Chehalis Contra Dance Camp

Chehalis 2010

This year, the camp will be held on the weekend of September 17th to 19th. The callers will be Susan Michaels from Glendale, California, and Seth Tepfer from Atlanta, Georgia. The bands will be The Avant Gardeners (Laura Light on fiddle and vocals, George Paul on piano and accordion, and guests Dave Bartley on guitar and mandolin, and Mark Hellenberg on percussion) and Zollo (Cathie Whitesides on fiddle, Anita Anderson on piano, Nova Devonie on accordion, with Russell Shumsky on percussion).

The online brochure is now available!

The weekend schedule is now online.

Chehalis 2009

Last year, the camp was held on the weekend of September 18th to 20th. The callers were Nils Fredland from Keene, New Hampshire, and Jeremy Korr from southern California. The bands were Great Bear Trio (Andrew & Noah VanNorstrand and their mother Kim on piano) from New York, and Red Crow (Susan Burke, Wayne Clark, Chuck Pliske, & Joe Micheals) from Seattle.

Photos & Videos! OutdoorsyIsIn has posted 6 videos and 17 photos from the weekend. MattBFisher has posted a video. ChehalisDance has posted 18 photos taken by Jeremy Korr. If you have any online photos from the camp, please email ChehalisDance@yahoo.com and we'll link to them.

 

The Chehalis Contra Dance Camp is held every year in late September, at YMCA Camp Elphinstone on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast.

Our mission is friendly music and dance fun for all. We offer music and dance workshops, dancing and late night music jams. We're confident that you will love our unique, contra-focused camp in Canada's beautiful Pacific Southwest.

artwork courtesy of
June Harman

YMCA Camp Elphinstone is just east of Gibsons, BC, a 40-minute ferry ride from Vancouver. (Click here for directions.) The camp is on 144 acres of quiet parkland with a mile of shoreline and breathtaking views of Gambier Island and the Coast Mountains. You'll stay in heated rustic cabins and share a communal bathhouse.

If you're wondering what kind of bands and callers come to Chehalis, here's a history of the camp's staff since it started in 1988.

Several Chehalis campers have put their photos of the camp online.

More recently, people have been posting videos:

If you have Chehalis-related photos or videos on the web, and you'd like to see them listed here, let us know!

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