Dave Bartley

Dave Bartley plays guitar, mandolin, cittern, and several other stringed instruments. He has played many styles of music over the years and continues to range over several genres. He has performed throughout the US and Canada, and in England, Australia, France and Greece. It is difficult to count the number of bands in which he plays.

Dave has composed over 300 dance tunes. A waltz he wrote and KGB recorded, The Clock Stopped, is used to teach cross-step waltz in much of the US and other parts of the world. A reel he wrote, Vladi on the Trans-Siberian, seems to be popping up at dances and jam sessions all over the place, including on five recordings (see below).

Find Dave's upcoming gigs here.
Dave plays in these bands and on these recordings.
Dave's biography is here.
Contact him for information or bookings.

Dave with cittern
Photo by Paul Bestock
Avant Gardeners Asheville

News


  • Calendar updated on the March 27, 2024

Calendar

March

April

  • Fri, Apr 5, 7:30pm, Fred Nussbaum, Kimberly McKittrick, Anita Anderson and Dave play for an English Country Dance, Seattle, Nan Evans calling
  • Sat, Apr 13, 7:00pm, Wergleyburg (Terry Wergeland, Claude Ginsburg, and Dave) plays for the Vancouver English Ball, Vancouver, BC, Joanna Reiner, dancing master
  • Fri, Apr 26, 7:30pm, Ginsu (Claude Ginsburg, Marni Rachmiel, and Dave) plays for the Emerald City contra dance, Seattle, WA, Morna Leonard calling

May

June

Later in 2024

  • Fri, Sep 6 - Sun, Sep 8, Contra Sutra plays for the Bear Hug Festival, Flathead Lake, MT, with Swiftcurrent, Susan Petrick, and Christa Torrens
  • Fri, Sep 27 - Sun, Sep 29, Contra Sutra plays for Cascade Contras, Springfield, OR, with The Engine Room, Cis Hinkle, and Laurel Thomas

Dave is a member of these bands

  • KGB - One of the seminal avant garde contra dance bands, together since 1993, with Julie King and Claude Ginsburg. KGB also has played for English Country Dance (as MI-5).
  • Keltoi, traditional music of Scotland and Ireland
  • Contra Sutra - An exciting contra dance band with Marni Rachmiel, Ryan McKasson or Brandon Vance, and a elite percussionist selected from a binder full of percussionists.
  • Roguery - A versatile English (and contra) dance band with Anita Anderson, Shira Kammen, and Jim Oakden.
  • Bag o'Tricks (aka Tricky Brits) - A contra dance and English Country Dance band with Anita Anderson, Betsy Cooper and Sande Gillette.
  • Joy Street (formerly Valse Café) Orchestra - Viennese waltzes and other ballroom dance music from latin to swing.
  • Bands with fiddler Rodney Miller: SPIN with Anita Anderson; The Intoxicators with Marni Rachmiel.
  • Dave plays occasionally with Rouge, French cafe music featuring chanteuse extraordinaire Elle Rayor
  • The Irish Experience, electric Celtic music
  • Bands with other people and other names appear from time to time (see my schedule for those coming up).
 
Photo by Paul Bestock

Selected discography

From bands Dave is in:

Dave plays on these:

These include compositions of Dave's:

BoT Chippenham

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