[Callers] Re: Need help fitting to a tune

Thank you nice idea Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad On Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 10:38 PM, Woody Lane via Contra Callers wrote: Hi Laurir, If the band likes to play Beaumont Rag and can do a good job with it, try asking them to slow down to 120-124 and call a square dance to it.

[Callers] Re: Need help fitting to a tune

Good one. I also thought of playing it as a end of break come back to dance tune.  Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad On Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 5:14 PM, Tony Parkes wrote: My take: Ask them to play it during the sound check.   At the Concord (MA) Scout House the band used to play a

[Callers] Re: Need help fitting to a tune

As many have said, much depends on HOW a band plays a tune, but I do often like rags for dances with contra corners. J. -- Jeffrey Spero Culver City, CA > On Apr 27, 2022, at 12:50 PM, Laur via Contra Callers > wrote: > > A local band here plays Beaumont Rag As a part of their routine

[Callers] Re: [External] Fw: Need help fitting to a tune

I really don't have time to get sucked into an interesting philosophical discussion today, but it's catnip for me and I can't resist. I think we've got two different categories that have the same name (or at least the same informal name). Levi Jackson situation: - It was written for ECD

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Hi all, Seth asked "Is "Levi Jackson Rag" an English Dance?". The answer is very simple. It was written by an English man so, yes, it is an English dance! Modern American ECD is a small subset of English country dancing! See

[Callers] Re: Need help fitting to a tune

Hi Laurir, If the band likes to play Beaumont Rag and can do a good job with it, try asking them to slow down to 120-124 and call a square dance to it. Particularly a Western or Southern style square (like Texas Star) where you would have lots of flexibility with your calls. No matter how the

[Callers] Re: Need help fitting to a tune

My take: Ask them to play it during the sound check. At the Concord (MA) Scout House the band used to play a “sound check polka” just before the first contra. Don’t know how widespread a custom that is. Most dancers did a Norwegian polka, though a few did a “standard” polka. Tony Parkes

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Here's a link for Balance The Star: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu17uSab8gI On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 5:02 PM Jack Mitchell via Contra Callers < contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > I frequently will choose a “silly“ dance to go with a rag set. I have > frequently used happy as a

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I frequently will choose a “silly“ dance to go with a rag set. I have frequently used happy as a cold pig in warm mud in that slot and encouraged significant silliness in forming the stars that are theoretically with shadows but can also be five pointed stars or six pointed stars. As long as they

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Its a simple dance, it was suggested to me as “english” but its more of a general category. Anna turns five Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad On Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 4:46 PM, Jacob or Nancy Bloom wrote: Balance The Star was written to go to Beaumont Rag.  It's a simple dance, usually

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Hi Jacob. Gary Roodman’s ECD, Anna Turns Five, uses Beaumont Rag as the tune. Here’s a video: https://youtu.be/uWFYtm0EO38 Val Medve Essex Junction, VT On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 4:46 PM Jacob or Nancy Bloom via Contra Callers < contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > Balance The Star was

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Is "Levi Jackson Rag" an English Dance? That is an interesting question. Seth Tepfer, MBA, CSM, PMP Manager of Software Engineering, Oxford College Schedule an appointment: oxford.emory.edu/SethBooking

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Balance The Star was written to go to Beaumont Rag. It's a simple dance, usually done as a Sicilian Circle, so it may not be what you want for your crowd. I've never heard of an English dance written for Beaumont Rag. What dance is that? Jacob Bloom On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 4:31 PM Laur via

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Seth, thats an idea..As I recall they may not play it to fit but I will give that some more thought.  Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad On Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 4:27 PM, Tepfer, Seth wrote: #yiv3274184028 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}Hey Laur (and Bill)I've danced "Levi Jackson Rag"

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Thanks for detail and yes that’s the deal - its too stylized to know how they will choose to play it and callers that haven’t danced to the band aren’t prepared for the tune and the disconnection the dancers feel on the floor.  The musicians are not inexperienced, they are good musicians so it

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Hey Laur (and Bill) I've danced "Levi Jackson Rag" many times to the tune Beaumont Rag, and it works fine. I would be surprised if it didn't work for a contra dance. HOWEVER, it could well be the way this band plays the tune just isn't supportive of contra dancing. Seth Tepfer, MBA, CSM, PMP

[Callers] Fw: Need help fitting to a tune

Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad Begin forwarded message: On Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 4:20 PM, Laur wrote: Yes Bill I agree.  I plan on asking the band not to include that tune, but thought I would give it a good sport try and ask here first. They play it for show, as a jazzy tune. It just

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Ragtime tunes actually often go *slower* than flat-out reels. Their grove isn't a fast deedlediddledeedlediddledeedlediddledeedlediddledeedlediddledeedlediddle like note-y Irish, or diggachukkadiggachukkadiggachukkadiggachukka like hot southern. They go more like: DAda, da, d'da Da - UH!

[Callers] Re: Need help fitting to a tune

Laur, where are you? Not quite sure I understand here.. The BAND is suggesting the dance that you should call to a tune they want to play?? u... That ain't how it works. Make it easy on yourself.. You are in control here.. Just tell the band NOT to play the tune.. That all said, there are

[Callers] Need help fitting to a tune

A local band here plays Beaumont Rag As a part of their routine dance set. It’s a popular band.  I’ve never experienced  a contra dance The  band has  chosen to play for a dance work. It doesn’t work for the dancers and it’s agonizing for the caller.  Can anyone suggest a dance that could fit?