BOTMC Family Dance

Doors / Social Dancing at 11AM The Manning Mud Stompers are a big group of exceptional young musicians: Daisy Caire, Natalie Caton, Nikolai Davis, Helen Feeney, Jesse Fichman, Iola Gravois, Clio Levy-Tongate, Jasper Manning, Jayna Manning, Bodie Oakley, and Noah Steele are all students (or former students) at Berkeley’s Manning Music. The Janine Smith experience is what you get when you cross a howdy-ma’am-BBQ-and-beans Honky Tonk with Zoom dancing and sprinkle on some twinkly lights for sass. She loves calling FUN dances, squares, circles, longways sets, heck maybe a couple of Singing Squares, too. Her teaching is clear and to-the-point, though she has been known to goof around a bit. She’s one of the “Hot Square Babes,” a quintet of female callers who threw a monthly Square Dance Party in the DC area from 2004-2018, a founding member of the DC Square Dance Collective (2011) , and an organizer of the DC/Baltimore area annual Dare to Be Square Weekend.