"Money Musk", called and danced gender-role-free, Boston Gay & Lesbian 
Contra dancers, First Church of Jamaica Plain (U.U.), J.P., MA. Second 
dance after the break. About 40 dancers. Caller: Bob Golder, Band: 
Dogtown (Norb Spencer, Becky Miller, Tom Randall). Well received by 
all, including several attendees for whom this was their first contra 
dance.  ... Bob

Robert Jon Golder
164 Maxfield St
New Bedford, MA 02740 USA
508-999-2486

On Jan 27, 2009, at 10:47 AM, David Millstone wrote:

> Country Dance and Song Society has published "Cracking Chestnuts," a 
> collection
> that celebrates the living tradition of classic contra dances. David 
> Smukler is
> the primary author and I also contributed some pieces. You'll find 
> detailed
> articles about seventeen dances, with suggested tunes typeset by Randy 
> Miller,
> an appendix with an additional 20 dances, an introduction to triple 
> minor
> contras, and some suggestions for how to introduce and teach chestnuts 
> at your
> local series. The book (can be ordered from CDSS (it's $20 plus 
> shipping), and
> David and I have copies that we're selling at our gigs. I'm also 
> filling mail
> orders, so contact me off-list if you're interested.
>
> As it happens, David and I are each holding book release parties on 
> March 14, he
> in Syracuse, NY (with George Wilson and Tom Hodgson) and I in Norwich, 
> VT (with
> Northern Spy) at which we'll each present a full evening program of 
> chestnuts.
> At the recent Ralph Page Dance Legacy Weekend, talking about these 
> simultaneous
> similar events, we came up with the idea of each of us calling Money 
> Musk as the
> first dance after the break, sometime around 9:45 or 10 PM. "Hey," we 
> thought,
> "let's invite others to join us!"
>
> So, if you have a dance scheduled for Saturday, March 14 and if you 
> have
> musicians who can do justice to the tune and if the dance would be 
> appropriate
> for your dancers that night, we invite you to join us in bringing back 
> Money
> Musk. [If you're of a Dudley frame of mind, you may refer to it as 
> "The Money
> Musk."] And let me know if you did, and who was playing the music and 
> calling,
> and where this took place, and about how many dancers were in the hall 
> at that
> time, and we'll tally the results. (Callers in other time zones, you 
> could call
> it at about 9:45 or 10 PM your local time and we'll count that, too.)
>
> Note: If you're thinking of doing this, please check with musicians 
> ahead of
> time. Many musicians will be happy to work up the tune if given some 
> advance
> warning, but it's not something to spring on them on just before you 
> announce
> the dance!
>
> David Millstone
> Lebanon, NH
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