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Odd Sundays English Dance Party in the cloud!

Today’s Odd Sundays Dance is the Fabulous Fourth of July, with Sharon Green and Kalia Kliban calling solo adaptations of English country dances to recorded music. Expect fireworks—virtual ones!

We’re in a festive, holiday mood, so anything goes, silly songs, patriotic verse, military marches, and of course admirable adaptations of English country dances, brought to you by Kalia and Sharon. Please feel free to dress up as your favorite Minute Men and Women, British Grenadiers, Boston Tea Party-goers, Founding Fathers and Mothers—whatever historical or hysterical figure you choose. Dress up your setting as well, with a virtual background or with actual flags, [U.S., U.K., Canadian), banners, muskets, drums. Our theme for the day is Red, White, and Blue. Have fun with it. Who knows? You might win a prize for The Most Creative Use of a Red, White, & Blue color scheme!

500 persons max.

We are still learning how to run dances on Zoom. There will be glitches. Bring your patience, sense of humor, and love of ECD.

Before the meeting, clear a safe, spacious (to some degree of spacious) area in which you can dance. Put on your dance shoes.

When you join, please keep your mic muted, except when you speak, and then re-mute immediately. (Computer users: If you mute your mic yourself, you can quickly unmute yourself by pressing the space bar. Hold it down while you speak. When you release the space bar, that automatically will re-mute you.)

Click on Participants at the bottom of your screen to see who else is online. Click on Chat to follow conversations or to write comments.

Please raise your hands (use the icon, if you have that option) to signal that you want to speak. If we continue to have a large number of dancers, it will be hard to spot the raised hands. Forgive us if we miss your signal.

Doors open 1:00 pm PDT (sound check and chat), dance starts at 1:30PM PDT. The Zoom invitation will not be posted online; it will be shared via the BACDS-announce email list a couple of days before the event and on the Odd Sundays mailchimp list (to learn how to join that Odd Sundays email list, email Sharon at sharon@bacds.org.

Tentative set list for Odd Sundays dance 07/04/21 - Sharon & Kalia with recorded music

• Marching Forth (2021)
  3x Y’All March https://www.reelplayband.com/yall-march.html
  4/4 D
  3x March 4th https://www.reelplayband.com/march-4th.html
  4/4 G
  
  
• Washington & Liberty (1807)
  Tune: Jefferson & Liberty New England Fiddler's Repertoire #12
  6/8 Am
  Red & All Red B2, 108
  2/4 G
  Room for Ramblers B1, 106 ¢ D
  The Drummer B2, 34
  2/4 Gm
  
  
• The Liberated Librarian
  http://www.greenerywest.net/Dance_Pages/Sheet_Music/LiberatedLibrarian-Music.pdf
  3/4 A
  dance by Sharon Green; tune by Jonathan Jensen