See you for a contra dance for all to see out the weekend, with a visit from one of our very favorite bands! We’re joined by Petrichord’s unique combination of influences from Old Time to Québécois, Classical to Cape Brenton, plus a visit from the amazing calling of Boston’s Harris Lappiroff!

Lesson at 4:30

Dancing at 5pm

Join us for our last public dance of the season as part of Domino Park’s Harvest Festival! We’re joined by Petrichord’s unique combination of influences from Old Time to Québécois, Classical to Cape Brenton, plus a visit from the amazing calling of Boston’s Harris Lapiroff!

Dancing at 1pm

We’ll see you for a barn dance in Robert Wagner Park in collaboration with the Battery Park City Authority. We’ll have calling from Carl Levine, live music from the Anna Bosnicks and her quartet of friends!! Dancing kicks off right at 5:00 and we’ll dance through sunset.

BE SURE TO CHECK THE LOCATION! 20 Battery Park Place Robert Wagner Park. Its just on the North West side of Battery Park (between Castle Clinton and the Museum of Jewish Heritage).

Join us for our first Sunday dance of the cooler weather and early sunsets! We’re joined by the fiery fiddlin' and foot stompin' piano of Raven and Goose, all the way from the west coast, plus the joined from Maine by Lyss Adkins calling!

Lesson at 4:30

Dancing at 5pm

Been loving contra as a new dancer but want to take your dancing to the next level? Been dancing for years but want a stronger foundation? Want time to learn or practice some flourishes outside of a dance?

Join Brooklyn Contra and Alyssa Adkins for the second installment of our Contra Connections series. We’ll look at less common, intermediate contra moves and break them down, learn flourishes and fun places to put them, and go over techniques to make partnered dancing feel smooth, attentive, and effortlessly connected.

Join Brooklyn Contra for an evening of music and song with Emma Azelborn and Paper Plane. Emma will sing her own tunes and lead the audience in a few as well, while Paper Plane will bring their trademark Québécois and Irish tunes.

Door: 6:30 pm

Music: 7:00 pm

Our annual harvest ball features some of New England’s best contra talent with calling from Will Mentor, and

Join us for our annual Harvest Ball!

Advanced Dance at 3:30pm

Lesson at 7:30pm

Contra For All at 8pm

Join us for a barn dance in the heart of Manhattan!

In partnership with Works and Process and Manhattan West Plaza, we’ll be bringing the joy and connection of dance to Midtown. With Carter North calling dances for all levels and the driving tunes of Some Assembly Required, this will be the after-work refresher you didn’t know you need.

Join us for a dance with the stompy, exciting, fun, and funky trio of Cojioro, featuring Jess Newman on fiddle, Mark Price on guitar and cello, and Benjamin Graubart on driving fiddle and mandolin! Plus a visit from Western Mass-based caller Julian Blechner!

Lesson at 7:30

Dancing at 8pm

Join us for a summer swing with live music for a special edition of Some Assembly Required, this week led by Arwen van Stigt’s fiddle, guitar and banjo from Brandon Tacconelli, plus rhythm from Alex Richey on piano! Together, they'll bring joyous, dynamic interpretations of traditional Appalachian and Irish tunes to help you whirl away the night. Plus the always amazing calling of Maia McCormick!

Lesson at 7:30

Dancing at 8pm

We’re partnering with the Center for Brooklyn History to add some music and dance to their celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn!

Join BkC for two family-friendly community dancing sessions with live music at 12:30pm and 4pm, and CBH for a whole day of fun!

Join Brooklyn Contra for an evening of music and song to benefit BkC and the NYC Catholic Worker!

We’ll have Macedonian tunes from Niva, bluegrass from Tiv Hay-Rubin, and singing led by Lissa Michalak!

Doors: 7 pm

Music: 7:30 pm

Friends! This summer and fall, Brooklyn Contra is partnering to put on some concerts at the NYC Catholic Worker on the Lower East Side. We’ll be putting on a benefit concert on August 21st, a concert and sing with Emma Azelborn and Paper Plane on September 25th, and more!

But first we have to get the hall looking beautiful, so we’re hosting a work day at this early 19th-century music hall to get it spiffed up!

Brooklyn Contra is pleased to sponser an Irish Jam at Rullo’s Bar in South Slope, Brooklyn. Join jam leader Arwen van Stigt for a jam for Irish players at any level. Arwen and friends will lead a variety of tunes, from advanced to beginer, just play what you know!

Join us for a second bite at the Big Apple Contra Band’s amazing tunes, with a cinnamon sugar dip of calling from Carl Levine! This four-slice ensemble is led by Brendan Hearn and his juicy cello and guitar, alongside the crisp twin fiddles of Cleek Shrey and Liz Hanley, with a jazz rhythm core of Dylan McKinstry on drums!

Friends! Fancy a waltz in the park? Or a summer afternoon spritz? Or just a slice of watermelon among friends? Then join us for Brooklyn Contra's summer members' picnic!

We'll provide appetizers, watermelon, spritzes, lawn games, and more; you bring yourself (and anything else you like!) for an afternoon in the Peristyle at the south end of Prospect Park.

Join us for a summer evenings dance in our air conditioned hall! We’ll have live music for a special edition of Some Assembly Required, this week lead by Arwen van Stigt’s fiddle, with mandolin picking from Benjamin Graubart, rhythmic from Alex Richey on piano and Nicholas Fitzgerald on accordion. Together, they'll bring joyus, dynamic, interpretations of traditional Appalachian and Irish tunes to help you whirl away the night.Plus the NYC calling debut of Andrew Stout!

Lesson at 7:30

Dancing at 8pm

Join us for a lovely summer evening of dancing! We’ll have live music from Cozy Socks and calling from local favorite Carter North!

Lesson at 7:30

Dancing at 8pm

Join us for a Family Dance at New York Historical to celebrate America 250 and the birthday of the United States.

This program is appropriate for all ages and museum admission will be free on that day!

An evening of songs and storytelling with cellist and singer Ben Sollee. Infused with R&B and folk, this Kentucky-based artist’s soulful songs will have you groovin’ through the night.

Join us for a Family Dance at New York Historical, in celebration of the opening of their new wing!

This program is appropriate for all ages and included in museum admission.

The stunning new Tang Wing for American Democracy will serve as home for The New York Historical's Academy for American Democracy and Dorothy Tapper Goldman Center for Teaching Democracy. The top floor of the new wing will be home to the first-ever American LGBTQ+ Museum, telling the story of the long struggle for full American citizenship for members of the LGBTQ+ community.

We’re turning it up for our first Summer Saturday dance with a five piece Big Apple Contra Band bringing a big slice of NYC’s best to the Brooklyn Contra stage, with a caramel coating of calling from Carl Levine! This big five piece ensemble is lead by Brendan Hearn and his juicy cello and guitar alongside the crisp twin fiddles of Cleek Shrey and Meghan Mette all wrapped around a jazz rhythm core of Aiden Scrimgeour on piano and accordion Jerome Morris on drums.

Lesson at 7:30

Dancing at 8pm

Join Brooklyn Contra as we dance in the year as part of Solstice in the Park! Solstice in the Park is a free, volunteer-spun celebration of midsummer magic, where song drifts through the trees, dancers twirl like sunlight on water, and pageantry blooms wild and bright. Together, we’ll greet the turning of the stars, kindle an age-old spirit of merry revelry, and weave a little more community into the world.

Gather by 5pm at Prospect Park's Willink Plaza entrance (Flatbush Ave at Empire Blvd). Dancing at Concert Grove around 6:00 PM.

It’s that time of year! We cross the Buttermilk Channel to dance on Governors Island at the city’s largest folk festival, Porch Stomp!

We will be at the Flatfoot Flatbush stage from 1-2pm. Be sure to check out the many amazing musicians and stages throughout the island!

Brooklyn Contra is pleased to sponser an Irish Jam at Rullo’s Bar in South Slope, Brooklyn. Join jam leader Arwen van Stigt for a jam for Irish players at any level. Arwen and friends will lead a variety of tunes, from advanced to beginer, just play what you know!

Friends! We’re celebrating Pride Month with a techno contra at the West Village LGBT Center! We’ll have DJ’d beats from DJ Chloe Rosenthal! Plus a very glittery face-paint station!

5:30pm: Doors, Face Painting, Happy Hour (Dry)

6:00pm: Dancing!

Been loving contra as a new dancer but want to take your dancing to the next level? Been dancing for years but want a stronger foundation? Want time to learn or practice some flourishes outside of a dance?

Join Brooklyn Contra and Alyssa Adkins at our first Intermediate Contra workshop! We’ll look at less common, intermediate contra moves and break them down, learn flourishes and fun places to put them, and go over techniques to make partnered dancing feel smooth, attentive, and effortlessly connected.

See you for a contra dance for all with the rocking twin fiddles and driving piano rhythms of Cozy Socks plus calling from Carter North!

Lesson for new dancers at 4:30pm

Dancing at 5:00pm

Brooklyn Contra is pleased to sponser an Irish Jam at Rullo’s Bar in South Slope, Brooklyn. Join jam leader Arwen van Stigt for a jam for Irish players at any level. Arwen and friends will lead a variety of tunes, from advanced to beginer, just play what you know!

Join us for our annual May Day Dance! We’ll have live tunes from the famous The Gaslight Tinkers', who’s blend of global rhythms with New England contra tunes lights up the dance floor! Plus our traditional Maypole, and calling from the incomparable Maia McCormick.