Blues Dancing at Cowboy Monkey, BluesCENTRAL Weekly Dance, Champaign, Illinois, August 2018. By Unknown Photographer.

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Dawn Clark

Dawn Clark

Dawn is an Urbana native, born in January, 1977. Working as a legal assistant by day, you can see her passion for music expressed in her performances as a lead singer with the Painkiller Blues Band and singer with local blues sensation Candy Foster and The Shades of Blue. Both bands play locally on a regular basis.

In her interviews, Dawn recounts dances learning from her mom and aunts, why she dances and her impressions of Chicago Soul Step.