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Here's What's New at the NFA! ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
National FastDance Association
1st Quarter Newsletter January - March 2023 |
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IN THIS ISSUE
- Membership 2023
- NFA Leadership
- Multi-day Events January-March
- New Members
- How About a Little Sax?
We again remind you that our new website is now finally up and running. It’s a VERY large website to say the least, but it shows all of our Member Clubs, our many multi-day dance events, our numerous Supporting Members that includes Dance Instructors and Deejays. We’ve also included multiple videos showing many of our various dance styles and important up-to-date copyrighted music information.
On our Home Page, you’ll find that we’ve even included a new “jukebox” feature where you can surf our site while enjoying lots of FastDance music that reflects many of our dance styles including Bop, Shag, Swing, Lindy, Country & Ballroom. We’ve even thrown in some of your favorite Line Dance and Disco music. Since sending out our 4th quarter 2022 newsletter, we have added another 20 songs to our jukebox. It won’t even cost you a quarter. So again, ENJOY!!
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Many of our affiliated Clubs, Events, Instructors & Deejays hit the ground running with their dance/music activities beginning the first of the year. We encourage all of our affiliates to complete the forms we sent out late last year and return them to us asap so that you can receive our Confirmation certificates. We realize it can be difficult to estimate how many attendees you will have for all of 2023, but just do the best you can. We can always reconfigure the numbers at a later date. If you have attendee credit transferred from 2022 you can adjust your 2023 number of attendees accordingly. Our PayPal account has become a little more reliable lately. All signs point to 2023 being a banner year for our National FastDance community. It’s about time that we all get back to some serious dancing!!
Stay up to date on new events and clubs, share virtual classes, or just hang out with us on our Facebook group 😎
Newsletter Editor
bill@fastdancers.com
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Bill Maddox, Founder/President
Founder - National Boppers Hall of Fame
Founder - Club Savoy Inc., Jax, FL
Co-founder - Florida Boppers, Inc. (FBI) Honored by induction into the following: Advisory Committee Ellen Taylor, Terry Rippa, Denny Martin, Phil Dorroll, John Lindo, Anne Henry, Ray Coker
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MULTI-DAY EVENTS January - March 2023
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1/1-1/8
UCWDC World Dance Championships
Phoenix, AZ
Randy Shotts
info@ucwdcworlds.com
www.ucwdc.org
1/11-1/16
Monterey Swing Fest
Monterey, CA
Benji Schwimmer
info@montereyswing.com
www.montereyswing.com
1/13-1/14
Texas Line Dance Jamboree
Waco, TX
Nikki Simpson
rockinredrodeo@gmail.com
www.texaslinedancejamboree.com
1/13-1/16
California Balboa Classic
Pasadena, CA
Steve Hwan
info@calbalclassic.com
www.calbalclassic.com
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1/19-1/22
Palm Springs Winter Break
Line Dance Festival
Palm Springs, CA
Bracken Heidenreich
brackenncv@gmail.com
www.palmspringswinterbreak.com
1/20-1/21
Island Winter Classic
Hosted by Hilton Head Island
Carolina Shag Club
Hilton Head Island, SC
Michael Salera
michaelsalera@yahoo.com
www.hiltonheadshagclub.com
1/20-1/23
Freedom Swing Dance Challenge
Wilmington, DE
Rob Baen & Sheila Purkey
robandsheiladance@yahoo.com
www.freedomswingdance.com
1/26-1/29
East Coast Shag Classic
Carolina Beach, NC
Penny Mills
penny@hopeabounds.org
www.hopeabounds.org
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2/2-2/5
Charlotte WestieFest
Charlotte, NC
Rick Dauss
rick@charlottewesties.com
2/9-2/11
Chickin’ Pickin’ by the Sea
North Myrtle Beach, SC
Hosted by Lake Norman Shag Club
Pat Hensley
pat.hensley@hotmail.com
www.lakenormanshagclub.com
2/9-2/12
Sweetheart Jamboree
Bellevue, WA
Ken Goolsby
kengoolsby@ymail.com
www.sweetheartjamboree.com
2/16-2/19
President's Day Weekend
Sacramento, CA
Hosted by: Capital Swing Dancers
Tom Paderna
csd.president@capitalswingdancers.org
www.capitalswingconvention.com
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2/16-2/19
Cincy Westie Bash
Cincinnati, OH
Sophy Kdep
sundancer9@saol.com
2/16-2/20
Sunshine N’ Line
Orlando, FL
Rachel McEnaney-White
sunshinenline@gmail.com
www.floridadancemasters.com
2/23-2/26
Rose City Swing
Tigard, OR
John Lindo
jl@johnlindo.com
www.rosecityswing.com
2/24-2/26
Lindy Diversion
Denver, CO
Caryn Carrasco
info@cmdance.org
www.cmdance.org
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3/2-3/5
Ft. Wayne Dance For All
Ft. Wayne, IN
Jamie Marshall
thejamiemarshall@att.net
www.ftwaynedanceforall.com
3/16-3/19
Liberty Swing Dance Championships
New Brunswick, NJ
John Lindo
jl@johnlindo.com
www.libertyswing.com
3/16-3/19
The Chicago Classic
Schaumburg, IL
April Prince
april@aprilprince.com
www.thechicagoclassic.com
3/16-3/19
Lindyfest
Hosted by Houston Swing
Dance Society
Buddy Steves
buddy@buddysteves.com
www.lindyfest.org
3/16-3/19
Peach State Dance Festival
Dunwoody, GA
Bill Robinson
peachstatedance@comcast.net
www.peachstatedance.com
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3/16-3/23
All Star Swing Jam
San Rafael, CA
Lauren Wood
allstarswingjam@gmail.com
www.allstarswingjam.com
3/17-3/19
CSRA Shag Classic
Augusta, GA
Hosted by CSRA Shag Club
Rodney Williams
rodneywilliams221@gmail.com
www.csrashagclub.com
3/24-3/26
Novice Invitational
Houston, TX
Peggy Bourque
peggy.bourque@att.net
www.novice-invitational
3/24-3/27
Texas Hoedown
Ft. Worth, TX
Carla Romine
texashoedown.dance@gmail.com
www.texashoedown.dance.com
3/30-4/2
City of Angels Swing
Los Angeles, CA
Helen Tang
helentang898@yahoo.com
www.cityofangelsswing.com
3/31-4/1
Diamond State Line Dance Event
Wilmington, DE
Joanne Brady
Joebrady1@verizon.net
www.jobrady.weebly.com
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Arthur Bragg, Dance Instructor
4435 Brookfield Dr.
Boulder, CO 80305
arthurbragg@yahoo.com
Amber Brand, Dance Instructor
4769 Pebblebrook Dr.
Monticello, MN 55362
amberbrand1@icloud.com
Tuscaloosa Ballroom Dance Club
Tuscaloosa, AL
Tim Kenny
tbdc.91@gmail.com
www.tbdc.org
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WHAT WOULD WE HAVE DONE WITHOUT THE 50’S & THE SAX?
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Looking back now, growing up in the 40’s & 50’s was a very, very unique & wonderful experience. The youngsters nowadays, those in their 30’s and 40’s, have no idea what they missed. No cell phones, no computers, very few TV’s. There were few, if any, High School dropouts. It was definitely a different time. Good grief, how did we survive?
Friday & Saturdays nights at the drive-in movies, Sunday afternoons after Church cruising Main St. in my ’53 Mercury with a carload of my buddies. Cruising through Bailey’s, Al’s, Ebb’s and the Crystal drive in’s where the waitresses came out on roller skates to take and then bring out our orders. Usually two Crystal burgers, a small order of fries, and a small Coke for about 37 cents. Up north, it was the White Castle.
In the early to mid-fifties, we experienced the transition from the 30’s and 40’s big band era of our parents to the brand- new rock & roll era. Virtually gone were Jimmy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney (George’s aunt), Patti Page, The Mills Brothers, and many other great musical artists.
In came Bill Haley & the Comets, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Richie Valens, Elvis and of course, Buddy Holly. While cruising, we still heard a smattering of the 40’s style of music on the car radio but soon pure rock & roll took over.
On Friday night, if we weren’t at the drive-in movies or cruising, we were at the Sock Hop in the High School gym Bopping, Handdancing or Fastdancing to rock & roll played by the deejays on their latest 45’s.
Nearly every song had the music instrument-of-choice, the Saxophone. Nearly every great rock & roll song had to have the Sax. The music just would not have been the same without it. On our website jukebox, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band express the sentiment and nostalgia of the kids who were fortunate to have grown up in the 50’s.
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