Many irons on the fire
Lots of stuff going on.
I’m calling for Duke City tomorrow night, and then doing my first full-scale contra dance on Saturday for FolkMADS. I’m also doing the beginners’ workshop, so I’ve been reading various opinions on how to do them. Here are a couple of links:
The ASDC board is also getting ready to have a booth at a health fair. We plan to use an LCD projector with videos and a PowerPoint presentation on the health benefits of square dancing. We’re giving away magnets, along with flyers (including the CALLERLAB New Song and Dance Routine brochure and some homegrown flyers). Our biggest goal is to collect names and contact information for people who would be interested in giving square dancing a try.
The ASDC is also sponsoring advertisements on a local radio station (KJOY-AM, no web presence yet). It plays easy-listening pop music from the 30’s thru 70’s, and the demographics fit the current square dance demographics pretty well. If you’d like to hear the ad (it’s me, pretending to be Larada), it’s here (MP3 file, 532 KB). Oh, and the great thing? One of KJOY’s main DJs wants to take square dance lessons; she’ll be starting in February.
On another multi-media front, if you’d like to see a video of some square dancing to “Fisherman’s Luck”, it’s here (QuickTime, 2.7 MB). The dancers are in traditional (full-petticoat) attire, but they’re having a great time and it shows!