I need to change my email address to sleepysunstudios1969(a)gmail.com How do I do this? Thank you! Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the wind longs to play with your hair.     -Kahlil Gibran On Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 10:00:15 PM MST, <contracallers-request(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: Send Contra Callers mailing list submissions to     contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to     contracallers-request(a)lists.sharedweight.net You can reach the person managing the list at     contracallers-owner(a)lists.sharedweight.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Contra Callers digest..." Today's Topics:   1. working with inexperienced bands (Joseph Erhard-Hudson)   2. Re: working with inexperienced bands (sjapartments(a)gmail.com)   3. Re: [External] working with inexperienced bands (Tepfer, Seth)   4. Re: Classes for callers? (Emily Addison)   5. Re: working with inexperienced bands (Gregory)   6. Re: working with inexperienced bands (Robert Matson)   7. Re: working with inexperienced bands (Mac Mckeever) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:45:40 -0800 From: Joseph Erhard-Hudson <josephatthecoop(a)gmail.com> Subject: [Callers] working with inexperienced bands To: Shared Weight Contra Callers     <contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> Message-ID:     <CANVBvvNTmA3dpUVqtZpTZ5P9Nge4ch0ymurzcy7xOq0AvRiAAw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;     boundary="00000000000057db26062e79f201" Hi all, I live in a relatively isolated community in the contra dance world. To the extent we have a house caller it's me. We are trying to foster and develop new callers, but you gotta have bands too. So, I'd welcome your thoughts on working with new bands. My motive for asking is, a couple of times in the last year we have had new bands come play for our monthly dance. One was a blue-grassey country band. Another was a family group playing predominantly Irish tunes. Their musical skills were fine and their repertoire was serviceable, and they did okay, but there were definitely some rough spots. New musical talent is a valuable commodity for us, and I want to set them up for success. So, how would you approach this? I'd especially love to hear from folks who have done this sort of thing before, but all thoughts are welcome. Joseph Erhard-Hudson Moscow, Idaho, USA