Emily Ann Thompson with Frank Buschelmann, so expect a few Cincinnati dancers. There’s usually a carload or two when one of their bands or callers is on the stage. Welcome!

Do you have a dance bag? Hopefully it’s already packed with your clean, non-marking, soft soled shoes. Our lease specifies that dancers must carry in their shoes, not dance in the shoes we walk in wearing.

Also in the bag: a water bottle. We throw away dozens of water cups each week, and would like to minimize that waste and cost. (If you’re using disposable, the church asks that we not throw cups with liquids into the trash. Please pour out the water first.)

And if you need or want: name tag, disposable tissues, braces or bandages for any joints you want to protect, assorted toiletries, generally $5 or less for admission.If you’re arriving late for the dance on a night that the Murat has a big event you might also need $5 for parking. Normally we have free parking, but if there’s a concert we’re limited to a couple dozen spaces.

Any other suggestions?

Hi contra dancing librarians & others attending ACRL! We hope to see several of you on the dance floor, Tuesday night, 7:45 – 9:45 Indianapolis time. We’re just 1.3 miles from the convention center, which is about a 7 minute walk if google is right.

Please carry in clean shoes! The church floor was recently refinished & we need to be extra protective of it. Our lease specifies that dancers carry in, not wear, clean non-marking soft sole shoes.
Bob Duffy will call to music by Troika.

We have Entwyned and open calling the day after April Fool’s. (Next year April 1st is a Tuesday! Can hardly wait!)

Please block out October 18 – 20, 2013 on your calendar! Gypsy Moon Ball is a touch early this year due to scheduling issues.

We’ll feature calling by Gaye Fifer & Dugan Murphy, with music by the Coffee Zombies and Cocks of the North with Mark “Pokey” Hellenberg!

Here’s a teeny taste of Gaye calling
httpv://youtu.be/kCNUtQAsW8g

Everybody who attended Pigtown Fling, please come share that dance weekend energy!

Leslie, Erik, and Dave play on March 19th

We have sprung forward and it’s both warm and light enough to garden in the evenings. But dance nourishes your soul in ways different from mud & last fall’s dried stuff. Please come join Barry Dupen, Fletcher Tones, and us on Tuesday, March 12th. You can rake & wheelbarrow stuff six other nights of the week.

Jacqueline Schwab, member of Bare Necessities and longtime musician for Ken Burns documentaries, is playing and leading English Country dance in Cincinnati and Louisville this week. Each event will be well worth the drive (approximately 2 hour each way). Please tell her Kathryn sent you!

Thursday, March 7th, 8 – 10:30 p.m. in Cincinnati, at Ascension & Holy Trinity  Episcopal Church, 334 Burns Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45215-4320. She’ll be leading intermediate and advanced dances, so some familiarity with ECD is requested. If you’re not acquainted with instructions like “first corners set and turn single,” it’s a fine opportunity to listen and watch.

Sunday, March 10th, 3 – 5 p.m. in Louisville, at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 2233 Woodbourne Avenue, Louisville, KY 40205.

After a flurry of texting and emails it’s for sure: we ARE dancing tonight. Vickie Stohl will call, with music by Dianna Davis, John Paolillo, Twy Bethard, and whoever else shows up. We hope that lots of dancers and musicians will agree: music and dance are more powerful than snow. (that said, don’t do anything unsafe).