Line dance to win a guitar, contest details

Gloriana launched a line dance contest today. They're picking 10 winners with the grand prize being an autographed Gloriana guitar. Here are the details:

Show your dancing skills and win a signed Gloriana Guitar!
 
Check out the instructional video on the "Line Dancing" page and show us your steps by creating your own video showcasing you and your friends doing this line dance.
Submit your video link and get your own personalized URL to share this contest site with your friends!

The top 10 fans who submit a video AND get the most views on their personalized URL will be our finalists.

Gloriana will choose their favorite to be the Grand Prize winner! The remaining nine finalists will receive a premiere Gloriana prize pack.

Get your url at http://www.glorianacontest.com/ 

Gloriana "Wanna Take You Home" Line Dance Instructional Video:



While you're sharing your links, email them to 38step@gmail.com & we'll try to help you out n' post your urls. Happy Dancin' & good luck.


Rules

- All videos must be over 30 seconds in length and contain no inappropriate language or gestures.
- All videos must be submitted by 11:59pm on July 29, 2011 to be eligible for the contest.
- By appearing in the video that is submitted to the contest, all participants grant consent for their image to be viewed on Gloriana.com.
- The top 10 fans who submit a line dancing video to their new single "Wanna Take You Home" AND get the most views on their personalized URL will be our 10 finalists. Gloriana will choose their favorite to be the Grand Prize winner!
- The remaining 9 finalists will receive a premiere Gloriana prize pack.
- Only one guitar will be awarded to the winning video regardless of the number of dancers involved.Only one premiere Gloriana prize pack will be provided to each of the remaining nine finalists. Prizes will be shipped to the contact information provided with video submission.
- The "Gloriana Wants To Take You Home" Line Dancing Contest is open to all age groups, while other contests within "Gloriana Wants to Take You Home" may have age restrictions.

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Get rodeo ready, cowboy season's coming!

Spring is coming next weekend! The animals will be waking up, you should come out of hibernation too. First things first, peruse 38step.com and brush up on your dance steps, of course!

Atlantic City Rodeo

Rodeo &  Beer Festival coming to Atlantic City on the same weekend!
Now THAT sounds like a fun weekend! April 1 - 3, Atlantic City will be full of cowboys & beer. Suds & Studs & Spurs... ooh la la!
Rodeo tix start @ $16. You're darn right I'll be in town that weekend, actin' like a FOOL!

The first weekend in April, what kind of fool will you be?




Bally's Wild Wild West Casino - Oh how we would love to see them get some good line dancing events going! Hopefully the Atlantic City rodeo will kick up a little inspiration for their promotions department. All they need is a wooden dance floor and a decent DJ who is familiar with line dancing... someone to get the word out and viola.

Friendly Tavern reopened last summer.  It's an old favorite dancin' destination for many. Some yelp-ers said,

"Great country music with plenty of dancing.  Live bands are a plus.  So glad to have country dancing close again.  Great, diverse crowd with music for old and young alike."

 "Saturday we found this new spot about an hour's drive from NE Philly. Located in Carneys Point NJ, the newly reopened under new management, Friendly Tavern sure lives up to its name is worth the trip"

 "The lights are dim, Beer is cold, and the Music is Loud! Line dancing was the Deal! The crowd aged from Mid-30's to 70 years old. I'm Sure this place is going to be a Hit! "

djharry2189 has a few videos from Friendly's. The Friendly Tavern has its perks and its drawbacks but a must-try for post-rodeo rowdiness. Which leads me to...

Cowtown Rodeo - Every Saturday Night 7:30 PM
May 28, 2011 - Sept. 24, 2011

Dig out your kickers 'n wranglers, order a new white dress (so excited they're in this season), and plan some nights out! Do it up like us gals did in "Line Dancing, Concert Tix, The Rodeo Song (sans the music, poetry, art, singing, rhythm, humor and sound) ", grab a grill & some beverages (Cowtown Rodeo lets you bring in a cooler), and assign your designated driver (it's a long walk)... party it up rowdy rodeo style!

Yeeeeeee...haw

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Love live country music

Luck with the concerts lately... not so much. Let's start with the Gary Allan show on March 5 @ the House of Blues in Atlantic City... we were going to get some tickets at the door - SOLD OUT. We heard it was a great show too.
Then... last weekend to go see Eric Church at Prospectors & oh yeah, SOLD OUT. What the heck?!
So this week I was listening to Cat at work and heard "Caller number 7 wins Josh Turner tickets" and I started dialing, and it rang ~ yipee!! It was great to win tickets after my good run of bad luck. I feel lucky, really lucky. Can't wait for the show! Josh Turner has the sexiest voice ever ;)

Speaking of live country music...

• 4 Wheel Drive is playing at the Brigantine Elks Lodge April 4
• Adam Gregory is playing Prospectors on April 8, $6 from 6-8pm
  
• Cat Country 107.3 is doing something called the Weekly Cat Country Local 10 where local country musicians get radio play Sunday nights starting March 29. Sounds cool...
• James Otto will be at Prospectors on April 18 - 856-235-1121 for tix
  
• Bombshel is playing at Prospectors on May 7th 6-8pm, $6
  
• Jamey Johnson's playing Prospectors on May 9th $15 advance, $20 door. Call 856-235-1121 for tix
  
• The XTU Show is June 13th & includes Big & Rich, Phil Vassar, James Otto, Kellie Pickler & more ---- The unofficial start to summer :)
• Kenny Chesney is coming to Philadelphia June 27
• Toby Keith is with Trace Adkins at the Susquehanna center in Camden on July 25th
• Keith Urban's coming to the Wachovia Center August 1
• Brad Paisley is playing with Jimmy Wayne & Dierks Bentley on August 15
• The Little Rascals, I mean Rascal Flatts are with Darius Rucker September 11.
• XTU's doing their mega ticket deal again this year which includes The Anniversary Show, Toby, Brad & the Rascals... ooooh!

And for the heck of it, there is a benefit this Saturday at Prospectors called Officer Down. It's a fundraiser where the proceeds benefit the families of deceased and permanently disabled law enforcement officers. $10 in advance, $15 at the door. $2 drafts, 6pm doors open, 3 hour buffet. A night out & a good cause all in one...

Top 10 Country Dance Club Hits from Club Connection

Club Connection (aka my Nashville Friends here on 38step.com) released their top 10 Country Club Hits of 2008. The original list can be found on their myspace blog or on CMT.com .

Here it is:
(with the line dances of course! )

1. Alan Jackson "Good Time" - Good Time line dance; Happy Radio line dance
   
2. The Zac Brown Band "Chicken Fried" - Chicken Fried line dance; Cowboy Rhythm; Sweetheart Schottische
   
3. Kid Rock "All Summer Long" - Fast Canadian Stomp
   
4. Matt Stillwell "Shine" - Shine line dance
   
5. Toby Keith "She's a Hottie" - Fast Canadian Stomp; Two Step
6. Lady Antebellum "Love Don't Live Here" - Fallsview Rock line dance; Sidekick
   
7. Sugarland "All I Wanna Do" - Canadian Stomp; Two Step
8. James Otto "Just Got Started Lovin' You" - Couples' dance Horseshoe Shuffle, West Coast Swing
   
9. Adam Gregory "Crazy Days" - Crazy Days line dance, Walk the Line line dance; Shuffle
   
10. Craig Morgan "International Harvester" - Canadian Stomp line dance; Two Step

The playlist on itunes: Club Connection's Top 2008 Country Club Hits

Line Dance Blog Buzz

What people have been thinking & saying about line dancing recently in the blog world.

Country Music is my Favorite
From: http://www.pitmanchamber.com/arts/country-music-is-my-favorite/
...Anyone who has never gone line dancing before is really missing out because it is a blast. So if you haven’t gone go check it out you’ll have a great time.

Country Wedding Bride stuff
Bridal Accessories: Some 3 Great Wedding Themes http://mothershare.net/bridal-accessories-some-3-great-wedding-themes/
"...If you find a hall with an outdoor area, you can have a down south barbecue and some down home western dancing. This one extremely well thought out wedding. The bridal accessories will include decorations, cowboy hats, cowgirl dresses or pants skirts and a lace robe tied around the cowboy hat. If you have a more modern country wedding, you might have a ceremony and a reception you would find in Nashville. Your guests would be strictly cowboys and cowgirls without the Indians. Everything else could remain the same but instead of square dancing, you would have modern day country dancing or line dancing as it is called today. The bridal accessories might include a unity candle with a little gold rope holding miniature cowboy hat and a ring bearer pillow with fringes and a cowboy hat holding the rings. The cake topper might include a cowgirl and a cowboy or two western hats joined together."

So you must know
"We went swing dancing and line dancing. It was pretty much like old times when nothing else mattered and no one else existed."

Fitness perspective
http://www.circleyou.com/blog/2008/10/dancing.html
Line Dancing (or Bootscooting) is very popular, easy to learn, a good way to keep fit and you don't need a partner.

http://www.oneidadispatch.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20164711&BRD=1709&PAG=461&dept_id=68844&rfi=6
" Dancing challenges the mind; it's a kind of exercise and therapy for young and old."

http://www.birminghammail.net/lifestyle/family-life/keep-fit/2008/10/14/looking-to-get-fit-then-let-s-dance-97319-22029551/
"...line dancing helps build stamina and heart and lung capacity"

Gold’s Gym — Ten Fittest Presidents of All Time
"Before “Dancing with the Stars,” George Washington enjoyed jigs and country dancing."

Fastest Way to Lose Weight - I Hate the Treadmill!
"Dancing is another great way to get your daily workout in and lose weight. If you are into country music, try some line dancing. Most cities have at least one country bar with a dance floor that has line dancing lessons on certain nights of the week. It’s great exercise, lots of fun, and a super way to shed some pounds fast."

Line dancing to contemporary music draws crowds
"Good dancers or not, these participants have met new people, tested their skills and made progress with fitness goals."

Health Perspective
Brain cells start to grow
"A new study suggests that seniors who line dance, play bridge or a musical instrument may be doing more than just having fun: They may be warding off the risk of developing dementia, including Alzheimer’s, a progressive brain disease which afflicts four million Americans."

Just For Fun
http://rawh1de.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-on-monday-morning-after-working-12.html
"I WENT OUT COUNTRY DANCING WITH MY FRIENDS LYNDSI, PAIGE, AND KATHRYN....i have to admit that i was a little bit anxious at first but I HAD A BLAST"

The tale of the cowboy boots
"Man, did he look amazing in those boots. Maybe he could take up country dancing. The Achy Breaky was really big right now! Line dancing, that might be fun eh."

Hint, Hint... see... men, it's okay to go watch! ;)
http://itsorangenotred.com/2008/10/one-thing-ill-give-poker-players.html
"...our lack of country-dancing skills rendering us both helplessly beta-male, lingered on the rail of the dance floor observing the action. We initiated one of countless similar conversations we've had in the past that focus on evaluating the modern-day dating scene."

See, I'm not the only one who loves to line dance :)

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the 'Chicken Fried' that makes this vegetarian line dance

A couple weeks ago I was out line dancing at Prospectors just after I heard a new good song on my Nashville friend's myspace blog. The song is called Chicken Fried and I like it a lot! It is one of those down home feel good songs. Anyway, to my surprise, Joe played it and I believe we did a Canadian Stomp to it. It worked but look what I just found... ohh yeah! TOny & Lana Wilson choreographed a line dance to Zac Brown's song "Chicken Fried". I'm looking forward to learning this one!

UPDATE: Look what I just saw online... for all you Jersey cowgirls & cowboys:

ZAC BROWN BAND
Thursday August 28th
$5 Cover Doors open at 6pm
@ Prospector's

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Chicken Fried Line Dance Steps (Step Sheet)

CHICKEN FRIED
Choreographed by Tony & Lana Wilson, 7-2-08, ukwtony@theriver.com
keedance@juno.com, www.tucsondancer.com
32 Count, 4 Wall, Intermediate Line Dance
Music: Chicken Fried, Zac Brown Band, 85 bpm,
CD: The Foundation, Buy it on
32 intro - Begin after he starts singing, on the words "chicken fried".
Live Nation Artists Label, Release Date for CD - August 26, 2008
www.myspace.com/zacbrownband


FWD-LOCK-FWD, 1/2 PIVOT & STEP, WEAVE, SIDE, UP STOMP
1&2 Step L forward, lock R behind L, step L forward
3&4 Step R forward, pivot 1/2 left, step R forward
5&6& Step L to left, step R behind L, step L to left, step R over L
7-8 Step L to left, drag and stomp R beside L no weight

SIDE, CLOSE, SIDE-CLOSE-SIDE, FWD, TOUCH TOUCH, BACK-LOCK-BACK
9-10 Step R to right, step L beside R
11&12 Step R to right, step L beside R, step R to right
13&14 Step L forward, touch R toe behind L heel twice
15&16 Step R back, cross step L over R, step R back

SIDE-&-CROSS, SIDE, SIDE-&-CROSS, 1/4 TURN SHUFFLE, 1/4 PIVOT
17&18 Step L to left, step ball of R behind L, cross step L over R
19 Step R to right
20&21 Step L to left, step ball of R behind L, cross step L over R
22&23 Turn 1/4 right shuffling forward RLR
24& Step L forward, pivot 1/4 right weight on R
Note: On counts 17-21, body is angled towards right diagonal

CROSS, 1/4 TURN, SHUFFLE 1/2 TURN, ROCK FWD, RECOVER, COASTER
25-26 Cross step L over R, turn 1/4 left stepping back on R
27&28 Shuffle LRL turning 1/2 left
29-30 Rock forward on R, recover on L
31&32 Step back on R, stepping L beside R, step R forward

Begin Again


Ending: On 9th pattern, starting at 12:00, dance 1-18. (You will be facing 6:00. )
Add: 19&20 Step R to right, step L to left, turn 1/2 right
stepping R forward.

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Video instructions for the Chicken Fried Line Dance

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Here's a Youtube Video the Zac Brown Band performing the song Chicken Fried

Send me the link to your video doing or learning this dance... I'll post it here!
:D

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Dance for energy

As I browsed technorati this morning, I came across this super interesting post. In Europe, nightclubs are going green with these power generating dancefloors using something called piezoelectricity. As people bounce about the floor, the movement on the floor is converted into evergy and stored in batteries. How cool is that?! Dance for a cause :)

Read this story on engadget or the whole story on inhabitat.com.

Alan Jackson, Good Time & a line dancing record

I'm really into AJ's new song Good Time! It's one of those songs that I turn up... it puts me in one of those good - I'm singing while driving my truck with the windows down - bopping along - kinda songs.

Alan Jackson is trying to set a world record for the longest line dance spanning cities and according to www.newschannel5.com/global/story.asp?s=8280872 , states. Yeah, it said, "It takes a massive casting call to put together a music video on this scale." I want to know why I didn't get the memo! I would have been all over that!

Well, I'm looking forward to seeing this video at the end of the month when it's released. Very cool!

Here's the Good Time Line Dance on youtube...

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Here are the steps for Good Time Line Dance ... I found them on the Alan Jackson Website

Good Time Dance Steps–
Alan Jackson - Good Time -
40 count, 4 wall line dance
Choreographed by Jenny Cain, Nashville TN

1-8 Toe, Heel Steps
Walk forward R (1,2) L (3,4) R (5,6) L (7,8)

1-4 Side Steps
R out to R side (1), slide back together with L (2)
Repeat exactly (3,4)

[More:]

5-8 Front Grapevine to R with a spin
R out to R side (5), Spin to R {full turn & back to original position}
(6), R out to R side(7),
then together & clap (8)

1-8 (REPEAT LAST 8 COUNT EXACTLY, BUT THIS TIME TO THE LEFT. Simply replace the R's with L's above)

1-6 Knee lifts while going backward
Bring R knee up (1) & down (2), Bring L knee up (3) & down (4),
Bring R knee up (5) & down (6)
{each knee lift should be at an angle and not straight in front. Also each step down should be placed slightly behind so that you actually are walking backward)

7-8 Jump Steps
Jump in place landing with feet crossed R over L (7)
Jump, quarter turn in air to L, landing with feet apart (8)

1-8 "Cha Cha’s" or "Shuffle Steps"
cha cha forward- R together R (1 and 2)
L lunge forward, rock & recover (3,4)
cha cha backward- L together L (5 and 6)
R lunge backward, rock & recover (7,8)

1-8 "Shimmy Steps" or "Bounce Steps"
R out to R side {body slightly down} (1,2)
Bring L together {standing back up straight} (3,4)
R out to R side again {body slightly down{ (5,6)
Bring L together {standing back up straight} (7,8)

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Update: June 6th 2008 CMT posted "Choreographing the World’s Longest Line Dance" on their blog.

Cape May line dancing doesn't look too likely this summer

From the Cape May Gazette...

"With two repair estimates coming in at more than $300,000, Cape May City Council will not repair Convention Hall for use this summer, it was decided at a workshop meeting Tuesday, May 6."

http://cmnews.shorenewsnow.com/2008/05/06/convention-hall-will-stay-closed-for-the-summer.aspx

Not good news! It doesn't look like there will be any dancing at Convention Hall this summer :*(
Go figure... the summer that gas prices are expected to hit 4 bucks a gallon. My favorite free summer line dancing destination on the beach less than a gallon of gas away from home is no more... at least for a while.

I am going to sulk and think of more reasons I Love Country Boys... that'll cheer me up!

Cape May line dancing isn't looking so likely tomorrow night

I just heard some bad news about the Cape May Convention Hall. I just saw the post, "Convention Hall closed for structural worries" on the Cape May Gazette's breaking news. That must mean that the last dance of the spring will probably be canceled for tomorrow night.
I hope the Convention Hall reopens by June 27 when the free line dancing is scheduled to begin! I bet there are lots of Jazz Festival goers who are hoping it reopens by April 18 too. The jazz fest is a pretty big deal in Cape May.

Line dancing in other places in south jersey are still happening! Of course, there is still line dancing at the Scullville Fire House. Also, Debbie is going to be teaching a 6 week beginner line dancing class evenings at Ocean City High School. I'll try to find out the details but you can find out more information by calling Ocean City High School.

Wednesday in Scullville at the fire house, we got a nice surprise! Ken's sister sang Patsy Cline's "Crazy" for us. That was followed by a duet of Ken & his sister singing Kenny Roger's "The Gambler". They were both excellent! Can you beat line dancing and free surprise entertainment? I think not!

When you go dancing in Scullville, they give you a ticket at the door. Ken & Debbie do a drawing for a free pass. I've been going dancing for 10 years and I've won about 3 free passes until two weeks ago. Two weeks in a row I won a free pass. It was great! I feel lucky! I think I need to break out my old Mary Chapin Carpenter cd and listen to that song!

Anyway, sorry to be the bearer of bad news about line dancing tomorrow night in Cape May. There are country back-up plans in the area though...
If you are into Eric Church , he's performing at Prospector's. The tickets are $25 at the door and $20 ahead of time. He's the guy that sings "Two Pink Lines", "How 'Bout You", and "Sinners Like Me". He's pretty good! My favorite part of seeing shows at Prospector's is that you usually get to meet the artist & take a photo with them... and there's line dancing! Holla!

Well, I'll continue to pass on any information I hear about Cape May Convention Hall.