On May 21, 10:00=A0am, Lyle Lofgren <lylelofg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 20, 6:58 pm, Bill Martin <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> If you feel like you're coming home crazy, you presumably learned
> something, but did any of the Chinese learn to square dance? I find it
> hard to understand what the caller is calling for, and I sort of
> understand English. Did you have a translator for
The secret is I didn't call for groups that were majority Chinese. The
school had kids from everywhere, Asia, Europe, North and South
America, Austrailia. Same thing at the public dance, as many or more
local expats as local Chinese. The final big party dance was 90% round
eyes. The Chinese are unaccustomed to busking and participatory
entertainment like square dancing is. It worked in our unorganzied
fa****on because we were in the Beijing region which is quite an
international city it turns out. Out in the hinterlands I doubt we
would have been able to carry off a dance, even with a translator.
> It's not as if anyone else were writing much on this newsgroup.
> Even finylvinyl hasn't been heard from lately, much less Kellie.
I know. It seems odd, considering there may be more people listening
to old-time now than ever. Maybe Yahoo and Google groups have siphoned
off some people. I know in the West we have the San Francisco and
Seattle old-time discussion groups as well as NWOLDTIME and
NWBluegrass. For gig announcements there are the Seattle old-time web
site and my ****tland bubbaguitar thing. But none of those groups deals
with the kind of subjects that wreck old-time music does, and the
correspondents are mostly people like me, fans but not necessarily
expert (with some im****tant exceptions). The Yahoo groups are more
parochial and gig-oriented. And I had thought you couldn't get more
parochial than this newsgroup!
Bill
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