Hi List,

first, thanks for all of your good input about my 'swing workshop' brainstorm. Have taken note and will definitely use some of your ideas.

My next question is perhaps less of an organizational question and more of a calling question. I hope it is still appropriate here. Do you know of any callers/bands who will play/call to crooked tunes. I have some old-time musicians who like to play for me but don't seem to understand why I insist on them playing straight tunes... (you would be correct in assuming that they are not dancers).  Also, it has started to make me feel like a party pooper because they loooove their crooked tunes and want to play them. 

I have stayed firm, but I wonder if there is a way I could humor them.  I mean, if the swing corresponds to the crooked part, the swing just goes a bit longer, but eee. As a dancer, I just can't image it working. Or maybe I have danced to crooked tunes without even knowing it... Does anyone do this? 

thanks,

Rebecca Sass