Musicians
	Dancers love their musicians, and here are some musicians who love their dancers back.  This list is of bands in California who play tunes that are a century old (or more), to which you can do the waltz, the polka, and related vintage dances.  If you hear a good, dancey band not listed here do tell us about them.
	Name of Muscical Ensemble	Description
	Baguette Quartette	Accordion-based French café music, mostly quick, lively waltzes but also some tangoes and foxtrots
	Bangers and Mash	Strings, piano, and sometimes vocal or flute; slow to medium waltzes and polkas, and a large repertoire of English Country set dances
	Big Lou	Accordion, soloist or with a band; polka polka boing boing. and the occasional waltz or other
	Brassworks	All-brass band, needs no amplification; all tempos of waltzes and polkas, as well as a few set dances and misc 20th century ballroom dances
	Brave Combo	Insanity in the form of many polkas, waltzes, cha-chas, and other dances often with influences from around the world, sometimes humorou
	Karl Lebherz	Good old-fashioned oom-pa-pa band: accordion, tuba, saxophone, trumpet
	Stark Ravens	Those bouncy, rollicking people you heard at Dicken's Fair.  They're multi-talented so instruments vary
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