The Sebastopol Saucy Squares is a friendly Plus level club
with an active round dance program. They dance on Tuesdays in
their own dance hall, Wischemann Hall!
Mainstream Class – 6:30 - 8
Plus Squares – 8 - 9:30
The second tip of the night is an Advanced patter call followed
by a Plus level singing call. I cue single rounds between tips.
Fifth Tuesdays are pizza nights.
The Sebastopol Saucy Squares was founded in 1962, and several of its original members are still active in square dancing today. (Some were in school at the time!) The club's original caller was Joe Paul, a welder.
Joe's brother was a commercial fisherman who worked out of Bodega Bay, and Joe and his brother died at sea in a boating accident.
The club was inactive for a number of years, and then revived
when some former members asked Dave Wischemann to call for the
club. Under Dave's leadership, the club mobilized to become
one of the very few clubs anywhere to own its own hall! The
club members scrounged material from a couple of local tear-downs
and worked evenings and weekends to work on the building, constructed
on the site of an old city sewage field. They shoe-stringed
enough money to buy a truckload of furniture quality oak for
the dance floor, and worked on several expansions of the building
over the years. Wischemann Hall (named for Dave against his
wishes) has served as a great community resource for years,
hosting square dancing three nights a week, round dancing two
nights a week, childrens music and childrens dance most weekdays,
as well as a busy regular schedule of contra dances, English
Country Dancing, ballroom dancing, dance jams, concerts, and
other activities. The hall is also available to private parties
and organizations – contact
Deb Adams for rental information.
The Markwesterners were an Advanced club that met on Tuesdays
in Santa Rosa. When they shut down several years ago, their
remaining members joined the Saucy Squares in exchange for some
Advanced dancing in the evening's program.
DIRECTIONS TO WISCHEMANN HALL
460 Eddie Lane
Sebastopol
- Get on Highway #12.
- Assuming you're coming from Santa Rosa, and heading west,
make a right at the first stoplight in Sebastopol, Morris
St. (If you're coming from the west, make a left at the last
stoplight in town, Morris St.)
- Take Morris to the end (about three blocks worth).
- The road turns left and changes its name to Eddie Lane.
The square dance hall is on the right. You will have passed
three public halls on the turn, and the third is Wischemann
Hall.
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