The folk'n'jazz "ceilidh celtique"was last night and all was well. There were 48 people there, more than our usual audience, and best of all almost all of them did some dancing. In fact by the end we were pushing the tables back to make more space. It was particularly pleasing to see a big group of people from our Caylus French dancing course there and they all seemed to have fun. There was certainly no difficulty with getting them up on the floor to dance.
The music provided by Trevor and friends was great and my dual language calling seemed to work. Between dances folk'n'jazz singers performed to give the dancers time to get their breath back so there was something for everyone.
Organising an event like this is always something of a stressful time as one always wants it to be a success and with dancing you can never be sure how willing the audience will be to participate. There is one huge simplifying factor here though - folk'n'jazz events are always free (it's a condition of our free use of the salle des fêtes) so covering costs financially is never an issue. Trevor often plays at events with friends so calling on them to help out at times like this is easy. The rest of the entertainers are folk'n'jazz regulars.
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