[Callers] Blues for contra dancing

[Keith Wood via Callers]

Here's a Blues Contra of mine 
(http://keith-wood.name/mydances.html#ShortButSweet):

Short But Sweet                             April 2015
Becket formation                            Beginner/Intermediate
12 bar blues - "Sweet Home Chicago"

A     Circle left 3/4
         Swing neighbour
B      Balance the ring (4 beats)
         Nevada twirl with partner (California twirl with other hands) 
(4 beats)
         With next couple, balance the ring (4 beats)
         Petronella turn one place anti-clockwise (4 beats)
C     Half hey, starting with women passing left shoulders
         Swing partner

End effects: After coming out out the set on the Nevada twirl, wait 
until the next one to rejoin.

Cheers

Keith

>>> I?ve been asked to call a one hour set in a rural heritage hall for a party for about 130 folks. There will be two sets at the end of the evening with a Blues Band. Yep, its a bit odd, but the organizer wants to bring all his various friends together and thought, rightly, that having someone organize some dancing would help that along. Has anyone ever called a community dance (circle mixers, scatter sets, longways, maybe a square) to a blues band? The band seems willing to work with me. Any suggestions about what to say to them so that I could call La Bastringue or Galopede, for example, and it would work?
>>>
>>> Any suggestions for youtube links for a caller calling to something other than the usual trad tune? I could bring in a fiddler and ask the band to back the fiddler up. Any advice on doing it that way?
>>>
>>> Is this so ridiculous that you?re all doubled over laughing? People will be there not because they are blues lovers so much as their buddy is throwing a party.
>>>
>>> In any case, I?d be grateful for advice
>>> Leslie Gotfrit
>>>
>>>

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