I experienced a wonderful spontaneous rolling start recently.

We were in a small private party venue and fortunate to have Amy Richardson-Larkin (fiddle), her husband Jonathan Larkin (guitar, etc.) and Chris Ricciotti (yes - not only a caller, he plays button accordion) playing for us.

I was teaching a new dance of mine in a fairly rhythmic fashion and noticed the band start slipping in behind me quietly fitting a tune. No verbal or visual communication with them, it was more just a growing awareness of the possibility being offered to me. With it being a new dance, and therefore one I hadn't called before, I was a bit worried about going for it with the one walk-through. So I kept the momentum and matched pace straight into one more round of walk-through-like calls with them playing subtly in the background (offer accepted!) and went for it. It just flowed wonderfully and was rewarded with smiles all around. Great musicians make it look easy. :)