strathspey@strathspey.org:47227

ron.mackey

Re: Naming of bands on music

Dec. 1, 2006, 12:28 a.m. (Message 47227)

>Just a few years ago
> it was quite common for Country Dance Diaries to be printed without listing
> the bands playing!  I queried this once (I think it was actually on an RSCDS
> site) and was told there wasn´t room for that information!  That´s the first
> thing I´d want to know before I went to a dance.  An RSCDS branch has
> recently brought out a CD with one of Scotland´s top dance bands providing
> the music - and nowhere on the cover does it say who is playing!  All this
> does tend to suggest that to many Country Dancers steps and technique are
> more important than the music.

	There are many RSCDS tapes & CDs where one has to search to
find the name of the band.   Records often had a picture of the band on the
front but, even with them it was sometimes necessary to lookat the back of
the sleeve to see which band had made the recording.
	Could it be that so many of the RSCDS Hierarchy are RSCDS class
teachers and are so used to teaching with a musician when most of the rest
of us think of the bands on the canned music that we dance to?
:)
Happy Dancing
Ron  :)

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