Episode 36 - Anita Anderson

Contra Pulse

The intro and interstitial tracks from today’s episode are MacPherson Strut, Coriolis/Midnight Couchette/Brushfire/Myra’s and April Storm/Kate and Roses from Bag ‘o Tricks’ self-titled album, and Gray Jay from Roguery’s CD #6.

See the Contra Pulse website for transcripts and more. Or click to download the transcript directly.

And the Country Dance and Song Society for information about Contra and English country dance across the continent.

See and hear Anita Anderson in action:

• Here are two clips from one of Anita’s most recent gigs, a masked/vaxxed, in-person Lake City Contra Dance in Seattle! She’s playing with Ryan McKasson and Dave Bartley.
  • Clip #1
  • Clip #2 - Band close-up!
• Here she is playing at Seattle’s first gender-free Rainbow Contra Dance with Susan Burke and Marni Rachmiel in 2011
• Anita frequently plays with Dave Bartley, Sande Gillette, and Betsy Cooper in the ECD band the “Tricky Brits” and the same group’s contra counterpart, “Bag o' Tricks.” Learn more about their recordings here.
• Anita is also an anchor in the west coast ECD scene; along with the Tricky Brits she also plays with the ECD group Roguery (Anita, Dave Bartley, Shira Kammen and Jim Oakden)
  • Here they are at the Seattle Ball in 2017
  • And again at Hey Days in 2018
  • Roguery has recorded six CDs, which accompany Brooke Friendly and Chris Sackett’s six published collections of Scottish and English Country Dances

Other recordings played in this episode

• Julie and Anita play excerpts from the following tracks in this episode:
• Father Charlie’s/Frankie’s Tune from the album Hand it Down by Bob McQuillen, Laurie Andres, Cathie Whitesides
• Soulmate from Rodney Miller’s Airplang