Danse Cafe

• Trad

Danse Cafe performs traditional dance music from Brittany and the Auvergne for listening and dancing. The group came together at workshops, camps, performances, and through a common love of the beautiful, captivating french and breton traditional dance music.  They play an variety of instruments, some indigenous to France and Brittany, some not – fiddle, guitar, banjo, accordion, clarinet, mandolin, hurdy gurdy, and various percussive and rhythmic accents. Every year, the band hosts FESTIBAL, a French and Breton music dance workshop and party, in western Massachusetts. Danse Cafe is:

Cynthia Thomas – fiddle
Doug Feeney – guitar, banjo
Peter Stolley – accordion
Thomas Gajewski – clarinet, mandolin