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Join us for some great music and great dancing. The Cascadia Weekend is another opportunity, along with the Seattle English
Ball, to dance and party and celebrate. English Country Dancers of all levels of experience are welcome. The weekend starts
with a Friday English Country Dance. Then we'll have workshop/dances on Saturday, with a festive dance Saturday
night.(Please "dress up" if you want!.) On Sunday we will have two more workshop/dances, with perhaps a sunny day and a
picnic in the afternoon.

And of course the MUSIC. Frankly, the reason we do this every year is to show off and enjoy the Northwest’s gift to the universe,
our cast of great muscians. In the past we have invited Julian Adamaitis, Anita Anderson, Laurie Andres, Bob Archer, Dave
Bartley, Charles Coldwell, Andrea Cooper, Liz Dreisbach, Kyra Freestar, Sande Gillette, Claude Ginsburg, Karen Iglitzin, Matt
Kelly, Julie King, Deb Kirkland, Susan Larkin, Joanne Lauterjung, Fred Nussbaum, Charli Meacham, Kimberly McKittrick,
Marni Rachmiel, Marion Rose, Lynn Warschauer, Cathy Whitesides. Most of these splendid musicians, and others will join us,
and be coordinated by Kimberly McKittrick.

The music, of course, will be amplified by none other than the Northwest’s gift to beautiful sound everywhere, WARREN ARGO
.

For more information about Cascadia, please contact Karen Shaw, 206-784-2028; or Paul Bestock, 206-329-7289

For more information about English Dancing, click here

Jenny Beer will be the leading lady at Cascadia this year! The reason we invited her is because we
love the way she dances. She lights up the floor, and her grace and energy are contagious. It is no
small bonus that she is a clear and efficient teacher and caller. And we believe that she who has
composed "Key to the Cellar" is going to program a weekend of dances that we are going to love. She
also plays piano and recorder for English and Scottish Country dancing. Jenny started country dancing
in Indiana and happily joined groups wherever life has taken her since: northern Japan, Vermont,
Delaware, Berkeley, CA, Osaka. In earlier incarnations she was an avid contra dancer. She has more
than a decade experience running dance group websites, and enjoys drawing new dancers,
musicians, and volunteers into the community. Jenny has a professional career as a consultant doing
facilitation, conflict resolution, and cross-cultural communication; she has a PhD in Cultural
Anthropology and teaches at Wharton Business School and the Bryn Mawr School of Social Work.
What a splendid set of skills to share with our dancers and musicians.