Welcome to Dave Wiesler's home page. Dave is one of the nation's
premier pianists for country dances and various forms of ballroom dance.
May, 2010 I've finished a couple of new CDs in the last year. In June, after nearly three years of sporadic work, intercalated into an increasingly busy family schedule, I finished the Scottish dance CD I'd been working on with fiddler Mara Shea. The recording is called Heather Hills, and it features many of my tunes. Discs are now available for order from my website, as well as CD Baby and TAC Sound. And in late December, the Avant Gardeners finished our third CD, Goats in the Garden (I'm on about half of this one). That disc is also available for mail order from me or from Laura Light. Still plugging away on another Scottish dance recording (a live one with Thistle House from three years ago), and after that's over I may finally have some time to look into another solo recording, long overdue (Cracks and Shadows is approaching ten years old!).
See my discography page for more information.
Upcoming highlights from my calendar include:
- June 11-13: Chicago Branch Scottish weekend at Beloit, WI, with Mara Shea
- Aug 7-14: Pinewoods (MA) English-American week
- Aug 15-22: Timber Ridge (WV) CDSS week
- Sep 3-6: Northwest Passage, Portland, OR, dance weekend, with Goldcrest
- Sep 24-26: Scottish Weekend at Timber Ridge Camp
- Oct 16: Baltimore Playford Ball with Goldcrest
- Nov 5-7: Gainesville, FL, Scottish dance weekend with Mara Shea
- Dec 31: Delaware Valley Hogmanay Ball, with Laura Risk and David Knight
- Feb 18-21, 2011: Ski-Dance Weekend, western PA, with Avant Gardeners
- Feb 25-27, 2011: Ann Arbor, MI, Dawn Dance Weekend, with Goldcrest
- March 25-26, 2011: Nashville, TN, English country dance weekend with Goldcrest