The Mean Lids play Urbana’s contra on Friday, December 13th. That’s just 2 hours away, and on Central Time so you need to leave Indy by 7pm.

Next to last contra for the year. David Ernst calls. Music by  Convolution! The Mean Lid’s Ben Smith’s fast fiddlin’, the Coffee Zombie’s Dianna Davis on accordion, clarinet, and foot percussion; and Vickie Stohl driving the contra tunes on her guitar.

Hope to see you and your friends on the dance floor, wearing clean shoes that you have carried in, not shoes you have walked in wearing. Refinishing the gym floor last year cost over $4,000, so we’ve got to take care of it. Winter means sand and salt and lots of extra risk that we’ll scratch it up; please don’t take it personally when we’re strict about this!

December is short on dancing, because the church needs their hall & parking lot on the 24th & 31st. Come contra to open calling on the 3rd.

Bloomington (just an hour away) has a 5th Saturday on November 30th, with Jonathan Sivier calling to Euphor.

We’re counting down the year, with just four dances left in 2013. We take two weeks off, December 24th and 31st, because our dance hall is unavailable, but we’ll be back! Dancing will resume in January 2014, with our first dance on Tuesday the 7th.

Both Cincinnati and Louisville will have New Year’s Eve dances, and Bloomington will dance their regular Wednesday dances on both Christmas and New Year’s Day.

Fly Run will play, and Jonathan Sivier will call. Get some exercise November 26. Thursday’s not likely to be a big exercise day.

We’re lucky to have Ben as a new Indy resident, playing music regularly for us. Come bask in your good fortune  on November 19th as he plays with equally wonderful Dianna and Mark. Josiah Roberts calls.

The band is Hoosier Tones & caller is Bob Duffy. People will be there. Hopefully you will be one of them. Don’t forget your clean, soft soled shoes! A water bottle helps too.

All musicians, pro and amateur, are welcome to play on Tuesday, November 5. Please arrive about 7:15 pm so we can set up enough chairs & stands, and get organized.

Gypsy Moon Ball 2013 was a blast.

Thanks to dance leaders and musicians Gaye Fifer, Dugan Murphy, the Coffee Zombies, Cocks of the North, Mark Hellenberg, Doug and Fiona Becker, and Vickie Gruner; to the volunteers and people who worked setup, cleanup, registration, and other tasks in exchange for reduced admission; to the board; to the dancers; to people who post pictures on facebook and other places and let us use them in our p.r.; and to others how have danced or contributed to dance.

If you attended GMB 2013, we welcome your anonymous feedback. If you didn’t attend, we’re welcome your input too!

We’ve begun work on GMB 2014, which should be in late October. Details tba.

Next up, we hope to have a great Indy present in Louisville forFleur de lis Fling, and at other nearby dance weekends.