Dave Bartley

Dave Bartley plays guitar, mandolin, and several other stringed instruments. He has played many styles of music over the years and continues to range over several genres. Dave composes dance tunes, many of which may be found in the KGB Tune Dossier and KGB Tune Dossier, Volume 2. He also teaches guitar, mandolin, and cittern/bouzouki, and performs as a classical guitar soloist or can put together a band for weddings or other parties. Contact him at kgb@kgbmole.com for more information. For a long-winded biography see here. For a calendar of upcoming performances see below.

Dave plays in these bands, among others:

• KGB - One of the seminal avant garde contradance bands, since 1993, with Julie King and Claude Ginsburg.
• Bag o'Tricks and Tricky Brits - A contradance and English Country Dance band with Anita Anderson, Betsy Cooper and Sande Gillette.
• Ruby Slippers - Romantic dance music from the Swing Era.
• Rouge - French cafe and cabaret music featuring chanteuse Janet Rayor.
• Pangéo (part time) - Regional traditional music of Greece featuring Christos Govetas and Ruth Hunter.
• Pasatempo - Rebetika, the "Greek blues," dating from the 1920's, 30's, and 40's.
• Gina Salá Ensemble - Songs from a lot of everywhere (she sings in 23 languages, and could be adding another one right now)
• Valse Café Orchestra - Viennese waltzes and a variety of other couple dance music.

Discography:

KGB has three recordings available: Contraintelligence, Volga Notions and In from the Cold.

Tricky Brits/Bag o'Tricks have an eponymous recording on CD.

Pasatempo has an eponymous recording on CD.

 

Dave also has played on recordings by Shira Kammen, Rouge, Eric Tingstad, and Cathie Whitesides, among others.

News and Calendar

Here is a schedule of Dave's upcoming gigs (updated May 4, 2008).

The events are in Seattle, Washington, USA unless otherwise noted.

• May 8, KGB plays for the Lake City Community Contradance, Marlin Prowell calling
• May 9, Dave and Joe Bowbeer play for an English Dance at the University Friends Center, Charlene Kern calling
• May 10, KGB plays for a 30th anniversary, 12 hour, contradance in Eugene, OR, with Jigsaw and The Nettles, David Kaynor, Laura Mé Smith, and Woody Lane calling
• May 11, KGB plays for a Waltz Eclectic dance, Portland, OR
• May 18, Valse Café Orchestra plays for a tea dance at the Century Ballroom
• May 23-26, the unparalleled Northwest Folklife Festival:
  • May 23, Dave joins Sky Blue play for swing dancing at the Center House Court, 9:10PM - 9:50PM
  • May 24, Dave, Deb Kirkland, and Julie King play waltzes at the Fisher Pavilion, 7:10PM - 8:00PM
  • May 24, Valse Café Orchestra play waltzes at the Fisher Pavilion, 8:10PM - 8:50PM
  • May 25, Gina Salá Ensemble plays at the Fountain Lawn Stage, 5:30PM - 6:05PM

• June 6, Tricky Brits play for an English Dance at the University Friends Center, caller TBA
• June 7, KGB plays for the Bellingham Ferry Boat Dance , Maureen Collier calling
• June 12, the Kingston Quartet (Dave, Anita Anderson, Betsy Cooper, Claude Ginsburg play for the Lake City Community Contradance, Adina Gordon calling
• June 13, KGB plays for the Emerald City Contradance, Adina Gordon calling
• June 14, Valse Café Orchestra plays for a dance for Northwest Dance Network at the Leif Erikson Ballroom

• July 9, Rouge plays at the Kent Centennial Center, Kent, WA
• July 12, Rouge plays at the Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge, WA
• July 13, KGB plays for a couple dance for Dance for Joy! at the Fremont Abbey
• July 31, Rouge plays in Sandpoint, ID (details to come later)

• August 1, Rouge plays at Art on the Green, Coeur d'Alene , ID (details to come later)
• August 7, Rouge plays at Luther Burbank Park, Mercer Island, WA
• August 21, KGB plays for Dancing 'till Dusk at Freeway Park

• September 10, Gina Salá Ensemble plays at the Triple Door
• September 12-14 , KGB plays for the Bear Hug Festival, Flathead Lake, MT

• October 3-5, Dave is among the staff for CD*NY's Whirligig English Country Dance weekend, Hopewell Junction, NY

• November 14-22 , KGB tours the Southeast US:
  • November 14-16 , the Atlanta (contradance) Festival, Atlanta, GA, Seth Tepfer calling
  • November 17, contradance at the Grey Eagle, Asheville, NC, Adina Gordon calling
  • November 18, contradance in Winston-Salem, NC, caller TBA
  • November 20, contradance, Asheville, NC, Beth Molaro calling
  • November 21, contradance in Nashville, TN, caller TBA
  • November 22, contradance in Chattanooga, TN, caller TBA

• December 12, Sky Blue plays for a swing dance at Sonny Newman's Dance Hall

You can e-mail Dave at kgb@kgbmole.com.