The Friends of Greenfield Dance supports traditional dance and music opportunities in Greenfield, MA.
Welcome to the dance community at the Guiding Star Grange. Here, we strive to accept each other’s differences while celebrating our mutual love of dance, music, community and friendship. We provide a platform of dialogue and support for all dance organizers in Greenfield and we support opportunities to strength our dance community through workshops and dances. Learn more about us.
Events hosted by Friends of Greenfield Dance (contra prom, pub sing, and fall frolic) use this safety policy. Different dances in Greenfield Mass use different policies or no policy at the organizer’s discretion.
Come to a dance! Dances at the Guiding Star Grange in Greenfield are run by eight different dance organizers who offer a variety of contra dances each month, on Friday and Saturday evenings. Occasional workshops are offered through the year, and special dances are held on selected Sundays.
Complete dance information is available by checking the Guiding Star Grange Calendar of Events. An overview of all monthly dances in Greenfield is also available for download (PDF, on Facebook (Greenfield Contra Dance is Awesome and other dance series pages) and PVCD via email.
The Friends of Greenfield Dance Board of Directors have scheduled our Annual Meeting for Monday, May 19, at 6:45 PM via Zoom (see link below). We value your input and urge you to attend. Instructions on accessing the virtual meeting and the meeting agenda are listed below.
Discussion items:
Questions under vote:Voting will take place at the Zoom meeting (If you will not be attending the meeting and wish to vote, you can submit your votes via email to secretaryofthefriends@
- Chris Culpepper: eligible for first three-year term (Yes/No)
- Debbie Arch: eligible for first three year term after serving a one year term (Yes/No)
- Monya Relles: eligible for second three-year term (Yes/No)
Instructions to access Zoom meetingYou can join the Zoom meeting from a computer (video or just audio) or from any telephone (audio). If joining by computer, click this link:https://zoom.us/j/8545976827?
Greenfield Covid 19 Policy:
PLEASE NOTE: Friends of Greenfield Dance does not have any power in changing individual dance series’ Covid policies.
To find the Covid-19 Policies of all dance series hosted at the grange, go to this table. <https://tinyurl.com/covid19-gsg-dances>
Due to the concerns of our community that include immunocompromised individuals, intergenerational folks, and at-risk workers, the Friends of Greenfield Dance reserve the right at any given time to set COVID policies for FGD events (including prom, fall frolic, or family dances but not regular Friday or Saturday series dances) based on but not limited to: community exposure, wastewater numbers indicating the number of COVID cases in Greenfield, and environmental variables.
–Friends of Greenfield Dance Board 2/14/24
FGD Events
May182025
Pub(lic) Sing with Amanda Whitman
2:30-4:30pm
Come sing along with us! No experience necessary. Bring your own songs, or just sing along!
May192025
FGD Annual Meeting
Join us for our annual FGD meeting! Discussion items: Here are the minutes from the 2024 Annual Meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ttmG3MI-a2fvMfxVVbiVWLasMCKaIpYLlpgqUiNDbmw/edit?usp=sharing Here is our safety and behavior policy, which you’re welcome to review. This item will not be up for vote, but is something FGD has accomplished in the past year. http://www.friendsofgreenfielddance.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/FGD-Safety-and-Behavior-Procedure.pdf Questions under vote:… (Read more…)