Time For A Change?

Time For A Change?

Has you can see I have changed to look of our blog! I think the design has a clean look to it, but all the content is still there. sometime change is a good thing, Line dancing has changed over the years and the way we can assess the information about line dancing has changed, we can now look at You Tube, Goggle a dance script,look on dedicated blogs like this one.

The dances themselves have change, more pop music is set to line dancing, and some of it is Ok and if line dancing is to survive we need young people to get involved, and if they like pop music they might like some of the more country tracks as well. So if you can give me so feedback on the new colours or if you have any suggestion   Please let me know either by Facebook @ Country Roots Line Dance Club or email countryrootslinedance@gmail.com.

This Weeks Beginners Dances

The Beginners class were introduce another  new dance called Simple Waltz (see links below) this as well as reviewing the other dances.Another recent dance they learned was Piano Man the other club members have being doing this dance for a two weeks now and starting to get into the dance.  The other dance was called Invitation Stroll another Waltz type dance just right for the beginner class. Other older dance standards like Cowboy Strut, Elvira and so on.
 

Piano Man Dance Sheet  Invitation Stroll Dance Sheet  Cowboy Strut Dance Sheet

New Dances For Advance Class

We are back after a weeks break (the center doesn't open on bank holidays) so it was part remembering what we did two weeks ago, and the when the brain is switched on we did a new dance called Push For The Stride I saw this dance on Copperknob a few week ago and loved the music and the dance links we be below. at the end of the evening we did a dance called Sea Cruise  Choreographed by Alison & Peter, it is a beginners dance but really nice I thing Margaret will teach this to the beginners next week.

  

Push For The Stride Dance Sheet  Sea Cruise  Dance Sheet  Waltz Till You Love Me Dance Sheet,  
The link to the Dance Factory is the best I can do for Sea Cruise the link take you to a page for dances with T's and S. the page is slow to load so do be in a hurry give the page time to loan in, for some reason the script wasn't on Copperknob. Other dance Shadowlands, Blueberry Chill, High Cotton and many more

Welcome to another Country Roots Blog

Welcome to another Country Roots Blog

Hello and welcome to another post on our Line Dance Blog, we have a lot to get through. First I would like you all to meet the Beginners Class and they are learning  really well. so please see the picture below this picture was taken a few weeks ago we have 5 more beginners now than when the photo was taken.

I was having a discussion a little while ago and it was about the future of line dancing the other person thought it was dead and there wasn't anyone intrested in line dancing, but if we look at the success of Margaret's class this show that is not true. people live to dance some are better than others but dancing is apart of all of us, it's one way  we express  ourselves. In our beginners class we have all ages from teenagers to senior citizen. which is great, as I have said before any club no matter what they do inside the club, Blows, to Basket work needs new blood or at sometime the club will go under, which after years and year of building the club up would be a great same.

This Week In Our Club

This week we learned two new dances and had a revival night just to  going over some of the dances we have done recently such as Salt & Lime | Blue Berry Chill | that one we haven't done for some time and you do have to sort your feet out. Another recent dance is No Honk Tonk, is quick but I like it now, along with, Mile Shy of Paradise, and Together Forever,  The Boat To Liverpool plus many many more I will put Links to all these dance.

New Dances

 

                            

 
 If you have any question or any comments you would like to make either email me at countryrootslinedance@gmail.com or see us on Facebook @ Country Roots Line Dance Club.

New Dance Old Dance

New Dance Old Dance?

I will talk about this weeks class in a minute, but first I would like to show our member tour web site. In this day and age it is important to have an online present in any club, group, or organization. We have done well in this area. I was looking for research matiral for our latest quiz and I typed in Rob Fowler, and our web site http://countryrootsrhyl.blogspot.co.uk/ came second in the page ranking see picture below. 

 

This is because we are active on the internet and this is why we have followers from all over the world and the more times we use our own web site the more we get noticed, and our twitter address  is @countryrootrhyl please if you have a Twitter account log on and follow us because the more followers we have the high we go up the rankings. I will thank you all in advance for you help in pushing your club higher into the  world of the internet.

New and Old Dances

We have done a lot of old dances lately once like Dangerous Curves    Dance Sheet  the song made by the Cherry Bombs which make a lot of comic songs.We also  did Remember When, Amazing Faith  Dance Sheet this are the older dances , We also did a new dance called Calm And  Collected    Dance Sheet  you  can looked at these dances and make your own mind up see.  YouTube videos below.                                    

   
Other Dances we did were Blueberry Chill , Came Out Like A Rose, Drunk At The Time, Dixie Road, Eighteen Lonely Months,  Mona Lisa, and many more. If you have any comments you can find us on face book Country Roots Line Dance Club. or go to countryrootslinedance@gmail.com .

Were Are Back From Holiday Blues

Were Are Back From Holiday Blues

Hello we are back after the break I have missed my line dancing learning new dances and we have a new dance coming later in this blog. But first the members had a discussion on our  face-book page   ( Country Roots Line Dance Club) the subject was about people going to event like Welshpool, or  the local Social night out, and not being able to to the dance that is currently on the dance floor, I think at this point I need to sum up the overall theme of the discussion if people like to line dance then they should go to a line dance club and learn the dances properly.

Everyone starts off as a beginner which in class there isn't any problem with, and as they learn more dances they build their own bank of dances. So when they go to an event they can dance without interfering with others and get more enjoyment themselves. The other point that was made was when a line dance Teacher go to a line dance meeting they are not teaching they are there to have fun so when someone blunders onto the dance floor thinking these looks easy and then can't keep up and blunders off again is frustrating.  Because  line dancing is like anything else in life we train hard to do these dances and while they might look simple most of them are the opposite.

The other question is what do you do? Well the short answer is nothing but bit your tongue, if you get a chance to speak with them try persuading them the benefits of going to a proper club. So the next time the person is at the same meeting as you, they might have learned a few dances and don't get in your way, is called looking a the bigger picture, we need people to come to line dance clubs to keep them alive and healthy.

In  doing my research for this blog I have discovered  Wolvestock has been cancelled due to poor ticket sales  

Which proves the point about keeping the clubs alive. Now to happier new the new dance.

The dance is called "Came Cut Like A Rose"

    Dance Sheet

I am not sure about this dance, is it a perfect beginner dance because there is so much that is repeated and you can easy start to dream as we disscued on Face book Country Roots Line Dance Club if a dance does excite you very much then you start to think of other things and then go wrong.

We Mainly had a night of going over new and old dances, some of which are link here.

Blue Berry Chill
A Little Bit Gypsy
Blue Blue Day
Come As you are
And many others

Monday Night We Worked Hard

Monday Night We Worked Hard

This is the Blog for Monday 4th Nov 2013. Well it was a cold night out there, the coldest night of the year around here this year. the turn out was good for a cold night and some members are away on holiday. We also had some new dances please see the link lower down this blog. 

I would like to talk about us humans for a bit we are still animal by nature and like to cuddle up to the fire when the weather turns cold. as I have just mentioned it we all came out on a cold night but I nearly stayed in ( I begin the website administrator) but I went and I enjoyed the night, it proved to me that we would all like to stay in doors when it's cold and hibernate, but if you push yourself you will find that you had a great time, I found the same when I did sports didn't fancy training but like it when I got there basically we are all a bit lazy on a cold night.

 Still Dreaming
Dance Sheet

Blueberry Chill
Dance Sheet

We was going to look at another dance but didn't have time to learn it, I think it worth look at it. I love the music so that helps because the dance  looks tricky but as yet I haven't dance it so Margaret will disagree I'm sure. Tell me what you think via comments on the website  or face book.

2 Good 4 Goodbye
Dance Sheet

 Other dance we did were  That's Where I'll Be,Shoebox,  Silver Lining,  Long Time Gone, and many more click labels to find links.