I have the opportunity to be interviewed about contra dance on a weekly radio
program on a public radio station in our community. This program serves local
country and western, salsa, swing, tango etc dancers as well as doing some
promotion of folk, Scottish etc. The format is usually to play representative
music by well known groups, have a few live local musicians play, interview
someone knowledgeable, then announce where the dance events are happening that
week around the state. I will have 15-20 minutes to talk, probably interspersed
with tunes.
I see this challenge as somewhat different from our contra-community-wide
problem of describing contra to the general public....the audience here is a
group of folks who already do other sorts of dance. I would welcome sound bytes
from anyone with this in mind. What points would you folks make?
