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2009 Guest Caller for the Alaska Folk Festival

About the Caller. . .

Gordy grew up in Portland, Oregon surrounded by music. He was introduced to contradance music in the 1980s while living in Anchorage. Since returning to Portland in 1989 to go to graduate school he has become involved with both the Portland Folk Music Society and the Portland County Dance Community. He plays fiddle, piano, and tin whistle in two Portland contradance bands, Full Moon and Tunestruck. He self-published a book of original reels, jigs and waltzes called After Midnite in 2005, and has tunes in both volumes of the Portland Collection. Gordy attended his first calling workshop at the Festival of American Fiddletunes in 1994, and became a regular contradance caller in 1999. He has written a number of dances as well.

Gordy also sings and plays guitar, banjo, fiddle and mandola with his folk duo Shanghaied on the Willamette. The duo was formed in 1992 and has released three recordings of primarily maritime folk music, with a fourth in progress.

Gordy and his wife Eliza Romick live in Portland, and he currently works as a long-range planner for Clark County, Washington in Vancouver.