Green Mountain Cloggers
Exhibition Dance Team

Hello everyone!

Very exciting month we have happening!

Very IMPORTANT!:

PLEASE view the calendar page for updates on shows that are booked through out the summer.

I encourage you ALL to please make notes to wether you can attend certain shows or not.

I need this information so I can make sure I have enough dancers, and also not too many either!

Please do this as soon as you can to make my job a bit easier.

I was happy to be requested to teach at the beautiful Ballet Wolcott dance studio this past week, and my class students were just great! I had so much fun and would go back anytime they asked! I even made it into the local paper and have gotten e-mails, and phone calls from the newspaper photo about our classes!

I was also given a huge surprise when I saw us in " The Sentinel" news paper. A HUGE write up and photo all about our group and what we do! Thank you so much to the Sentinel for doing that for us.

Since that write up we were requested by a Barre business owner to participate in the Irish Heritage Festival parade down main street in Barre March 14th!

Also from that we got ANOTHER exciting phone call from the booking manager for the VT Frost Heaves! We performed at the half time show for their game March 14th as well!

I want to thank Cora Carpenter for managing this event in my absence! I am very excited to have the group doing these events! (I showed up just in time to perform with the group.)

The beginning of this month also brought the Tech/Dress rehearsal for the Mud Kickin' Cloggers and there debut on the Chandler Music Hall stage for the 3rd annual " Mini Mud Show". They did just a totally fantastic job. Stretching together, practicing, and hanging out in the dressing rooms will be a memory I will have for a long time. I am so proud of you all!

This month also brings the NEW web page especially designed and set up for our most loved teens!

Please visit the Mud Kickin' Cloggers on their web page off of our very own site!

This month was also our audition with the advanced GMCEDT members for the BIG " Mud Season talent Show".

I believe this is the 15th annual?...lol Gosh it has been such a long time I have been a part of this production. I think this is our 12th year if we make it through auditions.

 I will be honored as usual to be performing in this show and bringing in some senior members to this performance as well as some new dancers joining us for this exciting event!

We have been working on this routine since October of 2008, and hope to have a good enough rough draft for the audition after tomorrow class for our audition.

I am very excited as I know the other dancers are too as well!

The performance date for that is April 17th & 18th at the Chandler Music Hall on main street in Randolph Vermont. Tickets are for sale on the Chandler Music Hall web site.

UPDATE: The audition went so great and afterwards we all went up stairs to the gallery to take some cool group photos.You can view our audition video in our video gallery, and  all the new photos in our photo gallery!

I have designed and ordered road signs, and a matching new banner for our workshop, ( with logo above to represent our workshop) as well as working with Brean Mead ( Barre member) on designing and creating brochures that we will use through out the summer and of course offer to guests and spectators at our workshop.

 I also have designed and ordered buttons that have matching printed info from our workshop filled in them to give to guest as a thank you!

We are all also planning baked goods to sell at our 2nd annual Vt Western & Folk Workshop, as well as items to be donated to raffle off for expenses that our group needs to pay.

Items that can be raffled:

Hand made jewelery, maple syrup, hand made afgans or quilts, etched wine glasses, gift baskets of handmade soaps or other hand made items....I want to have items that are hand made in Vermont or certainly hand made items from our very own members!

I hope the raffle is a success to cover costs that our organization has to cover for this event and other fees.

Please consider donating goods to sell through out the day, and also items for our raffle.... and maybe offering your time running the table, or greeting guests. Any helping hands are welcome!

Please let me know if you can donate time, baked goods, and possibly more will be needed as we get closer! I appreciate all the help I can get!

PLEASE let me know if you can NOT come to the workshop... I hope to have as many as I can for the group photo!

This is a HUGE event yearly for our group. I hope to have you ALL share in the day, meet members from our own group that you may not know yet, and help out the group. I want to have fun spending the day together as a team...but mostly as friends!

I am ordering MORE group t-shirts that will be NEEDED if you are a member spending the day with us at the workshop. We also take our annual FULL (BOTH locations), group photo, and GMCEDT group t-shirts are needed for that as well!

PLEASE let me know if you need a t-shirt so I can get one to you as soon as the order is complete!

More business cards are on their way as well as 25 promotial pens for our group.

I also designed and ordered car magnets for my car. I feel this will allow great publicity for our group, as well as allowing for easier access to the show locations for our dancers and equipment! They look great!

I am seeking new members.... please do your part to publicize our group and help raise members yearly. It is an on going job and I hope to spread our wonderful classes to all of our communities! If anyone needs help sponsoring a new member please call or e-mail me for ideas.

HAPPY MARCH ALL!! See you real soon!

Love, Hillary~