(photo by Arthur McNair)

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Letters and Announcements

• Letters and Announcements

Columns

• Balance and Sing (Store Update)
• Tell Me More — Childgrove, by Graham Christian
• News from Canada — Dancing with Friends, by Lorraine Muenster and Lynette Dyck, Village Green ECD
• CDSS Sings — “Song on the Times,” by Jeremy Carter-Gordon
• Yoga for Dance Gypsies, by Anna Rain

Web Extra:

• Hear Windborne sing “Song of the Lower Classes“, outside Trump Tower, NYC, January 2017 (WindborneSingers.com)

Articles

• Lifetime Contributor 2017 Sandy Bradley — How She Got Started
• Leading a Contra Dance Role-Swapping Workshop, by Erik Erhardt and Tina Fields
  Full-length version of the article
• Training New Contra Callers in Portland, ME, by Dugan Murphy

Web Extra:

• Hear Sandy Bradley on the Alcazar recording, “Potluck and Dance Tonite”

Last Page

• Back Cover (photo by Jeff Bary)

(photo by Julia Chambers)

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• Letters and Announcements

Columns

• Balance and Sing (Store Update)
• Hive Mind — Making Dancers Feel Welcome, Safe and Eager to Return
• Musicians Column — Aspects of Musicality, by Martha Edwards
• CDSS Sings — The Faces of Song, by Dianne Shaw, with Donald Hughes
• Tell Me More — The Apted Collection, by Graham Christian
• Yoga for Dancers — Attention, Extension, by Anna Rain

Web Extras:

• “The Grey Cock,” audio by Peggy Seeger
• 1917 facsimile of “The Grey Cock” from English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, Comprising 122 Songs and Ballads and 323 Tunes, collected by Olive Dame Campbell and Cecil J. Sharp
• Cecil Sharp in America (photo exhibit info)
• 1/26/17 WUNC “Here and Now” podcast, “How Cecil Sharp Collected The Sights And Sounds of Appalachia”
• EFDSS/VWML, Cecil Sharp’s Appalachian Diaries: 1915-1918

Articles

• It’s the Same Joy Everywhere, by Alice Boyle
• Dance for College Credit!, by Hilton Baxter
• Connecting and Letting Go and the Yin-Yang of Contra, by Lisa Marie Lunt

Last Page

• Back Cover

Addendum to This Issue

• CDSS Exec Meeting, Madison, WI, November 2016

Web Extras:

• Slide Show of Madison Exec Meeting

(photo courtesy of Pourparler)

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Letters and Announcements

• Letters and Announcements, Revised

Columns

• Balance and Sing (Store Update)
• News from Canada: Opening the Doors of Cooperation for Traditional Dance, Music and Song in the Northern Wilderness, written by Bev Bernbaum, an interview with Katie Avery
• Dance Musicians: Making Jam Sessions Great, a guide for participants and leaders, by Dave Firestine
• CDSS Sings: Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still, by Jeff Warner
• Yoga for Dancers: Physical Practice (Outside) Leads to a Settled Mind (Inside), by Anna Rain
• Hive Mind: Benefits of Turnover

Web Extras:

• “Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still” (Eleazar Tillett, 1951)
  
• “Conversation: Let’s Make a Date” (Eleazar Tillett, Martha Etheridge, Anne & Frank Warner, 1951)
  
• “Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still” (Jeff Warner, from Long Time Traveling, copyright WildGoose WGS 385, 2011; with Caroline Robson, vocals; Jonny Dyer, piano; Vicki Swan, nyckelharpa)
  
• March/April 2009 — Yoga for Dancers: The Upper Spine
• Fall 2009 — Yoga for Dancers: Align the Spine
• Spring 2010 — Yoga for Dancers: Opening the Shoulders
• Winter 2010 — Yoga for Dancers: Long Legs, Strong Back
  
• Winter 2012-2013 — Yoga for Dancers: Shoulders Back...and So Much More
  
• Winter 2013-2014 — Yoga for Dancers: Thumbs, Wrists, Shoulders and a Postural Epidemic
  
• Summer 2014 — Yoga for Dancers: Why the Well-Lifted Spine? For Breath’s Sake
  
• Fall 2014 — Yoga for Dancers: Open the Shoulders, Open the Breath
  
• Winter 2014-2015 - Yoga for Dancers: Keep Practicing
  
• Summer 2015 - Yoga for Dancers: Abdominal Integrity, Part the First

Articles

• Teaching Folk Music History—an interview with Jeff Warner, by Ralph Morang
• Folklore and Folk Songs—Some Suggestions for Teachers, by Jeff Warner

Web Extras:

• Hear Jeff Warner sing “The Baldheaded End of the Broom” from Jolly Tinker
• In School Program: A Teachers Guide

Last Page

• Back Cover

(photo by Jeremy Carter-Gordon)

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Letters and Announcements

• Letters and Announcements

Columns

• Balance and Sing (Store Update)
• CDSS Sings: Bold Lovell, by John Roberts
• Yoga for Dancers: Float the Ribs and an Altar for the Heart, by Anna Rain
• Hive Mind: Collaborations

Web Extras:

• Roy Harris singing Bold Lovell
• Fall 2009— Align the Spine
• Summer 2014 — Why the Well-Lifted Spine? For Breath’s Sake
• Winter 2012-2013 — Shoulders Back
• Spring 2013 — Cranky Knees and Long Quads

Articles

• Nontraditional Funding and Focused Mentorship: How We’re Growing a New (Awesome) Contra Dance Community in Portland, ME, by Dela Taylor
• Windborne on American Music Abroad, by Jeremy Carter-Gordon
• English Country Dancing in Gainesville, FL
• Continuing Education for Callers, by Michael Kernan
• What Dancing Taught Me, by Laurel Owen

Poem

• The Dance in North Sycamore, by Dudley Laufman

Last Page

• American Traditional Song Symposium announcement