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events:
  - name: Monday Cincinnati Contra Dance
    details: "Weekly Contra Dance at Wyoming Fine Arts Center, including waltz and maybe squares. Live music from many rotating bands. Many rotating callers using gendered or gender-free prompts. Teaching at 7 pm. Dance from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm."
    links:
      - "https://www.cincinnaticontradance.org/schedule.htm"
      - "https://cdss.org/event/monday-cincinnati-contra-dance/2025-05-19/"
    start: "2025-05-19T19:00:00-04:00"
    end: "2025-05-19T21:30:00-04:00"
    country: USA
    state: OH
    city: Wyoming
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: $2-$5
    organisation: Cincinnati Contra Dance
    source: events/usa/cdss.yaml
  - name: Cleveland Thursday English Country Dance
    details: "Come join us every Thursday afternoon for English Country Dancing. \nCombination of live and recorded music, in an air-conditioned hall."
    links:
      - "https://englishcountryorg.wordpress.com/"
      - "https://cdss.org/event/cleveland-thursday-english-country-dance/2025-05-22/"
    start: "2025-05-22T13:30:00-04:00"
    end: "2025-05-22T15:00:00-04:00"
    country: USA
    state: OH
    city: Cleveland Heights
    styles:
      - ecd
    workshop: false
    social: true
    price: $2
    organisation: Cleveland English Dance Community
    source: events/usa/cdss.yaml
  - name: Monday Cincinnati Contra Dance
    details: "Weekly Contra Dance at Wyoming Fine Arts Center, including waltz and maybe squares. Live music from many rotating bands. Many rotating callers using gendered or gender-free prompts. Teaching at 7 pm. Dance from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm."
    links:
      - "https://www.cincinnaticontradance.org/schedule.htm"
      - "https://cdss.org/event/monday-cincinnati-contra-dance/2025-05-26/"
    start: "2025-05-26T19:00:00-04:00"
    end: "2025-05-26T21:30:00-04:00"
    country: USA
    state: OH
    city: Wyoming
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    price: $2-$5
    organisation: Cincinnati Contra Dance
    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: Columbus English Country Dance Weekend
    details: "English country dance weekend in Columbus, Ohio with music by Jacqueline Schwab, Mary Lea, Earl Gaddis, and Dan Beerbohm and calling by Beverly Francis and Dan Blim. (More details coming.)"
    links:
      - "https://cdss.org/event/columbus-english-country-dance-weekend/"
      - "https://www.facebook.com/events/507713561953486/"
    start_date: 2025-10-17
    end_date: 2025-10-19
    country: USA
    state: OH
    city: Colombus
    styles:
      - ecd
    workshop: false
    social: true
    callers:
      - Beverly Francis
      - Dan Blim
    organisation: English Country Dancers of Columbus
    source: events/usa/cdss.yaml
  - name: Pigtown Fling
    links:
      - "https://www.pigtownfling.com/"
    start_date: 2026-03-27
    end_date: 2026-03-29
    country: USA
    state: OH
    city: Cincinatti
    styles:
      - contra
    workshop: true
    social: true
    bands:
      - Kingfisher
      - The Dam Beavers
    callers:
      - Wendy Graham
      - Will Mentor
    organisation: TryContra
    source: events/usa/trycontra.yaml