Thursday, October 29, 2015
Shameless Plug
Six visitors yesterday and 83 in the last month! So on the off-chance that someone looks at this between now and Saturday, let me encourage, exhort, and entice you to come to the dance at the Davie Woman's Club on Halloween night. We're going to decorate, William Eagan is putting together a special program of Halloween-themed dances, and John Burnett has been promoting the dance all over south Florida and the web, so it should be a good turnout. See you there!
Monday, October 19, 2015
Elevenses
Greetings, greetings.
For those who did not go to the dance yesterday and haven't heard, the room where we dance at Michael's was double-booked yesterday, and we were bumped for a yoga class. We didn't get into the room until 4, and while the band (Stepping Stones with Robin & Norman) and caller (John Rogers) were ready pretty quickly, and we went till 6 instead of 5:30, we ended up getting less than two hours of dancing in. At least we had enough people either stick around or come back to get in a decent dance.
I was not able to make the announcement yesterday (because we didn't have any), but I have a caller now for the Halloween dance. William Eagan is going to be calling. The band is calling itself Stringulation, and there are going to be at least five band members because Ellen Stahl is going to play, too. It may even end up being six! John Burnett says that they may just skip the sound system altogether because they won't need it for that large a band, and the problems of mike-ing that many people are difficult to overcome.
It may not come to anything, but I am applying for a job in North Carolina. If I get it, then I will discontinue the fifth Saturday dance unless someone else wants to take it over.
For those who did not go to the dance yesterday and haven't heard, the room where we dance at Michael's was double-booked yesterday, and we were bumped for a yoga class. We didn't get into the room until 4, and while the band (Stepping Stones with Robin & Norman) and caller (John Rogers) were ready pretty quickly, and we went till 6 instead of 5:30, we ended up getting less than two hours of dancing in. At least we had enough people either stick around or come back to get in a decent dance.
I was not able to make the announcement yesterday (because we didn't have any), but I have a caller now for the Halloween dance. William Eagan is going to be calling. The band is calling itself Stringulation, and there are going to be at least five band members because Ellen Stahl is going to play, too. It may even end up being six! John Burnett says that they may just skip the sound system altogether because they won't need it for that large a band, and the problems of mike-ing that many people are difficult to overcome.
It may not come to anything, but I am applying for a job in North Carolina. If I get it, then I will discontinue the fifth Saturday dance unless someone else wants to take it over.
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Post Number Ten
Is your tenth post an anniversary of some kind?
I see I had a couple of visitors yesterday, so my apologies for not having anything new to read. Saturday's dance featured Southern Atlantic Muse (Kevin & Dorothy) playing and Brian calling. We had an okay turnout, not great, but several regulars and several of our better dancers (not always the same) were not there. I hope no one was bothered by the little kids; one parent was there at my invitation and her friends there at hers. They liked the dance and want to come back, so we may have a new, younger, social circle become regulars, which would be GREAT. And of course if the kids take an interest, we'll have a whole new generation taking up contra dancing.
Just a reminder to anyone seeing this who does not already know, HALLOWEEN is a 5th Saturday, and there is a dance in Davie at the Davie Woman's Club from 7:30-11:00 p.m. I hope you will come.
I see I had a couple of visitors yesterday, so my apologies for not having anything new to read. Saturday's dance featured Southern Atlantic Muse (Kevin & Dorothy) playing and Brian calling. We had an okay turnout, not great, but several regulars and several of our better dancers (not always the same) were not there. I hope no one was bothered by the little kids; one parent was there at my invitation and her friends there at hers. They liked the dance and want to come back, so we may have a new, younger, social circle become regulars, which would be GREAT. And of course if the kids take an interest, we'll have a whole new generation taking up contra dancing.
Just a reminder to anyone seeing this who does not already know, HALLOWEEN is a 5th Saturday, and there is a dance in Davie at the Davie Woman's Club from 7:30-11:00 p.m. I hope you will come.
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