IF YOU GOWhat: Chattaboogie.When: Today-Sunday.Where: Allemande Hall, 7400 Standifer Gap Road.Admission: $25 today, $35 Saturday, $20 Sunday;Phone: 706-937-4991.Email: registration@chattaboogie.com or info@chattaboogie.com.Website: www.contranooga.org.
Chattanooga Traditional Dance Society’s annual dance bash, Chattaboogie, gets under way tonight. Among those scheduled to perform at this weekend-long celebration are Perpetual e-Motion and Double Apex, two New England duos that specialize in techno contra music.
Registrants can take part in contra dances and waltzes. Saturday afternoon will be devoted to a pair of workshops.
* Perpetual e-Motion, based in Maine, has been lauded as a two-man orchestra that continues to innovate the art of traditional dance music. Ed Howe plays electric violin; John Cote accompanies on guitar, didgeridoo and foot percussion. The duo is returning after drawing rave reviews last year.
* Double Apex, of Boston, fuses the worlds of electronic and acoustic dance music, using fiddle, piano, synthesizers and samples to produce its sound. Members are Brendan Carey-Block on fiddle, sequencing and samples; and Julie Vallimont on piano, synths, sequencing and samples.