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 $15, 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 2025
September	Friday 5	The Bumditty Barndance Band	Soop Kisch C-U	PRC
September	Friday 19	Dangerous Contraband Sam Atkinson (fiddle), Henry Kraatz (fiddle), Stella Faux (fiddle), Beau Barber (mandolin), Tom Faux (guitar), Mike Atkinson (bass)	Gail Hintze Chillicothe	CMF
October 2025
October	2-4	17th 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. There will be a contra dance as well as other dance and music events. Check back later for details.
October	Saturday 11	TBA 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 at the Kalyx Center 454 E 1300 North Rd Monticello, IL Kalyx Center Map	Lo Peckman St. Louis	KAL
October	Friday 17	Acoustic Mayhem Laura Sleade, Ed Hawkes, Lyle Konigsberg & Sue Frankenberg Stunkie's Free-Fall Free-for-All: FREE admission to a dance for Bert Stunkard's Bert-day.	Jonathan Sivier Champaign	CMF
November 2025
November	Friday 7	Too Old To Be Controlled Claudia and Gary Kaufman & Dave Kuntz from Danvers and Bloomington-Normal	Keith Tuxhorn Springfield	PRC
November	Friday 21	Meadowhawk Amanda Ramey, Claire Johnson & Matt Turino	Miriam Larson C-U	CMF
November	Friday 28 to Sunday 30	Breaking Up Thanksgiving Dance weekend in the Chicago area.
December 2025
December	Friday 5	The Sangamon County Scheizhonkers	Wren Eisenhauer	PRC
December	Friday 19	Big Brandy	Kristi Emilsson C-U	CMF
2026
January	9-11	37th Annual Chambana Jan Jam Details TBA		PRC

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