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Contra Dances 

Other groups that sponsor contra dances within 5-6 hours' driving distance of Charleston include Columbia Old Time Music & Dance (Columbia, SC), Lake Murray Contra (Leesville, SC), Old Farmer's Ball (Asheville, NC), Charlotte Country Dancers and Charlotte Dance Gypsies (Charlotte, NC), Harvest Moon Folk Society (Greenville, SC), Fiddle and Bow Country Dancers (Winston-Salem & Greensboro, NC), Triangle County NC, Savannah Folk Music Society (Savannah, GA), Chattahooche Country Dancers (Atlanta, GA), Athens Folk Music and Dance Society (Athens, GA), and Cape Fear Contra Dancers (Wilmington, NC).

For an overview of dances in the South Atlantic region, as well as other regions in the country, check out Charlie Seelig's pages. Email contact info for bands and callers can be found there, too.

For information about contra dances anywhere in the USA, see Kiran Wagle's contra dance pages or Bob Stein's. Other resources for locating dances nationwide are the NEFFA LinkFest! pages and the contra dance map created by Dwayne Johnson, and a new Dance Data Base at Ted Crane's ContraDanceDB.


Social Dances in Charleston

Charleston Swing Dance Association hosts Saturday night dances at Hazel Parker Playground in downtown Charleston
Charleston RugCutters hosts swing and ballroom lessons on 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at St. Luke and St. Paul in downtown Charleston.
Roaring Twenties Hot Jazz Dance Club hosts Friday night dances at Spirit Moves in West Ashley.
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