Club 40th Birthday Weekend, March 2023 - Friday Night Photos

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Our callers for the weekend was Steve Turner from WA, Nev McLachlan from the Sunshine Coast and our own caller, Matthew Mills. It was great to see many of our new club dancers experiencing a dance of this size for the first time. 

We all enjoyed the fun and challenge of different calling voices and styles and sharing the floor with so many others from out of town, many travelling from Brisbane. A good sized group came from Hervey Bay and a small bus load travelled from the Sunshine Coast. New dancers commented, how much they learnt from the feature callers and the experienced dancers from beyond Bundaberg.

After the cancellation of so many events all over Australia during the pandemic and missing the chance to run our own dance in 2020, this was a very special weekend for our club. To be able to celebrate 40 years for Cane Country Squares as an event gave us the opportunity to bring out memorabilia and create new items for future events. 

Fran made our new banner as a stage back drop, Sandy brought along old dance badges and ribbons from her parents collection and the square dancing dolls. Alan H provided the bulk of the plant collection used in Coronation Hall with a few from Jo R. Jo L got her sisters to run the kitchen with supper each night and sausage sizzle on Sunday. Jo K also helped in the kitchen and on the door with George for the whole weekend. 
Photos from our 40 year history ran as a digital slide show on a TV and a computer was also available at Coronation Hall for anyone to check out our website. We would also like to thank all who helped decorate and clean up after the dances in both halls.

Friday Night, 10th of March was held at the Kepnock Hall, 42 Totten Street in Kepnock, Bundaberg. This hall isn't airconditioned so as expected, it was a little warm but that didn't stop the floor being filled with enthusiastic, smiling dancers.

Most dressed up for the occasion with lots of traditional square dance attire, fancy petticoats and twirling skirts on the floor.

The callers ran brackets for SSD, Mainstream and Plus as a trio, in pairs and individually giving them a chance to dance too.

It was lovely to see Matt and Anita Round Dancing with Bev McLachlan Cueing.

This was such a great weekend with too much to cover in one post. With Rob and Jo R taking photos and videos all weekend, going through them is taking a little time. The follow up story covering the rest of the weekend should be online in the next day or two. Event photo and video galleries will take a few weeks so watch this space.


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