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CZ Annual Picnic and Potluck
Live Music! Bon Ton Roulet is playing from 7-9 PM
Date: August 14, 2010
Time: starts at 1am, ends when everyone goes home or Ralph kicks us out
Location: Tangoasis aka Ralph Olsen's
3919 NE 50th Ave
Vancouver, WA 98661
(map)
360-694-1443
Admission: free for members, $5.00 for non-members
Cascade Zydeco is providing the grill meats, water and soda. Please bring something delicious to share and your own optional alcohol.
Dikki Du (Troy Carrier) & Zydeco Krewe
Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Dikki Du, Blues Festival 2008
Location: PPAA (Portland Police Athletic Association), 618 SE Alder Street, Portland, OR 97214 ( map )
Time: Class: 6 - 7
Dance: 7 - 10:30 (with a break from 8:30 - 9)
Admission: General admission $15, Cascade Zydeco Members $13
Listen on Dikki's My Space
Cascade Zydeco Needs YOU!
We did such a great job at the Blues Festival Swamp Romp that we have been invited to setup a booth at Willamette Valley Brews & Blues Festival http://wvbbf.org/.
Jim Lalone is organizing this event. He needs people to work the booth. We will be playing music and dancing, plus giving dance demos. This is a great opportunity to promote Dance Camp and our club.
Contact Jim if you can help jimlalone@q.com, 971-227-4189.
Willamette Valley Brews & Blues Festival
Date: Friday, August 6, 4pm to 10:30 and Saturday,
August 7, 10:30am to 10:30pm
Location: Island Park in Springfield, Oregon. (map)
Admission: $8 plus 3 non-perishable food items to
donate to FOOD for Lane County
Check out our incredible line-up of artists playing on our 3 stages, all for $8/day! Friday headliner is Curtis Salgado, 2010 BMA "Male Blues Soul Performer of the Year and Saturday, Karen Lovely, with special guest Peter Damman, of the Paul deLay Band are the headliners.
Donna Angelle
Date: Wednesday July 7th, 2010
Listen on Donna's or Rubboard Mary's My Space
Curley Taylor and Zydeco Trouble
Listen to Curly on Myspace and YouTube
Date: Wednesday June 30th, 2010
Salsa Fund Raiser for Dance Camp
TooLoose
Date: Friday June 18, 2010Lesson: 7:30
Dance: 8:30 - 12:00
Admission: $10
Location: PPAA
TooLoose is planning to have two or three special guests playing with them. The keyboard player added a lot to the sound. This gig is jointly sponsored by Portland Waltz Eclectic & Cascade Zydeco.
Dick taught the lesson for the Cajun Two-Step - 1, 2, 3, tap, 1, 2, 3, tap.
Support Blues Festival
Each year, the festival managers look to see our level of support from the previous year. This helps them determine the number of zydeco bands to hire, the size of the dance floor & overhead sun/rain protection to rent, & where & how big a booth from which to disseminate information about cascade zydeco.
Your support is crucial to our participation at the festival.
Bring your checkbook to zydeco next week & make a contribution Make checks to "Oregon Food Bank" & give them to Dick Brainard, Or mail them to him at 813 Alder St. #700, Portland, OR 97205 He will submit all checks at one time to show the level of our support. Thank you.
Contributions so far... we need more.
Read how your contribution helps.
Help with Dance Camp
Terri Jo and Janine are the new Dance Camp coordinators for 2010. We are
hoping that you are interested in helping out with Dance Camp this year.
Many tasks to make it run smoothly. If you have ideas, suggestions,
talents, we would like to hear from you. We will be brainstorming,
reviewing what we feel may be useful committees and tasks for this years
Dance Camp.
Informational Meeting for Volunteers
Date: Saturday May 22, 2010
Time: 11:00 am- 1:00 pm
Location: TBA
Contact: Roland and Janine at
rjtjmj123@msn.com, or
503-313-3850, or at Wednesday night zydeco cd dances
Dance Camp Fund Raiser
Cheré Weiss, our 2010 Dance Camp Fund Raising chair, is hard at work and
needs volunteers to help serve food, bus tables, chat with people, and
dance.
Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010 and Thursday, June 10 from 5 - 8 pm
Time: 5 - 8 pm
Location: Salmon Creek Burgerville, 13309 NE Hwy
99, Vancouver, WA 98686-2731 ( map )
Burgerville hosts these wonderful community events for worthy causes (like CZ Dance Camp) and 10% of the proceeds from sales goes to camp! By the way, this is the only Burgerville with wine and beer.
CD release party for "The Jewel of the Bayou".
LeRoy Thomas
Date: Friday, May
14, 2010
Gator Gazzete Review of Jewel of the Bayou
Location: PPAA (Portland Police Athletic Association), 618 SE Alder Street, Portland, OR 97214
Zydeco Lessons with Penny and Phil
Date: Thursday, Apr 15 -May 20, 2010 (6 weeks)
Lesson: 6:30 - 7:30pm
Dancing to cds: 7:30 - 8:30pm
Location: St Stephen's Church,
1428 22nd Ave (corner of Louisiana)
Longview, WA
98632-2828
Cost: $5 per person
Beautiful hard wood floor in the parish hall.
Penny and Phil instruct for Cascade Zydeco in Portland.
Richard Allen and the Louisiana Experience
Date: Friday, April 20, 2010
Richard played to mixed reviews. He put together a whole new band for our event. After some helpful comments from cz members, the second set was more danceable.
Many dancers enjoyed the singing voices, variety of music and stage presence of this group.
The Band Committee welcomes your comments. See the contact page for the name of committee members.
Texas Two Step Class and Dance
Cascade Zydeco Dance Camp Benefit Friends and Neighbors,
What: Texas Two Step Dance Class
Where: Tangoasis 3919 NE 50th Ave. Vancouver, WA 98661 A.K.A. Ralph
Olsen's place.
(map)
When: April 24, 2010 at 11am
Admission: $5.00
Teacher: John Klindt
The dance lesson will be from 11am to noon with two hours of dancing to
follow. John will be here to help and assist as the dancing goes on. This
is a Cascade Zydeco Dance Camp benefit. Net proceeds go to the Zydeco Dance
Camp fund. (Bring your own munchies, etc.)
Appreciation Night at Peppers
Pepper's Dancers say "thank-you" to Phil and Penny.
Zydeco and Country Two Step
Classes started January 14th in Vancouver at Marshall Community Center. John Klindt was the teacher.
Blues/Zydeco Fusion II
Workshop and Dance
Love Zydeco? Adore the Blues? This workshop's for you! Recap your Zydeco fundamentals and learn some great moves to use at the dance that transition into the beautifully blurred space between Zydeco and Blues.
Date: Saturday, February 6, 2010
Location: Vancouver Ballroom - 808 Main Street,
Vancouver, WA 98660
( map )
Workshop Instructors: Sean Donovan and Jodi Fleischman from Seattle.
Known for her warm and playful teaching style, Jodi loves sharing her passion
for all things dance (over 17 years now!). What matters to Jodi (a Pacific
Northwest Grand Champion Lindy Hopper who has studied and taught dance
internationally) is the heart, the music and the connection with another on the
dance floor.
Sean brings positive good fun, playful creativity, and a keen intuition to help dancers find ever more joyful, fluid movement and an elemental connection to themselves, the music, and their partner that makes for spontaneous, ecstatic dancing.
March Workshop Pictures
"Cat"
took these great pictures are the
March Blues/Zydeco workshop.
Band: Leon Chavis and the Zydeco Flames
Thanks to Bill Zude for these great pictures from Dance Camp.
Meet the rest of the band.
Date: Saturday, February 6, 2010
Location: Vancouver Ballroom - 808 Main Street,
Vancouver, WA 98660
( map )
Time:
Beginning class with Roland and Janine, 7-8 pm
Dance: 8 - 11:30 pm (break from 9:30 - 10:00)
Admission: General admission dance alone, $15
Zydeco in Longview
Leon Chavis and the Zydeco Flames
Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010
Location: Longview National Guard Armory at 819
Vandercook Way, *Longview, WA 98632 ( map )
Lesson: 7:00 - 8:00 pm with Phil and Penny
Dance: 8-11:30pm
Admission: $15 at the door
Soft drinks and snacks available for purchase. All ages welcome, no alcohol permitted on site. Plenty of parking. This event is a fund raiser for Galveston, TX and Hurricane Ike Relief through the St. Stephen's Episcopal Church.
For more information or to volunteer at the event, contact Cheré Weiss at (360) 430-8865 or email: chewei0922@gmail.com
*Longview is 45 minutes north of Vancouver, or 30 minutes depending on who is driving and how eager ya'll are to dance...
To help support there is a pre-event fund raising to cover the cost for the band. Come to the Kelso Burgerville on Thursday Jan 28th between 5-8 p.m. 10% of the proceeds that night will go towards the cost of the event. We will have zydeco on the juke box and dancing to promote the event.
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