Please plan to join us for our semiannual Presidents, Callers, Cuers & Federation Leadership virtual meeting scheduled for Thursday, June 11th at 7pm. We hope you will join us; it is the perfect forum to openly discuss challenges and opportunities for our clubs, callers, cuers and the Federation.

We want to highlight some special dances coming up this summer and hope to see you on the dance floor:

Saturday June 6th Fulton Shirts N Skirts are sponsoring the 13th Annual Elaine Eno Memorial Dance from 1-8pm at the Fulton Municipal Bldg., 141 South First St, Fulton NY. All proceeds will be donated to the ALS Association.

Friday, June 12th Federation’s Free Friday Night Dance from 6:30-8:30 pm at Perinton Community Center 1350 Turk Hill Rd, Fairport, NY 14450. We are hosting an amateur calling/cueing night along with our callers: Mike Callahan and Jim Gotta. We will have a 50/50 raffle, limited quantities of Dangle Fun Bars, and special America 250 Dangles. Clothing racks and tables will be set up for donated western attire available for free to our dancers. Free admission to all WNYF Club members.

Monday, June 22, 2026 Greece Historical Society’s Annual Strawberry Festival Square Dance Demo is from 4-7 pm at Greece Town Hall Pavilion, 1 Vince Tofany Blvd, Rochester NY 14612. Mike Callahan calling demos at 5 & 6pm. Demo dancers admitted free. If you want to enjoy the desserts, you will need to pay admission. Estimated annual attendance 500.

Sunday, July 19th WNYF & Cloverleaf Squares Co-Sponsored Summer Dance at the Henrietta Fire Hall. Federation is subsidizing the guest fee by $2 per person for each guest that is a WNYF Club member so everyone pays $5 for this dance. Mike Callahan is calling and Alice Bubel cueing. Mainstream 7-9 pm.

Saturday or Sunday August 15-16 WNYF Square Dance Demo at Genesee Country Village & Museum (GCVM) Fiddlers Fair, 1410 Flint Rd, Mumford NY 14511. Mike Callahan calling 1 hour demo. Demo day and time TBD. Limited to 25 volunteer dancers for this demo. Volunteer dancers given free admission to GCVM. Square Dance attire is required. Two other dance groups will be dancing that weekend also.

Sunday, August 22nd Cayuga Cut-Ups 65th Anniversary Steak Roast & Dance from 12 noon to 4 pm in Vince’s Park Pavilion in Seneca Falls. Featuring Callers Ron Brown and Mike Callahan, and Cuer Alice Bubel. Dinner at 12 noon. Dance 1-4pm. Dinner & Dance $25 RSVP. Dance only $10.

Fri 9/18/26 - Sun 9/20/26 Penn Yan Friendship Squares Watkins Glen Square & Round Dance Weekend Clute Memorial Park Community Center, 155 Clute Park Drive, Watkins Glen, NY. See flyer on WNYF website for more details.

Southern Tier Wheelers summer dances located at Campbell Campground route 415, Campbell, NY. June 12-14 Caller Gary Bubel and Cuer Alice Bubel. August 14-16 Caller Betsy Gotta and Cuer Roy Gotta. September 25-27 Caller Elaine Mikenas and Cuer Dennis Viscanti.

DOR 2026
The Federation’s 66th Annual Dance-O-Rama, (DOR 2026) was held on Saturday, May 2, 2026. We enjoyed dancing to Dave Eno and Gary & Alice Bubel from 1-5 pm at the Perinton Community Center. We had 191 dancers in attendance. We were happy to recognize 24 of our 36 2026 graduates during the Graduate Parade. The 2026 Daphne Norma Leadership Award is the highest honor awarded in our square dance community and recipients are chosen based on nominations submitted by our dancing community. Last year’s recipient, Dave Eno, presented to Lucy Pietrzykowski of Batavia Silver Stars. Lucy did an outstanding job bringing Batavia Silver Stars back to dancing after COVID and keeping the club continuing, despite the passing of their caller, Bill Ryan.

Thank you to our clubs who generously donated baskets for the DOR 2026. You did an amazing job this year. The basket raffle is so much fun and everyone seems to enjoy it. So many wonderful and unique items were in the baskets. We appreciate all the baskets our member clubs donated. The proceeds from the basket raffle are used by the Federation (WNYF) to host square dance demos, free summer dances for our WNYF Club members, Amateur Calling Dance, New Years Eve Dance, advertising and promotional grants for the clubs and calling school grants for our interested dancers.

Special thank you to everyone who participated in DOR, as volunteers, dancers, callers, cuers, etc. Without everyone’s efforts, DOR would not happen.

We encourage everyone to try to dance during the Summer of 2026. There are so many opportunities to dance with your friends. We hope to see you on the dance floor this summer!

Debbie and Jeff Blood