May 1st: Palo Also Baylands, 5:30 a.m.(!)
Meet at 5:30 a.m. at the Palo Alto Baylands (link goes to map). Take Embarcadero East from Highway 101 to the end of the road, turn left, go past the airport, bear right, past the Duck Pond and Gate B, right again to the parking lots. Coffee and muffins will be available. You can join in at the end, when we teach everyone the traditional and extremely easy dance “Sellenger’s Round (or The Beginning of the World).”
Mad Molly is a BACDS team — you can find out more about May Day performances by BACDS morris/performance teams here.
And later that same day:
May 1st – BACDS Palo Alto English Country Dance, 8:30 p.m.
Where we will provide mid-evening entertainment. You can dance here too — beginners welcome! All dancing taught and called, always live music by the Nonesuch Country Dance Players.
May 9th – Palo Alto Spring Tour (updated 5/6/09)
- 12-1 p.m. White Plaza at Stanford
- 1:30-2:30 BBC/Café Borrone/Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park
- 3-4 p.m. Sunnyvale Library Plaza
May 17th – Barron Park’s May Fete in Bol Park, Palo Alto, approximately 1 p.m.
An annual event for Mad Molly. Come watch us dance, then join in the maypole dancing! Learn more about the May Fete at this story from the Palo Alto Weekly archive.
June 13 – San Francisco Free Folk Festival, 1 p.m.
Mad Molly will be teaching a workshop in Border Morris, the slightly rowdier cousin of molly-dancing. Room location TBD; check festival website for the most current information. Read the rest of this entry »
