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Dancers get to Toss the Possum at Martha Hope Cabin
Band entertains, jams with visitors at contra dance
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Deanna Palumbo and Carol Kraus listen as music fills the room at a Contra dance held Saturday at the Martha Hope Cabin on Prior Street in Gainesville. Attendees listened and danced along with music played by the band Toss the Possum. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Folks stopped by the Martha Hope Cabin on Prior Street in Gainesville Saturday to listen, dance and watch 23-year-old fiddling virtuoso Rob Zisette excitedly wield the instrument. The event offered visitors the chance to Contra dance — similar to square dancing, except instead of forming a square, couples dance in lines. Traveling family band Toss the Possum, of which Zisette is a member, provided the background music.