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events:
  - name: Dance Trance
    details: "Dance Trance 2025 Contra Dance Weekend – June 6-8, 2025 – featuring Toss the Possum and callers Darlene Underwood and Terry Doyle. Come join us in June in Lexington, Kentucky in the beautiful bluegrass region.  The weekend offers contra dances, English country dance, flatfooting, blues dance, musicians’ jam, and more!"
    links:
      - "https://www.dancetrance.ltda.us/"
      - "https://cdss.org/event/dance-trance/"
    start: "2025-06-06T20:00:00-04:00"
    end: "2025-06-08T15:00:00-04:00"
    country: USA
    state: KY
    city: Lexington
    styles:
      - contra
      - ecd
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Toss the Possum
    callers:
      - Darlene Underwood
      - Terry Doyle
    price: $50-$105
    organisation: Lexington Traditional Dance Association
    source: events/usa/cdss.yaml
  - name: Cleveland Butterfly Twirl
    details: "An exciting weekend dance, in Cleveland, with two wonderful bands: George Paul and Playing with Fire, & Tom Cunningham and Hot Coffee Breakdown. Two wonderful callers: Gaye Fifer and Darlene Underwood. Sound by Hanno. We’d love you and your friends to join us for a dance weekend of smiling faces, joyous laughter, wonderful music, hands four, friendship and community."
    links:
      - "https://www.clevelandbutterflytwirl.org/"
      - "https://cdss.org/event/cleveland-butterfly-twirl/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/1279189076745356/"
    start_date: 2025-09-12
    end_date: 2025-09-14
    country: USA
    state: OH
    city: Chagrin Falls
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: false
    social: true
    bands:
      - Hot Coffee Breakdown
      - Playing with Fyre
    callers:
      - Carol Kopp
      - Darlene Underwood
      - Gaye Fifer
      - Michael Hamilton
    price: $130
    organisation: CDSS
    source: events/usa/cdss.yaml
  - name: Music City Masquerade
    links:
      - "http://nashvillecountrydancers.org/music-city-masquerade/"
    start_date: 2025-10-24
    end_date: 2025-10-26
    country: USA
    state: TN
    city: Nashville
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Engine Room
    callers:
      - Darlene Underwood
    price: $65-$165
    organisation: TryContra
    source: events/usa/trycontra.yaml