Freight On The Plaza

Evie Ladin Old Time Dance Party

Evie Ladin Old Time Dance Party

Freight LIVE on the Plaza
Downtown Berkeley Plaza
August 29th 6pm-7pm

Live old time stringband music and caller – no experience needed, all dances taught, and fun! All ages. Join Us at Downtown Berkeley BART Plaza, provided for FREE by the Freight & Salvage.

Music starts at 5:30 PM and continues to 6:30 PM. The Downtown Berkeley Association and Sliver will host a beer garden on the plaza from 5 PM to 7 PM

Banjo player, singer, songwriter, percussive-dancer, choreographer and square-dance caller, Evie Ladin grew up steeped in traditional folk music/dance, and brings a contemporary vision to her compositions and choreography. Evie’s performances, recordings and teaching reconnect Appalachian music/dance with other African-Diaspora traditions, and have been heard from A Prairie Home Companion to Lincoln Center, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass to Celtic Connections. She has taken home ribbons in folk song from Mt Airy, NC Fiddler’s Convention, and Neo-Trad Band from the Appalachian Stringband Festival, Clifftop, WV. Based in Oakland, CA,

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Freight Live on the Plaza: Previous Shows

Edgardo Cambón “La-Ti-Do” Salsa-Bachata-Cumbia-Merengue

Free
Thursday June 20th, 5:30pm – 6:30pm

Edgar Cambón has been bandleader for 26 years of the renowned salsa band “Edgardo & Candela.” Toured throughout South America, Europe, and Africa since 1986.

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Strike Iron

Free
Thursday July 25th, 5:30pm – 6:30pm

Strike Iron is an Oakland based, 12-piece juggernaut who brings high-energy grooves and a blistering band. Completed by an explosive stage show, thick with hypnotic percussion, heavy horns, dance, roaring vocals, funky rhythms, and pulsating group movement. Born out of the ashes of the international Afrobeat act Albino, Strike Iron brings sexy, socially charged dance music into the 21st century

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