updated 9/24/26
A useful way to see all the dances in the Bay Area in one glance is this combined calendar:
https://sites.google.com/view/bacds/dances
(if you want to simplify the view, you can select the calendar icon next to the word "Month" and deselect some of the entries - e.g. deselecting Bay Area Irish Dancing will remove all the Irish dances from your view)
You can always find this calendar by going to bacds.org and selecting the entry All contra, English, traditional square & Irish dances in the Bay Area in the Calendars dropdown menu.
For Cajun & Zyedeco, check https://sfczcalendar.com/.
Ashkenaz (Berkeley) often has Cajun/Zydeco, Balkan, Latin, and other types of dancing.
For Scottish country dancing, see https://rscds-sf.org/classes/ and https://rscds-sf.org/calendar/.
Additional links are available at https://bacds.org/links/.
There is a SF Bay Contra Discord server that is useful for planning carpools & meeting for meals before, various discussions, etc.
Traffic Alert for folks coming from or through San Francisco during the weekend previous to Fall Frolick: US 101 in San Francisco - all soutbound lanes and one northbound lane closed from Friday November 6, 11 pm. to Monday November 9, 6 a.m.
Fri-Sun Nov 6-Nov 8
Foggy Moon Contra Dance Weekend, Monterey
Gaye Fifer; Isaac Banner; Topspin; Playing with Fyre
Sunday night dance open to the public.
Fri Nov 6
7:30pm Palo Alto English
Sat Nov 7
7pm Circle Left contra Oakland
Rodney Miller, Paul Kotapish, Daniel Steinberg
7:30pm As Meigas - Galician Folk Music, Hillside Club Berkeley. Dance will be taught and led by Adrienne Simpson. Dance lesson at 6:45pm.
Sun Nov 8
2:30pm-5pm San Jose English
Caller: Bruce Herbold; Band: Mary Tabor, Robin Lockner, William Allen
3pm Santa Cruz contra - suggest checking their website, as Santa Cruz is close to Monterey, so they may defer to the Foggy Moon weekend event.
4pm No Hayward contra (because of Foggy Moon)
6pm Set dancing O'Reilly's Pub SF
Mon Nov 9
Irish Céilí dance, Starry Plough Berkeley
Tues Nov 10
7pm-9:30pm Improper English, Berkeley (masks required)
Wed Nov 11
7:45pm Berkeley English
7:30pm SF contra
8pm-10pm Irish set dancing lessons Ireland's 32 SF
Thurs Nov 12
8:30pm Irish set dancing Plough & Stars SF
AFTER
Mon Nov 16
Irish Céilí dance, Starry Plough Berkeley
Tues Nov 17
Peninsula (Palo Alto) English
Rachel Pusey,Dilip Sequeira
Wed Nov 18
8pm Berkeley contra
Tanya Merchant with music by Community Band
8pm-10pm Irish set dancing lessons Ireland's 32 SF
Thurs Nov 19
8:30pm Irish set dancing Plough & Stars SF
Nov 20-22
Rose City Dance-a-Rama Portland OR
Fri Nov 20
8pm East Bay Square Dance, Berkeley
Jordan Ruyle with music by Big Chimney Barn Dance: Danny Consenstein, Carter Bancroft, Nate Williamson, Jay Marvin, Rachel Overby
Sat Nov 21
6:30pm-10pm Monterey contra
7pm-10pm Santa Rosa contra
Celia Ramsay, Magic Reelism (David Wright, Susan Jones, Cheryl McKinney, Del Eckels)
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Mon 11/9/26 9am-12pm East Bay Parks Monday Birding Radke Martinez Shoreline
Mon 11/16/26 9am-12pm East Bay Parks Monday Birding Vollmer Peak (Tilden)
Tom Spittler often organizes an excursion in the north bay on the Monday after the weekend.