Big Scare Just Now

Big Scare Just Now

Hello as the Editor of this blog I login all the time, to up load the dances and to write editorial. So you can imagine my shock and horror when I logged on  and saw all the pages that has every been uploaded and the whole site was gone. For a moment I couldn't think what had gone wrong, then I realized I hadn't sign into the Country Roots Account. Phew panic over but it has brought something to talk about. If you lost all of your Digital on line presence, how much would you loose? If country Roots was lost, it would be three years of reference to dances lost that bad, but in the system of things I could  rewrite the pages. Not that I would like to do that. 

But some people store they whole life on-line,documents, pictures, everything that tells us what their are, could be lost in the clouds, or more likely a giant sever in another country. That wouldn't care if your digital life was wiped out. So, as much as it is a pain in the rear end, you should have paper or hard copy's  of all the thing you couldn't imagine loosing and never getting back.

The Improver's Class

That the moment the improver's are doing a lovely little dance call Open The  Box  There isn't anyone with a walk-through yet I might have a work with Margaret Gough and see if the class can make a video of this dance. 

Other dances were It's High Time, Is It Me, see bellow for dances, another nice dance is I. C. ME  I love the words to the song.( just make sure you hear the restarts.)

  

       

| I See Me | This Is Me  |It's High Time | Baby Kisses  |Cowboy Charleston | Little Bluff | Stream  | Buffalo Tales | Red Molly| Places | Vertical Expression | Memphis Love | Cheap Talk | Waltz Across Texas | Back And Forth | | Something In The Water 
butterfly Waltz 

The Advanced Class

 The Advanced class as has been learning a nice little dance called Little Liza Jane a long with the others we did last week, such as Hot Wheels, Good Luck Girl. and 80 Proof.

                                                                             

       

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 | It's High Time | 80 Proof |Good Luck Girl | Hot Wheels | Little Liza Jane | Win, Lose or Draw |In-Vince_ible | Open Arms |Nimby| New Dreams |Tuxedo | Play The Lotto|  Truck Stop | Skip The Line | | Heavenly Cha | Hard Work | Mile Shy Of Paradise |  Morning Sun And Memories | Rock & Roll King | Slat & Lime | New Shade Of Blue | Modern Romance | One More Day | Homegrown |

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Welcome Back After A Short Break

Welcome Back After A Short Break

Hello everyone I'm sorry the blog is a bit late I have been unwell and not able to write the blog. But we are back and there are some great new dances out there at the moment. And we have a land mark for our Blog site we have over 10,000 page reviews for all over the world. while the blog wasn't being written we have had some great dances coming out so we will get straight to them.

The Improver's Class

The class went over some recently learnt dances like This Is Me, Some Thing in the Water,  We have to new Ladies  started this week some we did some easy ones Cowboy Charleston, we all have to start some where.

 

           

 BabyKisses  |Cowboy Charleston | Little Bluff |Waltz Across Texas | Islands In The Stream  | Buffalo Tales | Red Molly| Places | Vertical Expression | Memphis Love | Cheap Talk | Waltz Across Texas | Back And Forth | | Something In The Water 
butterfly Waltz 

The Advances Class

 

The advance class learnt  The first was Good Luck girl by Tina Argyle ,64 count, 4 wall , Improver line dance. I didn't like the dance at first  but the dance grows on you. The other was called Hot Wheels Yvonne Anderson , 48 count 4 wall , Improver. Hot wheels I like because I like the music.it's the Beach Boys track. other dances we have learnt lately are 80 Proof. It's High Time. O.M.D.

 

  

Some Old Dance Are Great

Some Old Dance Are Great

As I said in the heading some of the older dances are really good I think there is a myth that the older dance aren't as good as new dances, but I don't think that is always the case, Lately Country Roots Rhyl has been revisiting older dances like Tumbling Rush, Two Bottles Of Beer, In-Vince-ible, on Monday night the class went over Bittersweet Memory, all these dances are really nice to dance, so lets not write these dances off just because their knee might be knocking, as someone remarked to me "Messed Up In Memphis is a dance that will be played at live venues for ever because of the solo guitar riffs in that song, the musicans can show case they skills." And now to things in we did in class

We Do Make A Difference

This is where we at Country Roots can help other people, learn new dances weather they are old or new. The first picture is a screen grab as I was look on you tube for the dance In-Vince- ible, and Country Roots is rated third from the top of the page in terms of intresting items.

This came up in a general search on you tube, the next picture is again a screen grab of a video we made in Country Roots  Rhyl to help our beginners last year, and now it has been viewed over 6000 times which I think is a good result.

The Improver's  Class

           

Elvira| Baby Kisses  |Cowboy Charleston | Little Bluff |Waltz Across Texas | Islands In The Stream  | Buffalo Tales | Red Molly| Places | Vertical Expression | Memphis Love | Cheap Talk | Waltz Across Texas | Back And Forth | | Something In The Water 
butterfly Waltz 

The Advanced Class

The Advanced class are still revisiting the older dances. But this is a new dance called Open The Box. This will be taught to the Improver's class eventually this is a dance 48 count Beginners /Improver dances by Gaye Teather that would fit a lot of live songs. As yet there isn't any videos out  but I don't think it will be long before one is out. I have made a link to the dance sheet.

               

Win, Lose or Draw |In-Vince_ible | Open Arms |Nimby| New Dreams |Tuxedo | Play The Lotto|  Truck Stop | Skip The Line | | Heavenly Cha | Hard Work | Mile Shy Of Paradise |  Morning Sun And Memories | Rock & Roll King | Slat & Lime | New Shade Of Blue | Modern Romance | One More Day | Homegrown |

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More Back To The Future

More Back To The Future

Hello once again in this week’s blog we are looking back at some of the older dances. Dances like Two Bottle Of Beer, it was released 2005, there isn't a video to this dance so I have made a link to the dance sheet. In terms of line dances, ten years is a long time ago. If you look at the amounts of new dances, that are released every week. The last time I checked about 40 new dances are put out every week, not all of them see the light of day, and some don't last very long even if they are spotted. But you do get some dances that stay the distances, and become classics such as Cowboy Charleston, Cowgirl Twist, Islands in the Streams, Vertical Expressions, and so on. The older dances were helped to become established because there weren't as many dances being released in a week as there are now. Which in one way was good, because you got to know the dances really well? Now with so many dances flooding the Internet every week, dances come and go before you really have time to learn them properly. I'm not staying new dances can't stand the test of time and still be remembered in ten years from now. I am staying I think it will be much harder for any dance to become a classic in the new age of line dancing.  

           The Improver's Class 

The class had a revision night going over the recent dances they have learned

         

Cowboy Charleston | Little Bluff |Waltz Across Texas | Islands In The Stream  | Buffalo Tales | Red Molly| Places | Vertical Expression | Memphis Love | Cheap Talk | Waltz Across Texas | Back And Forth | | Something In The Water |Butterfly Waltz 

The Advanced Class

The class leaned a new dance last night as well as Two Bottles Of Beer ( see link above) which most of the members either hadn't done or couldn't remember, the new dance was Win, Lose or Draw.          Choreographer: Karl-Harry Winson (UK) April 2015, Is a nice dance it flows really well when we know it well enough it has a nice ending to the dance. 

   

                  

Win, Lose or Draw |In-Vince_ible | Open Arms |Nimby| New Dreams |Tuxedo | Play The Lotto|  Truck Stop | Skip The Line | | Heavenly Cha | Hard Work | Mile Shy Of Paradise |  Morning Sun And Memories | Rock & Roll King | Slat & Lime | New Shade Of Blue | Modern Romance | One More Day | Homegrown |

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Just Because A Dance Is Old?

Just Because A Dance Is Old?

Hello the headline of this weeks blog, just because a dance it's an old doesn't mean it's past the use by date. For the last couple of weeks Country Roots Rhyl have been look at the  old dances, some from the late 90's and  2000's, and some of these are really nice dances. So I think it's time we at on Country Roots Blog did some recycling with these older dances. The improver's have learnt You Little Bluff Robbie McGowan Hickie 2010 that's five years ago,I remember learning that when it was new, it's still a nice dance. going back further in time  Dangerous Curves  click here if you can't remember how it goes  We have been learning Nimby , Open Arms uploaded to you 2009, New Dreams , In-Vince-ible, 2003 a really nice dances. (see these dances below.) The point is they are really good dances and they get left behind and it's a shame that it's only when we have review nights they ever see the light of day.  

The Improver's Class

         

Cowboy Charleston | Little Bluff |Waltz Across Texas | Islands In The Stream  | Buffalo Tales | Red Molly| Places | Vertical Expression | Memphis Love | Cheap Talk | Waltz Across Texas | Back And Forth | | Something In The Water |Butterfly Waltz

The Advance Class

                

In-Vince_ible | Open Arms |Nimby| New Dreams |Tuxedo | Play The Lotto| In-vinc-ible | Truck Stop | Skip The Line | | Heavenly Cha | Hard Work | Mile Shy Of Paradise |  Morning Sun And Memories | Rock & Roll King | Slat & Lime | New Shade Of Blue | Modern Romance | One More Day | Homegrown |

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Yippee More New Dances

Yippee More New Dances

Hi everyone this is a short introduction this week as they are new dances some we did last week. and some old dances I haven't heard of. So we start with the improver's doing Island in the stream. and revisit Waltz Across Texas. 

                               The Improver's Class                                                             

       

Waltz Across Texas | Islands In The Stream  | Buffalo Tales | Red Molly| Places | Vertical Expression | Memphis Love | Cheap Talk | Waltz Across Texas | Back And Forth | | Something In The Water |

The Advance Class

We did a new dance called Tuxedo This is a nice dance proper country music and I have one video of the dance we also I will give you a link to Be  Strong because I can't embed the code it has been disabled. BeStrong The rest of the dances should be OK. Nimby this is an old dance I'm not sure of the age maybe someone could tell me. OK the rest of the dance

                

Nimby| Tuxedo | Play The Lotto| In-vinc-ible | Truck Stop | Skip The Line | | Heavenly Cha | Hard Work | Mile Shy Of Paradise |  Morning Sun And Memories | Rock & Roll King | Slat & Lime | New Shade Of Blue | Modern Romance | One More Day | Homegrown |

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Lets Go Dancing

Lets Go Dancing

Well after all the Bank holidays Country Roots Rhyl is back, we have had so much disruption due to bank holidays because the centre doesn't open on those days, and very year we have the same problem.

But never mind were are back and we're doing some new dances and some old dances that we have forgotten about.

They is also a change in the way Country Roots Rhyl will write about the beginners because this will just about be the last time it will be used, because the people that have stay the course aren't beginners now they're Improver's, they have been dancing for 8 months, and stay at least until the half time break. 

The  Improver's Class

As well as going through the recent dances like Buffalo Tails, Places, and Vertical Expression and now Islands In The Stream the dance is listed as an Improver dance so the level is just right.

       

 Islands In The Stream  | Buffalo Tales | Red Molly| Places | Vertical Expression | Memphis Love | Cheap Talk | Waltz Across Texas | Back And Forth | | Something In The Water |

The Advanced Class

The Advances class  learned a new dance which is nice I think this is one of those dances that will grow on you it's called Play The Lotto by Diana Dawson 32 count Improver dance. The  other is an old dance 2003,  IN-VINC-IBLE Peter & Alison 64. count.4 wall. I have written in capitals because that's how it is on the dances sheet. there is only the one video of the dance that I can find, so it will do.

             

Play The Lotto| In-vinc-ible | Truck Stop | Skip The Line | | Heavenly Cha | Hard Work | Mile Shy Of Paradise |  Morning Sun And Memories | Rock & Roll King | Slat & Lime | New Shade Of Blue | Modern Romance | One More Day | Homegrown |

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