Re: [Callers] Chestnuts and Money Musk

Hi Chrissy! Super about Money Musk! any chance we'll get to dance it at the festival? as follows is the email i mentioned i would forward, from Barry Jellison, a professor at UMO... sorry to be short and sweet, but we are! ;) Kim Hi Kim, I hope this address is correct for you. Trusting that it is: We were at the dance last night in Belfast (friends of Mark and Alex and we live in Bangor) and we met you previously at the Trenton Dance that you called? Great dance last night, and even though I am a fan of a lot of the older dance tunes, dancing to the old Stevie Wonder tune was awesome! A request, or something to think about anyway: I don't know if we will even get to the next dances you call, but I keep going to dances hoping that somebody will mix in some of the older "chestnuts" that are still really good to dance to. Everybody knows Chorus Jig, and Rory O'More and Petronella, but nobody calls them anymore....and I am not thinking about calling them every dance, but I have been waiting 30 years to dance some of those dances again....and I still remember how much fun it was to balance ocean waves up and down the hall with Rory O'More from that long ago even though I have probably only danced it only 3 times in my life. So, I know Chorus Jig is probably a pain in the butt to teach to new folks with the country corners figure (and older people like me probably forget halfway through the dance). And it's true that everybody calls a newer dance now that is sort of like Petronella (and they always teach it..."Now do a spin turn, just like a Petronella turn")... But do you think that you might be able to revive one or two of these old dances? (Just the good ones, I know there are a lot of boring old ones too). It would be nice to dance them in Maine sometime. Thanks, Barry On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Chrissy Fowler <ktaadn_me(a)hotmail.com>wrote;wrote: