Green Mountain Cloggers
Exhibition Dance Team

WOW... what a CRAZY July!!

We started our month off with the Randolph 4th of July festival where we won 1st place last year for " Civic Group". We were honoured to make this our 16th year in the Randolph parade.

We were once again able to use a truck & trailer from Riverside tractor...I want to deeply thank them for their generosity and help in making the parade possible for us!

We were really excited to have Libby perform with us in the parade..it has been a long time since we performed together, and it truly was a blast!  I want to thank our extra special helpers, Shawn, Rosanne, Chris, Maddie, Jamie, Laurel, Jay, Chad ( hopefully I am not forgetting any one!!) and ALL of our dancers too of course.....As always thank you to EVERYONE who participated and helped make this event a success!

We were saddened that the  Lyndonville Festival was cancelled due to weather issues in their area.  I really hope to get a chance to perform in their area next year, and hope that they invite us once again!

We have had a TON of double bookings recently do to a sudden increase of interests in our performaces! We are soooo excited about this!

We made a trip to Woodstock once again this year dancing like we did last year at Thompson Senior center, and ALSO picked up a new booking at the Woodstock Terrace. Both locations were fablous with really excited folks, who made our performance exhilerating!  Thank you for inviting us. 

I do not normally do nursing/senior centers any more because we were traveling all over the state so much for SO MANY locations, and working on donations only it became more of a expense than a profit. I never made even...... I LOVE performing at these events, but I only travel to them now if I am requested and they are more local to us.  I truly hope all these locations find us exciting, friendly, and professional.

Today brought the close of the July performances for us....and WOW what a day!  Another double booking for two fantastic events. Each event we attended today was a new booking!  The Barre Heritage festival and Lamoille Co Fair. 

We opened our day with a 9:30 AM performance at the Barre Heritage Festivcal being this is right in our home town for our group! We invited our great friends with the Step In Time Line Dancers of Central VT to come and dance with us. I really wanted them to have a chance to get some central VT exposure for their classes and maybe get  some new students and bookings. It was such a FANTASTIC idea!!  I really enjoyed it as I KNOW the rest of the group did too. They are a wonderful bunch of folks to be around, and work with! 

 We danced a couple songs then pulled them back up for one, and did a rotation sharing our booking and stage with them. We ended the show for a final number in stage all together performing the electric slide. It was a blast doing some line dancing again. 

I proudly gave them an open invitation to share ANY performance with us when ever they like. It was the first time I have done this, and I certainly do NOT regret it!  It was simply wonderful. I hope that the Step In Time Line Dancers enjoyed themselves. We were happy to give them the donations from our buckets to help with their expenses to share the show with us!

After the Barre Hertitage festival  we gased up, ate lunch and headed to our next performance in Johnson VT for the Lamoille Co Fair. We arrived on time and truly were treated like professionals upon arrival. We were guided to our stage area, and greeted by the vice president , who also heads the entertainment. She made sure we were all set, and answered questions. This was our first time to this location , it was a beautiful drive, sun shining, and warm summer air.

We set up in a timly manner and performed our hearts out. The crowd was WONDERFUL!!  They clapped, and showed such gret energy and support through out our performance.

After the performance we were aproached by so MANY folks from the crowd who really loved the change in dancing entertainment. When the Vice President came back over after our show folks young and old walked right up to her and said.... " you HAVE to have them back again next year" ...wow how cool. So great of a feeling to know what we did made others happy!  I am pretty sure we are all secure for another booking at Lamoille Co Field days next year!  Thanks to ALL who attended this LONG day together, and really busted BUTT dancing and keeping our high energy profile on stage!

We also stayed to support a square dancing troupe that did a fantastic job performing and even teaching  a few routines to the crowd. the Lamoille Valley Swingers....thank you so much for your great conversation and information. I really hope to see a great demonstration at our annual workshop!  Keep in touch with us!

Classes resume weekly in Northfield and numbers are picking up RAPIDLY!! It is so exciting to see new folks arrive and have a blast at classes. Current active members numbers are up to: 25!

August 1st brings yet  ANOTHER double booking for Sharon Old Home Days, and the Franklin Co Fair.

We truly travel from one end of the state to the other performing for top notch fairs and field days. We are the busiest , most professional dance troupe in VT and really proud we have created such a great name for ourselves with our performances, classes and support towards other groups. Each and every booking seems to turn in to more and more requests to come back for more events with these folks. Which is a super great sign that we really put on a terrffic show!  Sharon Old Home Days has invited us back for another booking this year at a different event, as well as Orleans Co Fair!  ( on top of the performances already scheduled for this summer)

Please keep a close eye on our calendar as it seems that more and more performances will be added through out the summer with more double bookings to handle the high demand in our organization.

Take care everyone, see you around VT real soon!