Terpsichore

We’re excited to announce our first inside house concert in more than two years!

On Friday, April 22nd at 7:30pm, we’ll welcome Terpsichore, featuring pianist Liz Donaldson and Scottish Fiddler Elke Baker for an exciting house concert while they’re in town for the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society’s Grand Ball!

The recommended donation is $20. Doors will open at 7:00pm.

For this concert, we’ll be following the Covid-19 safety protocols for the RSCDS. We will be checking vaccination status at the door and requiring masks. Unless it’s pouring rain or below freezing, we’ll also be keeping some windows open to allow for improved ventilation. (As we don’t have the air handling you’ll find at Tapestry Folkdance Center!)

We want everybody to have a good time and to feel safe, so details may change between now and the concert. We’ll keep you notified here and by email!

Cancellation Policy

We’re going to use the Twin Cities wastewater monitoring as our guideline for whether to move ahead with the concert. If wastewater monitoring shows more than 100M copies per person per day for two days or more prior to the concert, the concert will be cancelled for safety reasons.

About Terpsichore

Liz Donaldson plays piano and accordion. She is known for her innovative back-up style incorporating exciting rhythms, textures, and harmony lines in her music. In addition to playing for Scottish, English and American contra dances, Liz teaches all these styles, and dances, too! She is a member of Terpsichore, Waverley Station, and The New Hip Trio. Her recordings include: A Dancer’s Best Friend (recently released), Caledonian Muse, Terpsichore, Waverley Station: First Stop!, Memories of Scottish Weekend (1998) and More Memories of Scottish Weekend (’02), as well as English Echoes: English Country Dance Favorites (2006) and now English Echoes II: More English Country Dance Favorites (2018). Liz also has compiled two books of Scottish tune medleys. She has taught and played at numerous dance weekends and led music workshops including at Scottish Weekend, Pinewoods, and Asilomar, and has performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Liz is a 2017 recipient of the Royal Scottish Country Dance’s Scroll of Honor for her contributions to the dance and music of Scotland.

U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion Elke Baker has played all over North America and in places as far-flung as Japan, West Africa, and Scotland, as well at The Birchmere (with Ken Kolodner) and the Kennedy Center in her hometown of Washington, D.C. Elke is a faculty member at the Washington Conservatory of Music, where she teaches history and performance of Celtic music. She brings a scholar’s depth of knowledge and an extremely engaging manner to her performances, as well as an intimate knowledge of just what makes people want to dance.  Elke’s Scottish country dance recordings, Terpsichore, Caledonian Muse, and A Dancer’s Best Friend feature favorite dances married to beautifully crafted medleys to create a feast for the ears as well as the feet. Elke has released two concert recordings to an enthusiastic reception.  The Washington Post praised Glenelg for ” the rhythmic energy and deep emotions that Baker generates with her bow….Baker’s fiddle nearly throws off sparks,” while Celtic Beat called Over the Border “a CD of rare delight, precise technical skill, and fullness of soul,” and it was featured in the soundtrack of The Boyhood of John Muir, nationally broadcast on PBS television.