produce the long running Alameda Elks Friday Night Dance for the last 15 years. It is the largest Zydeco dance outside of Louisiana.

Zydeco originated in the call and response vocal music of the multiracial French speaking Creoles of south and southwest Louisiana

Usually fast-tempo, and dominated by the button or piano accordion and a form of a washboard known as a rub-board or frottoir, zydeco music was originally created at house dances where the people of south Louisiana would gather for socializing.

As the Creoles further established their communities and worshiped separately as well, the music moved to the Catholic church community center and then later to the rural dance halls and nightclubs. As a result, the music integrated waltzes, shuffles, two-steps , blues , rock and roll , and most dance music forms of the era. Zydeco is one of the easiest and simplest of dances to learn.

Tom Hill teaches an introductory waltz class from 7 to 9 pm in the downstairs room. To get the most from this class, try to start at 7pm. Excellent first time class

Oakland Veterans Hall, 200 Grand Avenue Oakland CA X Harrison .A beautiful dance hall, with 3,500 square foot hardwood floor, extra room for socializing and meeting new people, easy access, great parking.$12 for both the classes and the dance. $8 dance only or students. No partner necessary. All Ages. Casual comfortable attire. Under 18 must be accompanied by parent or guardian.

djs Waltz and polka music from 9pm to midnight.

Tom Hill teaches an introductory waltz class from 7 to 9 pm in the downstairs room. To get the most from this class, try to start at 7pm. Excellent first time class

$12 for both the classes and the dance. $8 dance only. No partner necessary. All Ages. Casual comfortable attire. Under 18 must be accompanied by parent or guardian.

First United Methodist Church, 625 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, CA. Upstairs, Fellowship hall, entrance on right of courtyard, facing away from street.

Brassworks is back for another wonderful night of waltzes, polkas and some latin, swing and tango.

introductory waltz class from 7 to 9pm

casual attire. $13 general, $8 students. sorry due to live band no separate price for dance only.

Oakland Veterans Hall, 200 Grand Avenue Oakland CA X Harrison .A beautiful dance hall, with 3,500 square foot hardwood floor, extra room for socializing and meeting new people, easy access, great parking.

The church is not available this night. We will relocate. Check in November for location.

djs Waltz and polka music from 9pm to midnight.

Tom Hill teaches an introductory waltz class from 7 to 9 pm in the downstairs room. To get the most from this class, try to start at 7pm. Excellent first time class

$12 for both the classes and the dance. $8 dance only. No partner necessary. All Ages. Casual comfortable attire. Under 18 must be accompanied by parent or guardian.

First United Methodist Church, 625 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, CA. Upstairs, Fellowship hall, entrance on right of courtyard, facing away from street.

Lilli Ann Carey from Seattle is back again to teach a class in intermediate waltz and as our Dj waltz and polka from 9 to 12 midnight.

Intermediate Waltz class from 7 to 9 pm.

Tom Hill teaches an introductory waltz class from 7 to 9 pm in the downstairs room. To get the most from this class, try to start at 7pm. Excellent first time class

Oakland Veterans Hall, 200 Grand Avenue Oakland CA X Harrison .A beautiful dance hall, with 3,500 square foot hardwood floor, extra room for socializing and meeting new people, easy access, great parking. $12 for both the classes and the dance. $8 dance only or students. No partner necessary. All Ages. Casual comfortable attire. Under 18 must be accompanied by parent or guardian.

Richard Powers teaches intermediate waltz and djs tonight. Waltz and polka music from 9pm to midnight.

Tom Hill teaches an introductory waltz class from 7 to 9 pm in the downstairs room. To get the most from this class, try to start at 7pm. Excellent first time class

This is our Holiday/Xmas/Festive/Winter Solstice party. Cheesecakes, strawberry pies, Praline pecan ice cream, Double layer Chocolate cakes, Peppridge Farm cookies, more.

$12 for both the classes and the dance. Due to special holiday dance, no separate price for dance only. No partner necessary. All Ages. Casual comfortable attire. Under 18 must be accompanied by parent or guardian.

First United Methodist Church, 625 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, CA. Upstairs, Fellowship hall, entrance on right of courtyard, facing away from street.

No Dance tonight- go to the Friday Night Waltz New Year's Eve "Over the Rainbow" Waltz Ball!

Our Seventh Annual New Year's Eve Waltz Ball. Always fun, always a great time, a wonderful way to ring in the new year. Sells out every year. 300 attendance.

Brassworks returns for a 7th time. The nation's leading vintage band, Brassworks will play a majority of waltzes with some polkas and several tangos, swing and latin. Also included is the Bohemian National Polka and the Congress of Vienna.

Always located at the National Historic Landmark the Chevron Auditorium in the International House 2299 Piedmont Berkeley Ca X Bancroft. A gorgeous 3,500 square foot hardwood floor high ceilinged Morrocan style ballroom with additional socializing in the Slusser room.

East Bay Express article

Tickets available in October.Prepaid only. $30 prepaid until 12/24 $35 after 12/24. No tickets available at door. Fixed attendance to make dancing space for everyone.

Formal attire strongly preferred, but dressy is fine too.

Delightful light refreshments - raspberry cheesecake, lemon merengue pies, apple tartes, triple chocolate cake, fruit, vegetable , shrimp and meat platters.

A non alcohol event. All Ages. Under 18 must be accompanied by parent or guardian.

Dancing to live music from 9 pm to 12:30 am.

Midnight countdown, sing along.

Mostly Waltzes and polkas, with some swing, latin, and tango,
with Congress of Vienna and Bohemian National Polka dances and mixers.

No partner necessary, many attend as singles.

3 hour introductory waltz class Tuesday December 23 from 7 to 10.
upstairs First United Methodist Church 625 Hamilton Palo Alto $15 at door for the classes

Check back in early November for more details and ticket purchase.

Pictures from previous NYE balls
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 New Year's Eve Ball

Plenty of street parking, as the students have left for the holiday vacation. Also several paid parking lots within 2 blocks.