Here are the Callers and Cuers that will be entertaining you during the Festival. See their Pictures and Biographies in their own words.
Square Dance Callers….
Steve Noseck – Caller Coordinator
My calling career began in 1976 with a calling class from Bob Wright Sr. I became the caller for the Mavericks, the Issaquahs, and the Issaquah Braves. Having been a club caller for clubs in Central Puget Sound Council and Mount Baker Council, I have also been the featured caller at over 24 Council Dances over the years. Calling has taken me to 10 states and 13 cruises, the most recent 2024 “Track 2 to Banff”.
I am now the Club teacher for the Fidalgo Fogcutters Plus Club. Lessons are in Sedro-Woolley, WA, and
I call for A&C regroup the Advanced and Challenge Club.
I also call for the A/C regroup an Advanced and Challenge Club, Federated, and the only one in WA State.
I record on Riverboat Records, and I am a Co-Producer of EDGE Productions. We have 34 recordings. Square Dance Chairman for booking all Callers for the 2021 WA State Festival, as well as the future 2026 WA State Festival.
I have been a member of Callerlab for over 40 years and am the 2021 WA State Almon F. Parker Inspirational Award recipient.
I have 3 children: Christopher, Stefanie, and Scott.
I am now retired from work and reside in Sedro-Woolley, WA, with my wife Leslie, my absolute love, and Bella, our dog.
David Boggs
David is the 2025 Parker Award recipient. He calls for Tri-Cities Circulators (Plus) and The Huron Squares (remotely). David is the Lead Instructor for the Prairie Shufflers and the Resident Caller for the Yakima Gateswingers.
Leo Catt
Leo began dancing at the age of Seven with the Dance-A-Lots, Sociable Squares, and Sumner Stompers in the 70s and 80s. His calling career started as a class joke, doing a singing call at class graduation.
Now, Leo has been a Callerlab member since 2005. He has also Started 3 dance clubs: the Swingnuts (Sumner) Crazy 8’s (Ramona, CA) and most recently, a plus level version of the Crazy 8’s (Centralia). Currently, you can find Leo calling for the Jetsteppers (Kent), DoSiDos (Olympia), Crazy 8’s (Centralia) as well as festivals and guest dances around Washington.
Bryan Clark
Bryan started dancing 45 years ago and has been calling for 38. He calls from MS thru C1 and has called in all but 4 US states. As well as many places in Europe including Germany, Sweden, Slovakia, Denmark, Netherlands, England. Has also called in the Philippines. Competed in the Pacific Northwest Teen Square Dance Festival from 1981 thru 1990 and won the Senior calling championship. He is a member of Callerlab and does many presentations to educate callers.
Marc Dennistion
Marc Denniston, a retired Army veteran, began calling square dancing in early 2024. Known for leading Lesson Review sessions with Olympia Area Square Dance Inc., he has called Basic through Advanced levels. As a Club Caller and Instructor for the Flutterwheels, Marc has also guest called for several regional clubs. Outside of calling, Marc enjoys dancing (Basic through C2), reading, and running tabletop games.
Steve Dvorak
Steve Dvorak is a caller from Olympia, Washington, and a newer voice in the Pacific Northwest square dance community. By day he works in the tech industry and has spent over 20 years as a sound engineer for concerts and small venues—experience that carries into the dance hall. Steve regularly calls Basic and Mainstream, is growing into Plus, dances through Advanced, and has called guest tips for clubs around the region. He is grateful to Glenn Raiha for countless hours of mentoring.
Andy Garboden
Andy has been calling since 2006. He call for the Pi-R Squares (M/S), MVPs (Plus), and Roamin’ Tacomans (Plus). He travels throughout the state as a guest caller and has a weekend with Greg Weber at Kitsap in August.
Andy enjoys teaching and calling square dances along with teaching and leading Line Dancing. Andy has recorded with R&D Records.
Paul Gonseth
Paul has been calling since 2012. He taught square classes for many years. He also has guest called for clubs in eastern Washington.
Jay Henderson
Jay is a full time National Caller who started calling in 1959, and had his first cub in 1960. Jay is also an artist for Fine Tune Records and several other record labels. Jay lives in Emmett, Idaho
Bob Jarvis
Bob Jervis has been calling Advanced and C1 in the Pacific Northwest for over 20 years. In recent years he’s begun teaching C1 classes. He calls C1 workshops twice weekly in the greater Seattle area. He called for the first time at the Washington State Festival last year.
Lane Johnston
A relative “newcomer” as a caller, yet Lane has decades of square dance experience. He and his wife Gail moved (in stages) to Ocean Shores beginning in 2022. Having been longtime dancers and finding the city without its own square dance club, they founded the Clam Diggers Square Dance Club in 2024. Lane thoroughly enjoys teaching and encouraging people to learn how to square dance.
Additionally, Lane serves as the current President of the Square and Folk Dance Federation of Washinton State.
Brett Kappenman
Brett has been calling for over 40 years and currently calls for the Tahoma Twirlers of Sumner, Washington. He began dancing in 1977 and started calling in 1986. He has worked with numerous teen and adult clubs throughout the Pacific Northwest, including the Jeans-N-Queens, Shirts-N-Skirts, Mavericks, Rockin’ Teens, and Jacks and Jills.
He has served in a variety of leadership roles, including President and Treasurer of multiple clubs, Past President of Central Puget Sound Council, and currently serves as President of Rainier Council and Vice President of the Square and Folk Dance Federation of Washington. In 2024, he was honored as a recipient of the Jack Willison Award for his contributions to square dancing.
Brett has been the sound chairperson for multiple Washington State Square and Folk Dance Federation Festivals, including Redmond, Enumclaw, Everett, Puyallup, Suquamish, and Yakima, and returns again this year in Ocean Shores. Beyond the dance floor, he has performed in halftime shows for the Seattle Seahawks and Seattle SuperSonics, choreographed numerous youth exhibitions, and estimates he has taught over 500 kids to square dance while introducing thousands more to the activity
Janolyn Keller
Janolyn learned to square dance in 1979 in Redmond Oregon. Became the very first cuer for the Lebanon Square Circlers in 1983. Since then, she has been the club cuer for 4 additional clubs. In 2002, already being the cuer, she stepped into the vacancy to became the club caller for the Red Hot Twirlers in Chimacum, WA. Currently she is both the caller and cuer for the Strait Wheelers and the Rhody O’s on the Olympic Peninsula. She loves dancing, teaching and introducing others to the activity.
Kris Kiser
Kris Kiser started square dancing as a teenager in 1970. Kris began his calling career in 2016 in western Washington. Mr. Kiser has been a club caller for 2 Washington clubs. Kris has been an active caller at many state meetings and several Washington State Festivals. He does guest calling throughout central Washington. Calling at the 2026 Washington State Square and Round Dance Festival in Ocean Shores will be the highlight of Kris’ year.
Rob Krum
Rob started calling in 1991. He taught his first set of lessons in January, 1992. He started calling for the Barn Stompers with Coloyce Preedy for two yeasrs. Rob then started calling for the Valley Crosstrailers from 1994 to 1996, Circle and Swing from 1999 to 2004. Currently, Rob calls for the Wild Rose Ramblers and Columbia Valley Twirlers in British Columbia.
Katie Marteny
Katie has been involved in dancing for many years and has also competed in the Pacific Northwest teen square dance festival in cueing, calling, round dancing, and squares. Winning many awards she has put all of that love and passion back into square dancing and continued calling and cueing to give other people that same joy and love of the activity.
Steve Mazel
Steve has been calling for 11 years and call for both the Gig Harbor twirlers (Ghorst WA) and Young bunch, (Tacoma WA). He calls through plus and has recorded five songs with R&D Recording and TOTL Recording.
Joshua McClintock
Joshua has been dancing for about 2 years, about 2 months into lessons he let his teacher, Dave Harry know that he would like to do what Dave does. Dave was kind enough to start me on my way. Dave, along with some other wonderful mentors including Stephen Cole and Vance Morrison, have all provided me with opportunities to call at their classes or workshops and has grown to really enjoy calling and seeing the smiles on dancers faces.
Special call out to Ken Ritucci, go to his caller school!
Gunter Monroe
In ’95 a friend from church introduced Gunter to Square Dancing with Tom Tomlinson. Gunter soon took square & round dance lessons with Roger & Jill Spiese of Paws & Taws. In ’97, his very first mentor in calling was Spike Reid. Gunter calls for many clubs around the Sound. Moreso, he is the Club Caller for 7 clubs: Skagit Squares, Round Squares, Square Steppers, 4Plus4s, Square One & Double A’s, along with his own A Squared. CMO Audrey functions as life partner, Organizer & Motivator.
Dan Preedy
Dan Preedy began square dancing in 1968 learning from his father Dale Preedy. He began calling in 1975 and reached his 50 years of calling in 2025! He calls Mainstream-A2 and travels coast to coast and border to border each year calling club specials, weekends and festivals. Dan has been a recording artist for Lou Mac, Rawhide and Hi Hat recordings.
Glenn Raiha
Glenn started calling in 1976 after taking lessons. This year he will receive my 50 years of Calling Certificate from Callerlab. Glenn truly enjoys teaching new dancers and callers, currently mentoring 4 new callers.
Glenn is a current Callerlab member and serves on the MS Committee. I He calls all over the US including Alaska, Texas, Kentucky, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Panama. he is the club caller for the Flutterwheels and teachess lessons with four other callers at Lac-A-Do Hall in Olympia.
Jim Raupp
Jim started calling in 1978 and have now called for 48 years including the Cougar Squares in Toledo, Washington for 46 years and still calls for them today. He also have called in numerous state and national festivals over his career. Jim received the Parker Award in 1999.
Lee Rawls
Lee and Shanthala Rawls are engineers. They are semi-retired from their own product development company and have been married for 18 years. They took up square dancing together in 2018.
Tracy Smith
My name is Tracy Smith and I am a member of the Prairie Shufflers located in Kennewick, WA. I have been calling for 2 1/2 years, participating in council dances and occasionally filling in as a guest caller. I am a recently retired mailman where I had a retirement home on my route and have hosted a 1/2 dozen successful dances over the last several years. I would like to thank Dave Boggs and especially Tom Clymer who have helped and mentored me.
Jim Swanson
Jim Swanson began Square Dancing in 1982. Jim started Calling/Teaching for the Spontaneous Combustion teen club in 1985. He has been the club caller for 3 Mainstream clubs and 1 plus club. Jim has called at 3 National Conventions, 4 USA West Conventions, multiple Washington State Festivals, and 3 Idaho State Festivals.Jim is currently assisting with calling at 2 Tri-Cities clubs in the Tri-Cities.
Greg Weber
Greg and Sue have been the featured caller/cuer at numerous local, council, state, regional, national and international dances, cruises and festivals. Both are active and long-time members of CallerLab and RoundaLab and continue to serve on several committees. Greg and Sue were honored as the recipients of the Almon F. Parker Award in 2001 and in 2017 were chosen for the McNutt Award. We are very blessed over the years by the wonderful friends and families they have met through square dancing.
Round Dance Cuers….
Rochelle Catt –
Cuer Coordinator
Rochelle Catt started cueing in 2013 and has been teaching phase II and III rounds since 2024. She is currently the Club Cuer for the Jetstepper’s in Covington, the Do-Si-Do’s in Olympia, and the Crazy 8’s in Centralia Washington. As well as provides guest cueing for several other clubs throughout Washington State. Cues phase II-IV with some V and VI. Has been the Cuer Coordinator for 2024, 2025 and is the current coordinator for 2026 Washington State Festival, additionally is the State Cuer Coordinator for the State Federation.
Daniel Bailly
Dan Bailly has been a cuer since 1983. Along with his wife Linda teach beginning and intermediate rounds. He is the cuer for the Star Shooters Square Dance Club and has cued for the Wag Arounds, Querly Q’s, Hoodoo Valley, and SAC, WDA, as well as USA West Festivals. If you have a favorite song that needs to be choreographed, he will make it happen.
Sharon Boggs
Sharon is the 2025 Parker award recipient. She has been cueing for 18 years and currently cues for Tri-Cities Circulators.
William (Sarge) Glidewell Jr
Sarge and Cece Glidewell have been teaching and cuing rounds for over 19 years for his home club, the Klamath Country Squares. He has been a support cuer for several Oregon Mid-Winter and Summer Festivals. He has been a guest cuer for several clubs in Oregon, California, Navada, and Washington. He also cued a dance for a club in Maui, HI while he and Cece were on vacation. In 2012 he choreographed a round dance to Love Done Gone, which was selected as a ROM for Oregon and Washington in 2012.
Mary Parsons
Mary & Scott Parsons took their first square dance lessons in 1981. They took their first Round Dance lessons in 1983. They now dance at Phase IV and are taking lessons in Phase V. Mary started cueing in Jan of 2003. She joined Round A Lab in 2004 where they are on the Phase II Standardization Committee and Phase II Round of the Quarter Committee. Mary & Scott cue and teach rounds for the Round-A-Bouts in Olympia and cue for regularly for Flutterwheels and other Olympia clubs.
Susan Healea
Susan has cued and taught rounds for 40 years. She has been a featured cuer at many weekends and festivals throughout the U.S. and Canada. She was Executive Administrator for ROUNDALAB for 7 years. Susan is well-known for her choreography with two ROUNDALAB Golden Classic dances and a third dance on the current Classic list. She was the McNutt Award recipient in 2002.
Katie Marteny
Katie has been involved in dancing for many years and has also competed in the Pacific Northwest teen square dance festival in cueing, calling, round dancing, and squares. Winning many awards she has put all of that love and passion back into square dancing and continued calling and cueing to give other people that same joy and love of the activity.
Kyle Quande
Kyle began square dancing in 2001, at only 7-years old. Square dancing was in his blood. His parents, Grandparents were dancers and Kyle followed their path. I began competing in the Pacific Northwest Teen Square Dance Festival.
In 2006, Kyle began learning to round dance and quickly fell in love with it. He began cuing in 2013. In 2017, he became the official Cuer of the Jacks & Jills and Pi-R Squares. You will also find Kyle cuing for the Square Crows. He loves sharing his passion for the activity with everyone!
Joe Scarlatella
Joe started round dancing in 1972 and started cuing in 2009. He started teaching round dancing in 2014. Joe and wife Monica Shanks recently moved from Southern California to Puyallup, Washington enjoying the dance community and cuing at Lac-A-Do and around the Rainier Council area.
Sue Weber
Greg and Sue have been the featured caller/cuer at numerous local, council, state, regional, national and international dances, cruises and festivals. Both are active and long-time members of CallerLab and RoundaLab and continue to serve on several committees. Greg and Sue were honored as the recipients of the Almon F. Parker Award in 2001 and in 2017 were chosen for the McNutt Award. We are very blessed over the years by the wonderful friends and families they have met through square dancing.
Ron Woolcock
Ron and Georgine started dancing in 1986. They began cueing in 1996 and teaching in 1997. They currently winter in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas and have a round dance program cueing and teaching up to Phase 4. In the summer time they
call Olympia, Washington home and cue & teach at Lac-A-Do hall.
They belong to ROUNDALAB, serving on the board for 6 years and are a past Chairman. Prior to that they chaired the Convention Education, First Timers, and currently serve on the Phase II ROQ and the Index of Rounds committees. Ron served as President of the Northwest Round
Dance Teachers Association and chairman of the 2006 ROUNDALAB Minilab, and the Round Dance Coordinator for the State of Washington. The served on the Washington State Leadership Seminar board for 4 years. They have presented and taught at nine National Square Dance Conventions (NSDC) and were the Showcase of Rounds chairman for the 2012 NSDC in Spokane, Washington. They have
attended and cued for many state festivals in Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada and Minnesota. They were the Round Chairman for the 2009 Washington State festival, and hosted nine dance cruises. They have choreographed many round dances including Candlelight Carol,
I’m Doing Alright, Houston Again, Singing in the Rain, Rooney, El Lobo and If I Had To Do It All Over Again and many more.
Together they have 4 sons, nine grandchildren and three great grandchildren. They love to
travel and enjoy meeting all the dancers.