[Callers] Looking for a CD that would have full length contra tunes for calling

Perpetual Emotion - self titled (awesome contra dance tracks but not trad music. If you want Zen trance dancing, this is the one to get. The phrasing is not always obvious, though, so new dancers won't get as many clues as the music of other bands as to the As & Bs. Ed and John made a great

Re: [Callers] Looking for a CD that would have full length contra tunes for calling

New England Dance Masters is always a good resource for dance music. Here is one of theirs. http://dancingmasters.com/product/any-jig-or-reel-cd/ Rich On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 1:38 AM, Laur via Callers < callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > Yes great > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone >

Re: [Callers] Looking for a CD that would have full length contra tunes for calling

Ordered this one and a couple others suggested from CDSS store and have been inspired by other response to start checking my regular CD collection for longer tune sets ! Cheryl Joyal clmjo...@gmail.com clmjo...@aol.com 630-667-3284 (cell) On Apr 7, 2018, at 11:37 AM, Rich Sbardella

Re: [Callers] Great dances for learning how to dance with ghosts?

Thanks, Yoyo. I am causing myself serious brain injury mind-dancing this one. In the end, I agree with you that treating your P as N works in this dance. There remains another issue of locating error-recovery opportunities (and possible caller interventions!) which I will look at (and NOT

[Callers] How many beats to a rip/snort?

I've looked in the usual places and came up with only two examples of a dance with a Rip/Snort (Rip 'n' Snort?) but one is inaccessible online. How many beats does it take to dance a rip/snort for two couples? My brain says 4 is too short and 8 is too long. I found one dance that pairs it with a

Re: [Callers] How many beats to a rip/snort?

I think you're correct about it taking between 4 and 8 beats (more like 6). If you want someone to ask, I'm pretty sure Jane Ewing of Alabama wrote a dance with this move in it. I don't think that we need to be rigid about the names we use today, but I suspect that historically cowboy loop was

Re: [Callers] Looking for a CD that would have full length contra tunes for calling

Wild Asparagus Live at the Guiding Star Grange is perfect as it was recorded at a dance. And it's Wild Asparagus :-) cheersJeanette Jeanette Mill Contra dance caller, musician, workshop facilitator Canberra, Australia Phone: +61 (0)449 686 077 Email: jeanette_m...@yahoo.com.au Skype:

Re: [Callers] How many beats to a rip/snort?

All, I wrote the following dance with a Rip and Snort. Due to the slight modification and squishy timing of down the hall it works out. I think it usually takes about 4 -6 beats in my dance. Rip and Snort duple improper Ben Werner