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St. Paddy’s family fiddle contra dance at the Merville Hall

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St. Paddy’s family fiddle contra dance at the Merville Hall will be held March 16. Photo contributed

Green clad dancers will flock to the wildly popular St. Patrick’s Contra Dance at the Big Yellow Merville Hall, on Saturday, March 16.

Join Paddy O’Furniture and the Irish Funtime Fiddlers as they pump out the jigs and reels for your dancing pleasure. All are welcome to attend this family friendly function.

There will be a brief Contra workshop at 7 p.m., right before the dance. Then, at 7:30, the Funtime Fiddlers leap onto the stage, strike the first notes and the gaiety begins. Singles can pair up with anyone during the dances which last about 15 to 20 minutes. In between the called Contra dances, we’ll play waltzes, polkas, swing tunes and maybe there will be a surprise act or two.

So, wear green and win a Spot Dance prize, kiss the Merville Blarney Stone and click your heels. The luck of the Irish will be with us at this kitchen party! Green music, green beer, green gills and green pickled eggs.

Doors open at 6:50, dance starts at 7:30 p.m. Cost is $10/adults, $5/youth (6 and under free) and you can come as a family for $22. FMI: seabankmars@shaw.ca