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American tour summer 2019

by Colin Hume

In 2019 I'll be touring North America from around Thursday May 30 to Wednesday June 19. If you'd like to book me to call English or American please see http://colinhume.com/tour for more information. Colin Hume

7 years

Lower Midwest callers: Civil War ball opportunity -- Sept 15

by karendunnam＠gmail.com

If you have any experience leading Civil War events, and are not far from the St Louis area, here's an opportunity for you. Hermann Heritage Days, Saturday Sept 15, 2018 "We expect a hundred max dancers. The band is local and good but not experienced in civil war balls, however they will be easy to work with. It takes place in a period outdoor courtyard of the White House hotel. I am looking for a caller who spends less time teaching and more time dancing. I hate it when the caller spends 30 minutes teaching a new dance then 15 minutes dancing. I expect the dance to last 1 1/2 hours, maybe more." Pay is negotiable. "Hopefully as local as possible so I don't have to pay a big travel expense :) " Hermann is a little ways west of St Louis. The contact prefers a text message. Rather than post his digits on here, shoot me an email. If it will persuade someone to take this on, I can send you a typical CW program with prompts. --Karen D. in Michigan with weekend plans already otherwise I'd do it

7 years, 1 month

Re: Swing with arms arched over the top

by Dan Pearl

Not directly responsive to the question, but here is an old list of swing positions. http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/misc/swing-positions.html

7 years, 1 month

Re: Swing with arms arched over top

by dje h

A ceili swing is actually a different hold, at least to ceili dancers. It's a gender-free swing, right hands on each other's waist, left hands grasped underneath. Regards, Deborah Hyland St Louis

7 years, 1 month

Swing with arms arched over top

by Donna Hunt

Hi All: I learned a swing from Irish dancing, but don't remember what it's called. It's the swing with the left hands joined and arched over the heads of the dancers and the right hands on each others waists. I call it the "ceili" swing...what would you call it? Donna Web Site: donnahuntcaller.com Email: dhuntdancer(a)aol.com Cell: 215-565-6050

7 years, 1 month

Re: ITS HERE !!!! Dip and Dive Red Wing download

by don ward

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Re: Music for Redwing 48 bar version available

by don ward

7 years, 1 month

Music for Redwing

by john＠modernjive.com

Hi, Please can anyone recommend a good instrumental recording of the music for the Redwing square dance? Thanks. Happy dancing, John John Sweeney, Dancer, England john(a)modernjive.com 01233 625 362 & 07802 940 574 http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Dancing in Kent

7 years, 1 month

Re: Music for Redwing dip/dive version found

by don ward

7 years, 1 month

Contra dance database

by chriscpage＠gmail.com

Michael Dyck and I have done a thing: http://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/ http://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/ This (mostly) contra dance database 12,000 dances: 5,000 dances with viewable instructions 4,000 more dances with links to instructions Current search options include author, title, formation, and figures. You can search the figures of dances even when we don't have permission to show the figures. This will always be a work in progress, but hopefully it's good enough to use. Have fun! (and a lot of questions should be answerable by the FAQ on that site.) -Chris Page and Michael Dyck p.s. This has been (and continues to be) a long-term project. Michael and I started formally working on this back in April of 2015, but I started building my database back in November of 2010.

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