Upcoming
performances
Friday
March 16th - Celebrate the 25th Anniversary celebration of
Ithaca's Irish Traditional Music Session at CSMA The Community School
of Music and Arts State Street Ithaca NY - Featuring Dalriada, The Grady Girls, host
session band Traonach, and
other local artists, including O'Shanigans
and a children's band, Tip Naog.
This is the only irish event around St. Patrick's Day, so come join the
celebration! Facebook
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Fri Apr 06 2012 - ITHACA
NY. Back for a
fun contra
dance! O'Shanigans  dance
party with Tim,
Mike
and Phil at
Bethel Grove
Community Center. Local favorite and funtastic TBA will be
calling the dances at 1825 Slaterville Road (Rt
79
about 4 miles east
of Ithaca) Ithaca NY from 8-11 pm. Admission $6- Sponsored by: TCCD -
Tompkins County
Country. Tim Ball (fiddle), Phil Robinson (guitar), Mike Ludgate
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Fri Jun 01 2012 COOPERSTOWN
NY -- O'Shanigans
w/ Tim, Mike and Phil for
a contra dance. Caller Peter Blue. First Presbyterian Church, on the
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Previous
performances
Dec
03 2011 MORRISVILLE NY O'Shanigans
is
playing high energy contra dance tunes with Tim Ball
(fiddle), Phil Robinson (guitar)
and Mike Ludgate (mandolin) at Madison
Hall
in Morrisville NY
for the Syracuse Contra Dance. The
fantastic caller David
Smukler will teach the dances. Madison Hall was listed
on the National Register
of Historic Places in 1978. See
www.oshanigans.org/ for
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Fri Oct 21 2011 - ITHACA
NY. Back for a
fun contra
dance! O'Shanigans dance
party with Tim,
Mike
and Phil at
Bethel Grove
Community Center. Local favorite and funtastic Nancy Spero will be
calling the dances at 1825 Slaterville Road (Rt
79
about 4 miles east
of Ithaca) Ithaca NY from 8-11 pm. Admission $6- Sponsored by: TCCD -
Tompkins County
Country. Tim Ball (fiddle), Phil Robinson (guitar), Mike Ludgate
(mandolin). [ O'SHANIGANS
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Fri Sept 9 2011 Bob Nicholson
calling to the music of NO'Shanigans! This version of NO'Shanigans is
Michael Ludgate (on mandolin) with Margaret
Ball and Howard
Blumenthal (on twin fiddles) and Jim MacWilliams (power
guitar). Margaret Ball
is an accomplished fiddler and is recently in great demand for both
English and Contra. Howard is well know in Western NY for organizing
and playing at many dance events. Jim has years of experience providing
awesome guitar playing for contra fiddlers! 8-10 pm at United Church of
Fayetteville 310 E. Genesee Street Fayetteville, NY -- Tonight's
Fayetteville dance: we have a new surprise
guitar player! Jim MacWilliams lives south of the Susquehanna
river in Owego and is "flooded in" ... we are going to miss
Jim! But the surprise
guest is
a fantastic guitar player better known (at least to me!) for his dance
calling. Here is a big
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Sun
Sep 04 2011 ITHACA NY -- The band is reserved for a
private party.
We are playing
music for
a wedding with contra dancing and
lots of waltzes near Ithaca
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Fri
Aug 05 2011 - ITHACA
NY - NOTE
VENUE CHANGE! NO’Shanigans
will play as Ted’s Big Birthday Band! It’s a barn dance in a
special location with special musician line-up: Tim Ball (fiddle), Hope Grietzer
(fiddle), Mike Ludgate
(mandolin), Jim
MacWilliams
(guitar) w/ guest Martha
Carpenter (flute & feet)! To get there: GoogleMap
“814 Comfort Road Ithaca NY” Schedule: 6:00 pm Potluck Dinner,
7:00 pm Open Waltz Jam, 8:00 pm Contras w/ the NO’Shanigans
birthday band. This
is a Barn Dance at Pam and Ted’s new rural property! Wear
sneakers, bring a dish to pass and utensils, bring battery lanterns.
There is no running water. Arrive early, this will be lots of fun!
Admission: FREE
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Fri July 8 2011 SYRACUSE
NY -- O'Shanigans!
"Come see caller Paul Wilde who is visiting from
Providence, Rhode Island;
irresistible music by the O'Shanigans."
Tim,
Mike and Phil for
a contra
dance. This will be a FUN DANCE! More
details: 8:00 - 11:00 pm Friday July 8th at The United Church of
Fayetteville on 310 E. Genesee Street in Fayetteville, NY. Sponsored by
Syracuse Country Dancers! Admission $7- Don't miss this dance! This is
an authentic old New England style venue with a newly refinished dance
floor! Bring clean shoes, a water bottle and YOUR FRIENDS! All dances
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Sat
Jun 18 12-3 pm -- Phil,
Tim and Mike
performing under the band name
"Spektakel"
for the
Scandinavian Festival at Swedish Hill Winery ."Spektakel" is the Swedish
word for shenanigans the
dubious but humorous origin of our band name. More about the
Scandinavian Festival at
Swedish Hill from their website: "Be
Swedish for a Day! Enjoy Scandinavian food(fee for
food), music and unique arts & craft exhibitors while dancing
around our Maypole! Many wine specials as well." [
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Fri May 27 2011 --
ITHACA NY -- Celebrate the end of the semester
with an O'Shanigans
dance
party with Tim,
Mike
and Phil along with special guest Martha
Carpenter (flute
and feet) at
Bethel Grove
Community Center. Local favorite and funtastic Nancy
Spero
will be calling the dances at 1825 Slaterville Road (Rt
79
about 4 miles east
of Ithaca) Ithaca NY from 8-11 pm. Admission $6- Sponsored by: TCCD -
Tompkins County
Country. Tim Ball (fiddle), Phil Robinson (guitar), Mike Ludgate
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Fri May 06 2011 -- OSWEGO NY
(North by Lake Ontario!) -- NO'Shanigans
has been invited to perform at the Ontario
Center for Performing Arts in Oswego NY for a contra
dance at this great venue. 7:30-10:30 pm. David Smukler is
calling the dances! Margaret
Ball (fiddle), Phil
Robinson (guitar), Mike
Ludgate (mandolin). [ O'SHANIGANS
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Thu
Apr 28 -- ITHACA NY -- Contra
Dance "Spring
Fling" Fundraiser!! [ open to all;
probably lots of beginners! ] for Animal
Science trip
abroad 8-11
pm.
Caller Ted Crane. The Cornell Dairy Spanish Club will be hosting a
FUNDRAISING contra dance with live music by the NO'Shanigans (Margaret
Ball on fiddle, Mike on mandolin, Phil on guitar) and dances called and
taught by Ted Crane! Beginners are especially welcomed to this event.
ALL DANCES TAUGHT. Funds will go to an overseas trip for the Spanish
Class. ¡Please come and help us make this event even better
than
last year! Cornell Livestock Pavillion 48 Judd Falls Road Ithaca, NY
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Sat Apr 30
-- ITHACA NY -- O'Shanigans
with Tim,
Phil and
Mike at Risley
Hall
on Cornell Campus, Sat April 30th from 3-5
pm for their "Spring
Faire". This is a contra and square dance with Casey Carr calling
the dances. Open to the general Cornell Community: limited to college
age participants. Spring Faire at Risley Hall:
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Fri APR 15 -- PINE LAKE CAMPUS
Hartwick College -- O'Shanigans will be playing high
energy dance tunes with Peter Blue calling
the dances from 8-11 pm at 1894 Charlotte
Creek Road in Davenport NY in the Vaudevillian Building. Don't miss
this celebration of the roots of New England folk dance! This is an
authentic Old New England style venue! Bring clean shoes, a water
bottle and YOUR FRIENDS! All dances taught, No partner needed.
Admission: This event is FREE for Hartwick students, all others a
donation of $5-10 dollars would be terrific to support future events
like this. PARKING: Please park in the parking lot by Robertson Lodge,
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Sat Apr 16
2011 ITHACA NY -- Fiddlehead Frolic
presented by Hands Four Dancers of Ithaca. O'Shanigans has been
invited
to play at this awesome all day dance festival! Time: Noon-11:00 pm.
Location: Boynton Middle School 1601 North Cayuga Street Ithaca, NY.
The headliner band is Elixer with Nils
Friedland
calling. Elixir
performs tightly
crafted
music drawing on a wide range of styles and evoking a variety of moods.
Elegant melodies evolve into raucous dixieland horn riffs; transcendent
harmonies, playful improvisations, and rock, swing and reggae-inspired
rhythms weave in and out of traditional and original Irish, French
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Sun
Apr 17
2011 -- OWEGO NY (South
near Binghamton!) --
O'Shanigans at Ahwaga! The
very personable TBA
from Syracuse NY will be calling the dances! O'Shanigans visit the
Southern Tier for a Contra Dance at Tioga Trails Cafe at 50 Lake Street
in Owego NY from 4-7 pm. Admission $7- Bring clean shoes, a water
bottle and YOUR FRIENDS! All dances taught, No partner needed.
O'Shanigans is Tim Ball on fiddle, Mike Ludgate on mandolin and tenor
banjo and Phil Robinson on guitar. [ BAND
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Tue
Aor 12 -- ITHACA -- Tim and Mike at DeWitt Middle School for
their
history class's "old home days". With caller Casey Carr teaching the
7th grade class about contra dancing in the old days. Here is a link to
Mr Pritz's class blog [ here
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day.
Fri Mar 25 2011 --
ITHACA NY -- O'Shanigans dance
party at Bethel Grove. The high
energy O'Shanigans are back with Tim,
Mike
and Phil at
Bethel Grove
Community Center with Ted
Crane
calling w/ guest caller Megan
Ludgate
at
1825 Slaterville Road (Rt
79
about 4 miles east
of Ithaca) Ithaca NY from 8-11 pm. Admission $6- Sponsored by: TCCD -
Tompkins County
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