I have the opportunity to be interviewed about contra dance on a weekly radio program on a
public radio station in our community. This program serves local country and western,
salsa, swing, tango etc dancers as well as doing some promotion of folk, Scottish etc. The
format is usually to play representative music by well known groups, have a few live local
musicians play, interview someone knowledgeable, then announce where the dance events are
happening that week around the state. I will have 15-20 minutes to talk, probably
interspersed with tunes.
I see this challenge as somewhat different from our contra-community-wide problem of
describing contra to the general public....the audience here is a group of folks who
already do other sorts of dance. I would welcome sound bytes from anyone with this in
mind. What points would you folks make?