We generally hold dances on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of each month. There are occasional exceptions to this rule with dances on other Fridays or Saturdays. The specific dates may depend on the scheduling of holidays and other events. All dances start at 8 P.M. and go to 11 P.M. unless otherwise noted. Most dances will be held at the Phillips Recreation Center, 505 W.Stoughton, and the Channing-Murray Foundation, 1209 W. Oregon, both in Urbana. Admission for most dances is on a sliding scale from $5 to $20, pay what you feel is right. A higher fee may be charged for special events.

If you are going to be traveling this fall you might want to check out some of the dance groups elsewhere in the country, or some of the dance weekends this fall.

Key to the location codes

MONTH	DAY	BAND(S)	CALLER(S)	LOC
September 2026
September	Friday 4	Capital City Quicksteppers Theme: Skirts to honor Annie Francis	Miriam Larson C-U	PRC
September	Friday 19	Open Band with Blair, Dorian and Mike Theme: Red+Black to honor Jenny Barrett	Keith Tuxhorn Springfield	CMF
October 2026
October	Friday 2	Acoustic Mayhem Laura Sleade, Ed Hawkes, Lyle Konigsberg & Sue Frankenberg Long skirts & crazy t-shirts for Stunkie's Free-Fall Free-for-All: FREE admission to a dance for Bert Stunkard's Bert-day.	Lo Peckman St. Louis	PRC
October	8-11	18th Annual Champaign-Urbana Folk and Roots Festival Come out for three days of music, dance, storytelling and hands-on fun. See the festival website for more information and a schedule.
October	Friday 9	Contra Dance With The Mean Lids Miriam Larson, Ben Smith & Matt Turino Part of the Folk and Roots Festival	Georges Augustin Chicago	PRC
October	Sunday 11	Contra Dance With The Mean Lids Miriam Larson, Ben Smith & Matt Turino At a special time, 11 am to 2 pm Part of the Folk and Roots Festival	Georges Augustin Chicago	PRC
October	Saturday 17	The Cat Came Back Brenda Koenig, Claudia Kaufman, Gary kaufman, Jordan Wankoff & Mike Atkinson Dance, potluck and bonfire 5:00 pm - Potluck prior to the dance. 7:30 pm - Dancing 9:00 pm - Big bonfire, followed by more dancing 9:45 pm - More dancing Theme: Plaid at the Kalyx Center 454 E 1300 North Rd Monticello, IL Kalyx Center Map	Kyla Wargel	KAL
November 2026
November	Friday 6	Meadowhawk Amanda Ramey, Claire Johnson & Matt Turino Theme: Favorite Literary Character	Kristi Emilsson C-U	PRC
November	Friday 20	The Young and the Fretless Tom Bassett, Lyle Konigsberg, Joe Nierenberger & Rebecca Grosser Theme: Fruit & Veggies	Gail Hintze Chillicothe	CMF
November	Friday 27 to Sunday 29	Breaking Up Thanksgiving Dance weekend in the Chicago area.
December 2026
December	Friday 4	Too Old To Be Controlled Claudia and Gary Kaufman, Dan Liechty & Mike Atkinson Theme: Tie Dye	soop kish C-U	PRC
December	Friday 18	Euphor Theme: Space	Jonathan Sivier Champaign	CMF
2027
January	8-10	37th Annual Chambana Jan Jam Band Turnip The Beet Caller Callie Allison		PRC

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