We are headed for a folk dance festival. Yesterday was our 20th anniversary. On our honeymoon we went to the second annual New Mexico folk festival outside of Cuba, at a girl scout camp. We thought it would be romantic to do the same thing again, at their 22nd annual event.
We arrived in Socorro, New Mexico right before 7pm, when dinner was to be over. We got directions to the campus of New Mexico School of Mines, but did not see any of the landmarks and streets we were supposed to see. So, just kept following the road we were on, and lo and behold, there was the campus, and they still had dinner available. So, everything worked out great.
Our dorm room was in the West Hall. Just your standard 2 bed dorm room. Oh, did I think this was going to be romantic……well it was in other ways.
During the day there were workshops. We mostly went to singing workshops. That surprised us, too. We thought we came mostly to dance, but we sang a lot. We learned a lot, too.
We did dance, in the evenings. The dancing we did is called contra dancing. Almost all the people there contra dance in there home towns. We were the exception, since Montrose doesn’t have contra dancing…….yet.
Contra dancing is done in lines with moves like square dancing. Each couple moves up or down the line, dancing with all the other couples in the line. It was wonderful fun and we did not mess up too much, and when we did mess up, someone always got us back in place.
The music we danced to was performed live by great bands. There was a talent show by the attendees. Surprisingly, there were some teens there. Sure would like to know how to get teens involved in square dancing in Montrose.
This band was our favorite. I will post their name when a remember it, or go out to the car, in the thunderstorm, to get the cd’s we bought.
Our singing class doing Cecilia at the talent show
The kids were doing the cup song. We have seen kids and adults with kids doing that many times. It is being done all over the world.
This is what the dance floor looked like each dance. You can see how much fun every one is having.
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