Star Hampshire Traditional Music & Dance Weekend
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Welcome to the Star Hampshire Archives Home Page. Here you can learn about the Star Hampshire Traditional Music & Dance Weekend. Unless someone should revive it, the 2019 Weekend was the last one. It was a wonderful event founded by Patrick Stevens, and you can learn more about it throughout this website. (The extra menu is for the Wayback Machine which archives this website but leave out the menu.)
About the Weekend
The Star Hampshire Traditional Music & Dance Weekend is an annual weekend celebrating our New England traditions of lively fiddle tunes and country dance.
About Page for a fuller description of the weekend.
- Lots of contra & square dancing
- Excellent music provided by two bands, including a staff concert
- Waltzing in the hotel lobby before breakfast
- English country dancing
- A glorious place to spend a weekend
- Musicians' workshop, jam session
- Participatory service in the candlelit chapel
- Time to explore the island, and maybe even to swim although the water is rather cold
- A wonderful porch with rocking chairs facing out toward the ocean
Music & Dance Staff ~ 2019 Weekend
Calling & Teaching:
- Tony Parkes
Music By:
- Dave Langford (fiddle, guitar) and
Max Newman (guitar, mandolin) - Liz Faiella (fiddle)
Dan Faiella (guitar, low whistle)
Sound by:
- Glen Loper
The Staff Information Page has more detailed information and photos for all musicians and callers on staff.
An Amazing Sunset on Star Island. Photo by Patrick Stevens, Sept. 11, 2004.
Top of Page: Approaching the Island. Photo by Peter Yarensky, Sept. 18, 2009.
Links, Contacts & Documents
For a complete listing, please go to the Contacts and the Info pages. Here are a couple of the most commonly used for your convenience.
- Star Island Corporation Home Page
- Star Hampshire Facebook Group. Another good source of information; consider joining it!
- Registration Page. The Star Island Registration Page. For more details, go to the Star Hampshire Registration Page.
- Registrar: Peter Thompson,
(802) 333-7160, pjt368@hotmail.com - An experimental Photo Page I put together using some Adobe software. It was very easy to create, but I don't think it can be hosted on this web site.
- Web Site Change Record. Here's a record of changes made to the web site.
Star Hampshire News
Any important news about the Weekend or about important changes to the web site will be listed here.
- This website is being converted to an archive celebrating one of the most wonderful series of New England music and dance events I've ever experienced.
- last Star Hampshire Weekend. Don't miss it!