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Cha Cha, Charleston, and Cheer

This Saturday, December 16, come learn cha cha, the line dance “cowboy Charleston”, and dance to a selection of holiday and non holiday music.

The Skinny:

Gays for Patsy’s Queer Country Social Holiday Party


Time: 7-11 pm
Location: 1st UU Church of JP, 6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain, MA
Info: gaysforpatsy.org/queer-country-social/

Lessons:
7:00-7:30 pm Cha Cha lesson with Patrick Piazza and Beth Aufiero
7:30-8:00 pm Cowboy Charleston (beginner) Line dance with Beth Aufiero
(demo • step sheet)

The Dancin’
8:00-11:00 pm DJ Bob Sweeney will be playing a selection of holiday and non-holiday music that you can two-step, lindy hom/east coast swing, cha cha, west coast swing, line dance galore, and more.

Who’s coming? you, I hope. Open to all genders, sexual orientations, races, and exprience. We just like to have fun, hope you do too and you’ll be dancing a whole bunch.

No experience? Don’t you fret none, we’ll learn ya.
No Partner? They’ll be lots to go around.

Just come on down and have a fun time.

This venue is non-alcoholic (it’s part of the church rules).

Volunteers needed at 6:30 and 11 to deck the halls and de-deck them after.

Dirty Water Saloon Playlist – November 17, 2017

Here’s our DJ Bob’s playlist for November 17, 2017

# Title Artist Time BPM Genre Comment
2 Baby Took a Limo to Memphis (Tribute) Rosie Flores 04:45 90 West Coast
3 Girl in a Country Song Maddie & Tae 03:39 160 Two Step
4 The Lazy Song Bruno Mars 03:10 174 Two Step
5 Stripes Brandy Clark 03:17 164 Two Step
6 Skinny Dippin’ Whitney Duncan 03:33 186 West Coast
7 Country As a Boy Can Be Brady Seals 03:23 70 Line dance As Country As Can Be (east coast)
8 You Broke Up with Me Walker Hayes 03:17 119 Line dance You Broke Up with Me
9 The Fighter (feat. Carrie Underwood) Keith Urban 03:05 66 Line dance The Fighter (restart end 6th wall)
10 Showstopper Brandon & Leah 02:44 214 Line dance Showstopper
11 Old Devils William Elliott Whitmore 03:39 172 Two step (speeds up to 210)
12 End of Days Brown Bird 03:04 177 Two step
13 Bright Echosmith 03:41 180 Two Step
14 Thunder Imagine Dragons 03:08 84 West Coast
15 Dizzy Scooter Lee 02:45 121 Line dance Dizzy
16 Inside Out (Remix) Imelda May 03:16 170 Line dance Imelda’s Way
17 Dibs Kelsea Ballerini 03:04 176 Line Dance Dibs
18 You Meet The Nicest People In Your Dreams Peter Mulvey 02:07 184 Two Step
19 Come to Me Koop 02:52 174 Lindy/East Coast
20 Coffee (Radio Edit) Supersister 03:32 136 Line dance DHSS
21 Bacco Perbacco Zucchero 03:58 125 Line dance Zjozzis Funk
22 Daddy Lessons Beyoncé 04:48 180 Two step
23 Title Meghan Trainor 02:56 180.001 Two Step
24 American Kids Kenny Chesney 03:03 168 Line dance American Kids
25 Cupid Shuffle Cupid 03:52 142 Line dance Cupid Shuffle
26 Toes Zac Brown Band 04:22 129 Line dance Toes
27 Knock Knock Jack Savoretti 02:55 182 Two step
28 Colors April Smith and the Great Picture Show 02:42 202 Two Step
29 Wishing Well Terence Trent D’Arby 03:31 104 West Coast
30 Fade Into You (feat. Sam Palladio & Clare Bowen) Nashville Cast 03:32 112 Waltz Also Midnight Waltz

Learn Lindy with Killian at our Saturday QCS Dance

Come learn Lindy swing with Kellian and her dance group at Gays for Patsy’s next Queer Country Social November 18, 2017!

Lessons from 7-8, dancing from 8-11, and performance around 9-ish!

The details:

Lessons:
7 pm: Lindy Hop Basics with Killian and her troupe
7:30 pm: Two-step basics with Bob.

Kellian has taught a number of times at our Dirty Water Saloon venue and she’s a joy to both learn from and dance with. We are excited that her group will perform for us as well.

Social Dancing: 8-11 pm
Killian and Bucky will be doing the DJing for the social dance portion. Killian will be playing a couple of lindy dance music sets and our DJ Bucky who will play ya some varied music (contemporary country, pop, americana, r&b, etc) to two-step, west coast swing, lindy and east coast, line dance galore, and even a waltz or two.

Performance:
9-ish: Kellian and her dance group will perform for us. I’m excited to see what they have in store.

About the venue:
$12 suggested sliding-scale donation includes lessons!
1st UU Church of JP, 6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain (across from the Footlight Club)
This is a LGBT+allies non-alcohol dance. We don’t care who you love or if you lead or follow, we just want you to dance, socialize, learn, and mostly have fun.

Come on out!

Bob “da prez” Sweeney
Gays for Patsy
gaysforpatsy.org/queer-country-social/