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The Great Falls Festival aka Pumpkinfest!
It was a fabulous, even too hot autumn day, at The Great Falls Festival this past Saturday!
Check out this clip from our program!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fUplRcs01GM
The crowds were huge, the audience enthusiastic and a few joined us in a little dance of their own. We had such a good time!
While we’re been able to do a few demos over the last couple of years, it was a special treat to be back at the Fest which had itself been quiet for the past two years. Sadly, we hear that it may be the last one in Turners.
We were delighted to be there!
Happy Holidays from all of us!
December is a great month, isn’t it?
For us, we continue to practice a routine for the holiday demos we give at residences for our seniors. We take some dances that we know well and set them to Holiday tunes, and enjoy ourselves!
We encourage our audience to sing along to the songs they know – and they do. Just the other day, I noticed that their voices were almost louder than our music!
Here’s a great picture of us from just this past week when we went to the Holyoke Soldier’s Home to entertain some of the veterans that live there. We enjoy all of the places we go, of course; however, the extra smile is knowing that we are saying thank you, in our own little way, to these men and women who served our country in this way!
Happy Holidays! May yours be filled with music, song, good friends, and of course, dancing!
Come catch us at the Big E…and happy to do what we do!
Maybe you missed us and maybe you didn’t at the Three County or the Franklin County Parade and Fair — but, come catch us again anyways!
We’ll be at The Big E. Tuesday, September 24 at 6:00 pm!
A few photos from the parade and fair so far this season:
And, a note of appreciation arrived today that we’re proud to receive! Several times a year, with a program of mixed music and dancing, and then another program at holiday time with holiday songs, we provide an hour of dancing demonstration for many Senior places. We might go to day programs, or assisted living and everything in between, including the Veteran’s Home. It’s a real favorite of ours. One of the members of our audience recently passed away, and we received a lovely note from her son:
“You, and the North Country Line Dancers, were one of the highlights in my view, of the GVNA entertainment offerings, based on what she had said about her experiences there.
These GVNA events were something I could not have done for her despite my efforts to keep her entertained!
So I am very grateful for your thoughtfulness and engagement with my Mom. Long Live the North Country Line Dancers!”
It makes us proud and glad to work so hard to memorize dances, practice every week, and be super tired some days as a result, knowing that we make a difference, even just for an hour!
Here’s to 2019 season!
This week we started choosing and practicing our new program for 2019! Up to as many as 16 songs; currently at 55 minutes and we’ll need to scale it down to about 45 minutes for our program.
We’re off to a good start!
Stay tuned to find out what and where we’ll be dancing!
Happy New Year! Here’s to 2019!
We finished our 2018 season just a week or so ago.
In December of each year, we work up a program of about 45 minutes, filled with singable and familiar (sometimes not so familiar) holiday songs. We go to as many as a dozen assisted living facilities in our area and perform the demo.
We love it, the residents love it!
Onto a new year. We take January off, but in February will be back at weekly practice working on a new demo for these same facilities as well as fairs.
Here’s to a great 2019!
Fair season 2018
We’ve been busy at the fairs this summer, and so you can see … We created a you tube channel with videos, see at: Our videos
- Tri-county Faire
- Franklin County Faire (check out us in the parade.)
We were also at the Big-E – no videos there.
First Night Northampton 2017
Memorial Day Parade 2016 – Hadley, MA
The ride was a bit bumpy, but the weather held out!