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The Ceilidh Dance Benefit is a lively community fundraiser featuring traditional Celtic music by The Sunroom Sessions, dancing, and a welcoming atmosphere for all ages and experience levels. Guests can enjoy live music and participate in easy-to-follow group dances led by a caller, while coming together to support a meaningful cause. It’s a fun, social evening that combines great music, dancing, and community spirit.

Proceeds will support a program in Havana providing essential care to 75 elders who have no other support system to rely on and are suffering especially badly under the current blockade. This program was suggested to Colin (a member of The Sunroom Sessions) by a Cuban musician friend that he made in Havana in 2019 as a place where the money raised will directly and quickly help people in great need. It is run by Colin’s friend’s pastor at the International Christian Community in Havana, who started it 20 years ago in an effort to fill in the support system gaps for as many elders in their community as possible. There are five trained caregivers who make (at least) weekly house visits to the elders in their care, buy and bring them food, medicine, and other essentials, provide transportation, offer companionship, check in on their mental and physical well-being, and more. Funds raised will help support this work and close a gap in the program’s $21,000 minimum budget for 2026.

For more details on this program and to donate, visit https://colincotter.com/cuba-donation/

Tickets will be a sliding scale $10-30 at the door. This is a fundraiser and Bay Area money goes a *long* way in Cuba, so please contribute what you can to the cause!