Green Mountain Cloggers
Exhibition Dance Team

I was honoured to be invited by one of our wonderful members, Brean Mead, to view a concert at the Barre Opera House for the Vermont Fiddle Orcestra this past Saturday night!!

Brean Mead has been an active member with the VFO playing fiddle for the past 5 years, and she simply FLOORED me. She was amazing! I feel so gosh darn lucky to have such a multi talented member of our group. Brean even accepted the invite to accompany us this summer for a routine playing fiddle while we dance! I am excited to see the progress on how that goes!

This performance with the VFO at the Barre opera house had special guest fiddlers and singers, and they WERE even expecting a famous clogger named Ann Whiting! (Search Ann online she has some amazing history to her talents!) During intermission I was invited to perform on stage with the Vermont Fiddle Orcestra for there last number! I was honoured to be called on stage! It was amazing..... I have never felt so welcome to participate, and they even invited me back again to acompany them for another performance! Thank you Brean for that amazing experience. The whole night was simply amazing!~

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Barre classes have been going simply wonderful! We have grown so much since our move to joni's School of Dance in Barre! I want to take the time to welcome some new members, and aknowledge a few who have been with us almost a YEAR now!!

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS!!!!!!

Sue, Tammy, Brean, Claire, Stephanie, Jamie, Laurel, Maddie, Linda, Emma, Lilly, Joanne, Jackie, Kelly, Liam, Meghan, Sally, Cecile and Jasmine!!!

The members listed above have been with us any where from 1 week to 4 months!

These members listed have spent ALOT of time dancing weekly with us, and even participated in shows already with in there FIRST year!!

THANK YOU!!!!  Winnie, Brittany, Maureen, Kyleigh, Holly, Lydia, Loretta.

With out ALL of you, we would not be possible!

ALOT of sponsoring has been going on!! I am really impressed with everyone's efforts!!  I see ALOT of sponsorship awards being given out at next years annual banquet!!! CONGRADS!!

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TO ALL MEMBERS!----

This IS the time of year to gain new members.... interests in something other than being house bound are going through everyone's head, and finding a way to exercise with out expensive gym costs are also on the mind. Remember to always talk about your team, and the fun with your new friends that you have weekly at our classes together. THIS IS HOW WE GROW! By word of mouth.

Please make paper posters to tack around at school, work, your local country store, the post office, ANY WHERE!!  Ideas for your posters can be what ever you like as long as important information is posted such as....

The full group name:

Green Mountain Cloggers Exhibition Dance Team

Class info:

Classes in Barre VT EVERY SUNDAY from 1-3 PM offering soft soled Irish step AND Clogging .

Classes also offered in Northfield EVERY SUNDAY from 6-8 PM.

ANY age, for males and females, children or family's! No shoes needed to start lessons!

DONATION ONLY LESSONS. Requested donation of $15 a MONTH for BOTH Irish step & clogging combined at BOTH studio locations. Family's never make a donation of over $30.00 for any family size!!

Contact info:

Contact Hillary Barcomb at (802)-522-2935

E-mail at: GreenMtnClogger@aol.com

( Sponsorship awards are given out at our annual banquet! )

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Honestly there are so MANY things that can be done to help this group if any one of you chose to do so. Along with making flyers to promote your group,  you could take class photos and e-mail them to me, sending me e-mailed letters of your experience at classes so I can write up weekly news that actually comes from the dancers as a whole! As well as finding areas of interests that YOU could see you self WANTING to perform at! I want to be where you all want to be...that is important to me.

I teach you all this wonderful gift of dance so we can share that love with others. Performing is much more than the excitement of it, or the fun of the traveling with our friends.....it is what WE ARE ALL ABOUT! Giving BACK to the communities of Vermont and beyond! Sharing our love and talents for dance with everyone, and representing what a professional non-profit dance organization is all about.

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR BEING HERE!

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I also want to WELCOME back BAILEY FLORES!!  I am so excited to have her back as an active member on our team!

Bailey has come back to audition with us for the Mud Season talent show where our team has been the longest running act for 11 years! We plan to make a great come back and have some exciting moves to share,.. with some deep beats coming from out feets!! LOL 

Thanks Bailey for offering your help and coming back to save our routine! It was a gracious, unselfish offering for you to make to us......we will NEVER forget it!

Our Northfield classes have been going fantastic. One member needed to with draw from the pressures of the talent show, and she will GREATLY be missed. This practice that we had last night was spent catching Bailey up on the steps, and changing around a couple dancers spots. By the end of class we already had it right back to speed again!

I think we are ALL excited about this years routine. It is offering some new ideas, and new steps, with out forgetting about some of our trade mark ideas from years past! It is sure to be a great combination to bring the crowd to there feet!

THANK YOU TO MY WONDERFUL ADVANCED DANCERS!!!:

Cora, Jacob, Bailey, Brittany, Robin, Tira, Justin

Speaking of Brittany, Justin and Jacob as well... there routine for the "Mud Kickin' Cloggers" is going FANTASTIC. Lots of formations moving around, great foot work, and new arm movements. I am REALLY impressed with my teen group and I feel that they are going to take this whole organization to a new level!! I am excited to see them audition for the Mini Mud Talent show!! GREAT JOB!!!!

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At this time I am completing this week's news. I really hope that EVERYONE has a fantastic Christmas. I hope everyone got their Christmas cards.... I have a few more to mail out still!!

At present time our ACTIVE group member number has jumped to 33!! I am just overwhelmed with this participation level..... you all set the example for ALL new members.... Keep um' coming everyone! The more the merrier!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON TO EVERYONE!!