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 Annual Fall Frolic and Membership Drive
Mark your calendars for November 22nd, 2025!
Afternoon Contra Dance 2:30-5:30 pm
Calling: Emily Rush and Caller Showcase participants
Music: Here on the Hill (Tory Horner and Rose Powell)
Dinner Break 5:30-7:00 pm
Evening Blacklight Contra Dance 7:00-10:00 pm
Calling: Emily Rush
Music: provided by Emily Rush. Check out her Rushfest-style events at https://www.rushfestcontra.com/
Role terms will be Larks/Robins.
Admission, COVID policy, and membership information coming soon!
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
Nov222025
FDG Annual Fall Frolic and Membership Drive
2:30 - 7:30pm
Join FDG for our annual fall frolic and membership drive