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  Every beginning of August, there’s a place that I always love going to when I was a kid. This place is the Douglas County Fair. I’ll never forget my first time I went there with my family. We went on all the rides, go down the fun slide, ate some foods, and had a great time. The first time I went was with my mom and dad. My folks really loved it, especially the farm animals in the showcase. It was in the beginning of August and almost the end of July, the day we went there. It was a really fun time to enjoy it for the very first time. If I could reminisce the second time I went there, it would be my dad and I. We would hang out together, go to the fair and do the same thing we did like last year. Oh, and there’s also this thing that I almost forgot to mention earlier. There’s live entertainment. There’s even games, prizes, airbrushed shirts, and plenty more to think of. In the future, I will plan on going back there for old time’s sake. That other time was when I took my stepsist...

  Here at Americana Music Academy, it's the place for  offering lessons, workshops and concerts featuring the music America plays. It's also the home for fiddling and picking music. Now what happens if you added some line dancing for a special occasion or special event? Well, I'll show you a picture to prove it. This is an art of line dancing that I've once done when I was in school. You wanna know what this dance really is? That's square dancing! And I tell you right now, I haven't done that ever since them. What is a square dance, you ask? I'd be very happy to tell you all about it. A square dance is a dance for four couples, or eight dancers in total, arranged in a square, with one couple on each side, facing the middle of the square. Square dances are part of a broad spectrum of dances known by various names: country dances, traditional dances, folk dances, barn dances, ceilidh dances, contra dances, Playford dances, etc. These dances appear in over 100 ...

  Hello there folks, and welcome back to my monthly blog. Today's blog entry is a very extra special one. So please listen carefully. I was on The Lawrence Kansas Club on Facebook the other day and I found out about Flamenco Dance Classes at The Lawrence Dance Gallery which is in November this year by a friend of Meghan Collar named Melinda Hedgecorth. My next part of the plan is that when I come back to Lawrence Kansas, maybe I can make plans to learn some flamenco dancing with Melinda. That would be really appreciated for me to do that. Don’t you folks agree with me? Have you ever heard of flamenco before? If you haven’t yet, here’s the story about it. Flamenco  is an art form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern  Spain , developed within the  gitano  subculture of the region of  Andalusia , and also having historical presence in  Extremadura and  Murcia . I know plenty of dances I learned when I was in high school. I...