Next meeting Thursday May 17th

I have started pestering our callers for  the tunes they want us to play.
One has offered to call Grimstock, so we'll have another go at that (we played it at our first meeting, a year ago)

A visit from the Beech Band

Well we never got round to that new tune last night because the caller who wanted it wasn't there. If she had been we'd have been pushed for time because we had a visit from a group that play at the Beech, Chorlton and they called a couple of dances for us.
One of their members has been 'working towards' calling a dance. Well, we provided the dancers and the encouragement (no, I don't bully people into doing things) and he called one last night.

It made a lively evening having them there to exchange tunes and dances with.

We would like to welcome anyone who wants to try their hand at calling (or playing or dancing), contact me for more details.

We have one more meeting before our summer break May 17th, then resume in September. We will play that tune in May, even if I have to call the dance myself.

New tune for next week

Next meeting is April 19th (next Thursday)
We will be playing a new tune
My Wife's a Wanton Wee Thing
You can download or dots from http://www.blackcatband.co.uk/Tunes/, and watch a video of the dance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9026vlPB6do&feature=share . I think we will play it slightly slower, we are aiming at about 110bpm, I can send you a midi if you ask mjw@mowaddington.plus.com . If you want a really slow 'practise speed' version there is a midi on http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=abc.sourceforge.net/NMD/nmd/jigs.txt/0334 but we'd fall over if we tried to dance that slowly.

We will also be playing

Moon and seven stars for Domino 5

Bear Dance for Whale bones

Oyster Girl for Heptathlon

Boil em Cabbage down for Ken's dance

More to follow, watch this space.
See you.