Time: 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Beginner lesson: 7:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Location: Fairhaven Library Auditorium (enter through side door). 1117 12th St., Fairhaven

Band: Bellingham locals Blueberry Jam with Sky Leuba on piano and concertina, Liam Weydert on guitar, and Brain Anderson on Bodhran.

Caller: Seattle’s Eric Curl

Entry: $12-$15; $8 students (by donation)

More about the band/caller:

Blueberry Jam

Blueberry Jam: is the passion project of Sky Leuba, a local Bellingham musician who grew up just across the border in Langley, BC. It features a somewhat rotating cast of musicians with the aim to provide a platform to introduce local musicians to the dance scene and have a jolly good time. The music is well established in tradition, but with a propensity for some improvisation, arrangement, as well as the infusion of original piano compositions that speak to Sky’s formative education in classical and jazz.

Sky: Sky is a local Bellingham folk musician deeply rooted in the Contra Dance and folk music community. He was raised  coming to the Fairhaven Library dances, his parents having met at a dance in Ohio. Growing up he longed to play in the bands and through much persistence that dream became a reality. He enjoys taking part in the weekly tune jams at Menace brewery and Uisce and started a traditional singing “pub” session that is also hosted at Menace.

Brian: Brian Anderson is a percussionist hailing from Bellingham, Washington. Anderson began his musical study playing wind instruments in school then quickly expanded into the world of drums and percussion. Through the last 25 years he has performed in bands and ensembles ranging in genres from jazz to punk rock, cabaret to Celtic. Anderson is very connected to his ancestral lines back to Ireland and Scotland. Through that connection he found his passion for playing Celtic music, the bodhran and session culture.

Eric Curl

Eric Curl: Eric started calling in 1996 and called in California and Colorado before moving Seattle in 2007 and Olympia in 2019. A retired mechanical engineer from Boeing, he now enjoys being a flight instructor as well as calling in Washington and Oregon on a semi-regular basis.