welcome to this joyous form of having fun in a group! --- Liz and Bill <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Contra Callers, > > My wife and I have just had 10 days of > fantastic contra dancing here in New Zealand. We > joined up with Ron and Cathy Arps' contra > tour. We had a ball! It was our first chance to > experience real contra dancing. > > I've called "barn dances" here for many years, and > call MWSD too. I hope we can get contra going here > in Christchurch. We had a first go last Sunday > (www.baritompa.com/contra) > > I've been on the ABC square dance forum for > awhile, which promotes the idea of dances rather > than classes. On the tour I really enjoyed calling > a simple traditional flavour dance to the contra > dancers - who would swing for 8 beats! > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4zInEY84UI&feature=PlayList&p=40331DECD14CC5C0&index=11 > > Since coming back from the tour, I've made contact > via the web with a number of contra callers and > musicians and received so much help and useful > material. The contra community is very welcoming. > > Cheers, Bill > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > Mavis L McGaugh 510-814-8118 (answering machine-leave message) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
