It's Important To Choose The Right Dances

It's Important To Choose The Right Dances

I have been looking at the top  line dances doing the rounds this  year. Because it is important to choose the dances that are being played at social nights, they is nothing worse than going to an event and finding out you don't know the dances that are being played on the dances floor. I have made a list of some of the dances we done this year and  looking over the different chart from pop to country the dances we do are in the charts.

Down To The River  |Dixie Road  |Young Blood   

A little bit Gypsy | Ball And Chain  | Boat to Liverpool 

Bread On The Table  | Boys Of Summer  |Blueberry Chill   |Blue Blue Day    

Came Out Like A Rose |Come As you are  | Champagne  | Crazy Lady      

FlyHigh |High Cotton | Joyride | Mile Shy of Paradise

Mona Lisa  |My First Love  | No Honky Tonk |Oh Fiona       

One Shot | Piano Man  | Push For The Stride |Where The corn Don't Grow |

Places I've Been  |This is Me  | That's where I'll be  |Thats just me       

They Call Me The Breez  |Sea Cruise  | Shadowlands  |Salt and Lime        

Shoebox | Same Thing Happened to me  | Silver Linings     

Woman Trouble  |Waltz Till I Love You  |A Different kind a man 

All the dance that are in heavy type are in one chart or another, wheather pop or Country this has been proven out when the members go away to meeting all over the country, the dances they know are the main dances on the dance floor. So Margaret Gough must be doing something right.

Saying Good Bye To An Old  Friend

On Wednesday 12th of November we say our farewells to Vera Williams who pass away last week. Her kin asked us if we could hold the wake at the club and do some line dancing in her memory, so that what we did, and there was fun and laughter just what Vera would wanted.

 

Beginners Class

 The beginners are starting to learn the dances that they have done over the last few weeks but to different music  this will help them to understand  that a dance is to BPM tempo and not fix to just one song. the dance Black Coffee was done to a slow  Eric Burdon The Animals song it was a slow rock song that when really well. We also did Sea Cruise and for the first time Shadowland This put them out of their comfort zone but that's dancing.
  

The Advance Class

 One of the new dances we are doing is Champagne it's not the easiest dance I've every done but I think the members are now getting to grip with the dance, see links to all dances below. the other new dance is  |That's just me | easier than champagne which helps. another dance which is making a come back in our club is Salt & Lime at first people did like it but it's dance in all the events where ever the members go. the other dances we have done recently are  |They Call Me The Breeze|  Crazy Lady |Mile Shy of Paradise | Push For The Stride | Where The corn Don't Grow |Woman Trouble .See link for dance sheets

    

Country Roots Has new Members

Country Roots Facebook page  has to  new members and they are both Choreographers they are Matt Vasquez we do a dance called  |Waltz Till I Love You | and the other member is Roz chaplin we do her dance | Places I've Been | and they are most welcome.

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