March update 2025 - Expo, new learners and club birthday.

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February saw our return to dancing for 2025 and our now regular stand at the Bundaberg Move It Expo on the 16th.

This year was our first time at performing a demo at the Expo. A high energy team showed off the basics of square dancing and the exercise potential for the mind and body. 

Matt started with the 126 beats per minute, Move It, hoedown and explained while calling, that he was running the routine while the dancers had learned each of the movements, not the routine. This has been cut into a short promo ad which you can see below. 


Next Matt ran a significantly faster hoedown followed by a signing call,  Troublemaker. To see the full demonstration you can go to our You Tube channel playlist. Thanks go to Matt, the dancers and others who helped at the stand for making it a great club promotion.

The following Tuesday was the first of our three Come and Try nights. We have had eleven people come and try square dancing over that time. The final night included a surprise supper for Pancake Tuesday. I am looking forward to seeing how many will be continuing with our twelve week learner program. 

On Friday the 7th of March we celebrated Cane Country Squares 42nd birthday. The night included the Tuesday night SSD group, alternating with Plus level dancing. 

Laura and Adrian were chosen to cut the cake and supper consisted of a variety of "something small" to share, brought in by members. 

Previous years cakes, during the times of extra Covid concerns, had been turned into cupcakes rather than a large cake. Sandy went to the extra effort of combining these two themes with tiny cupcakes.

We had a good turn out with two squares for SSD and one for Plus. The hall was decorated and lots of us dressed up in our club colours of green and yellow / gold.

The night also included a humours poem from Sandy, lucky door prize of a box of chocolates and a raffle for a breakfast tray including sausages, bacon, eggs, avocados and other breakfast fruit and vegetables.

Go to our 2025 photo gallery, https://canecountrysquares.blogspot.com/p/photo-gallery-2025.html and video page, https://canecountrysquares.blogspot.com/p/videos-2025.html to see more of the night.

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