ELECTRIC SALCHOW STAGE >>>

Saturday night in downtown Tacoma adults and children danced on ice to "Green Eyed Lady" by Sugarloaf. Rest assured, the Weekly Volcano isn't clever enough to be making this up. It happened. The crowd also danced to songs by Michael Jackson, The B-52s, Aerosmith, Jerry Lee Lewis, Stray Cats, Adele and many others. The band performing the songs - Igneous Rocks - crammed into a corner of the Franciscan Polar Plaza outdoor ice rink in a space the Weekly Volcano likes to call the Electric Salchow Stage. Yes, it's named after a figure skating jump Brian Boitano might perform to the music of Five for Fighting on the Today show. We can name it whatever we want. The Tacoma Art Museum asked us to produce the live music stage at the rink every Saturday night during its run. And Igneous Rocks kicked it off Saturday night in fine fashion, providing an awesome soundtrack for butterfly jumps, cherry-flips, layback spins - but mostly moves such as the unstable skating, the fall, the skid and the mixed-gender collision. It was a fun night, indeed.

Here's the Electric Salchow Stage band schedule:

Saturday, Dec. 8: Kim Archer

Saturday, Dec. 15: Champagne Sunday

Saturday, Dec. 22: Monday Ukulele Ohana Holiday Show

Saturday, Dec. 29: BODYBOX

Saturday, Jan. 5: Sweetkiss Momma

The bands perform two sets from 7-9 p.m. with a couple of breaks during surface repair sessions.

It was cool to see many familiar faces Saturday. Folks actually look good precariously balanced on steel blades.

[Tollefson Plaza, through Jan. 6, 4-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 4-10 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, $8, $1 off active duty military and family, $2 skate rental, Pacific Avenue and South 17th Street, Tacoma, website]

LINK: More photos from Igenous Rock's performance at Polar Plaza

LINK: Ten reasons why the Franciscan Polar Plaza is so awesome