The 29th Annual Juneau Barn Dance Season starts Saturday.<\/p>\n
Dancing starts at 7:30 p.m. at St. Ann’s Parish Hall, 430 Fifth St., and will feature Celtic music courtest of the Taku Gaels.<\/p>\n
“The band’s the reason we have the dance,” said Tom Paul, who has been calling dances since 1990.<\/p>\n
The Taku Gaels are Greg McLaughlin on concertina, Lis and Leif Saya on guitar and fiddle and Henry and Erik Hopkins on banjo and fiddle.<\/p>\n
Paul will teach and call contra and square dances Saturday night for dancers of all abilities.<\/p>\n
Experience and a partner aren’t needed for the dance sponsored by Juneau International Folkdancers.<\/p>\n
Tickets will be sold at the door. They will cost $10 for adults, $5 for students and those 25 and younger and free for Jesuit Volunteers and Amiercorps members.<\/p>\n
Know & Go<\/strong><\/p>\n What: First dance of the 29th Annual Juneau Barn Dance Season<\/p>\n Where: St. Ann’s Parish Hall, 430 Fifth St.<\/p>\n When: 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n Admission: $10 for adults, $5 for those 25 and younger and free for Jesuit Volunteers and Americorps members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 29th Annual Juneau Barn Dance Season starts Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":474,"featured_media":36030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[73,322],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-36029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ccw","tag-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36029"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=36029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}