I was disappointed that I didn't get a chance to announce the New Year's Eve dance, so I haven't posted anything this week about last Sunday's dance. But now I have something new to post about. If you haven't heard of him, go check out Cecil Sharp, the founder of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in the UK. (Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Sharp) Not only was Cecil Sharp instrumental in saving and reviving folk dances and songs in England, including Morris dancing, he toured Appalachia and wrote down and preserved many folk tunes here in the US. It may not be stretching things too much to say that there would not be a Country Dance and Song Society (CDSS) in the US if Cecil Sharp hadn't existed.
I can't recall the caller's name now, but different is always good. The dance in Valparaiso tried hard to have TEN different callers a year, a different one every month in the season.
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