Dancin on the Avenue 2016

The 21st Annual Dancin on the Avenue is coming up soon!

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Three music stages - will feature an eclectic mix of live music and entertainment.

Toree McGee is playing on the Golden 1 Credit Union Stage (Corner of Willow & Lincoln).

She starts at 3 pm with sets performed until 8 pm.

Adam the Dancing Cowboy is going to be teaching between Toree's sets at the following times:

4 to 4:30 pm

5:30 to 6 pm

The Round Table Pizza Community Stage will present performances by local dance groups.

The Kids’ Court area will have lots of games and crafts for the family-friendliest part of the festival.

LOCASH & Chris Cavanaugh at Rodeo Club

This Thursday 4/21, join KRTY, Adam the Dancing Cowboy and all your friends at Rodeo Club for LOCASH! Opening the show is Chris Cavanaugh.

LOCASH sings favorites such as:

• I Love This Life
• Best Seat in the House
• C.O.U.N.T.R.Y

Tickets are $10 advance at the KRTY offices during business hours (M-F, 9a-5p) or $15 at the door, if supplies last. This is a 21 and over show.

Having Trouble Finding a Fun Activity for Your Team Building Event?

Your job is to find a fun activity to include in next month's team building event and you're stuck. Many events require you to leave the hotel you booked to host your team build, find transportation for everyone to and from the activity and all the lost time during that movement of people. You're starting to stress out...

Don't worry! Line dancing is a fun team building activity and we can bring it to your event. We bring the PA system, music and a fun instructor to your location and teach your team fun & easy line dance lessons. We start with super easy material and progress at a speed that makes sense for the people on your team.

Contact us today to book us for your corporate team building event! Or call 408-890-7940

Drake White at Rodeo Club!

Drake White at Rodeo Club

We are proud to bring you another up and comer to Rodeo Club! Drake White will be playing on Wed 3/16. Tickets go on sale Mon 2/29 at the KRTY office (750 Story Rd, San Jose, CA) and are $10 each. Cash only, please. This is a 21+ only show. To see what line dances we will be learning before the Drake White show, check out our Rodeo Club Concerts page!

What Direction Do I Face For Line Dances?

What direction do i face?

People just starting off with line dancing have tons of questions. This is the first in a serious of dance floor etiquette posts. So what direction do I face for line dances? Well, the answer to that is not so easy. But, thankfully there are usually only three options and almost all dances face off facing the audience or side of the bar where most of those not dancing are sitting or standing. After the start there are those three options for how many walls the dance restarts facing.

1. Four Wall Dance - This is the most common type and the dance usually restarts 1/4 turn and you end up facing each wall at least once, hence the 4 wall dance name.
2. Two Wall Dance - This is the next common and you start facing the audience and then after finishing the sequence of steps, you end up facing away from the audience. Each start begins 180 degrees from the previous.
3. One Wall Dance - There are very few line dances that only face one wall after each set of steps is finished.

Really, all the matters in line dancing is that you're having fun while respecting those around you. So, if you forget a turn, no worries! Just get facing the same way as everyone else and begin with the next step that you recognize. Happy dancing!

1. What direction do I face for line dances?
2. What if more than one dance is happening at the same time?
3. What direction do we face for couples dances?
4. Drinks on the dance floor.
5. What line dance do we do to a particular song?

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A Thousand Horses at Rodeo Club - 9/28

A Thousand Horses at Rodeo Club

Republic Nashville recording artists, A Thousand Horses, will be at Rodeo Club this coming Monday 9/28.

I will be teaching line dance lessons starting at 7:30p and Chasin Crazy will open the show after that.

You can get more details about the Rodeo Club concert tickets and line dancing here.

Tim McGraw at Shoreline CANCELED

Tim McGraw at Shoreline Canceled

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

The Tim McGraw Shotgun Rider concerts tonight (September 18th) at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA and tomorrow (September 19th) at Irvine Meadows Amphitheater in Irvine, CA have been cancelled due to illness. Tim McGraw has been placed on vocal rest by his doctors.

"This is so disappointing to me. We've had such a great summer and I was looking forward to this final weekend with the fans in California. I appreciate the support and look forward to coming back soon. The word 'can't' is just not in my DNA, if there was any way I could sing, I would do it," said McGraw.

All tickets will be refunded at point of purchase.

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Also, 95.3 KRTY will be hosting Chase Bryant at the Broken Spoke tonight 9/18.

Doors: open at 8p. $15 cover

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Chase Bryant at Broken Spoke

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Dance Floor Etiquette

Line Dancing Etiquette

When you go line dancing, you see all these people on the dance floor and everyone seems to know what dance to do, what direction to face and where to stand on the dance floor. How does that happen? Other than taking dance lessons for specific dances, there is actually a loose set of rules that helps prevent chaos, and to be honest sometimes fights, on the dance floor. In the next few weeks, I will go into some of the dance etiquette that makes country line dancing easy and fun to do wherever you go! We will talk about:

1. What direction do I face for line dances?
2. What if more than one dance is happening at the same time?
3. What direction do we face for couples dances?
4. Drinks on the dance floor.
5. What line dance do we do to a particular song?

These are just a few parts of Country Dance Etiquette and I hope you stay with me to learn about each one.

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Chris Cagle at Ranch 1917

This Saturday 9/27 come see Chris Cagle with Bucky Covington, Chris Janson & Maggie Rose at Ranch 1917! This is a brand new venue and I'm really excited to be part of the Pre Concert Roundup out in the parking lot! Free line dance lessons & party music go from 12 noon to 2:30 when the gates open for the concert. I put together some information about the venue and places to see here at the Ranch 1917 Concert page.

Hope to see you there at noon for some fun and then an amazing show after!

Group Studio Line Dance Lessons

Group Line Dance Lesson San Jose

On Tuesday 3/11 we are having this month's installment of the San Jose Line Dancing Meetup! This month we are learning "Ain't Goin' Nowhere," and, "Bar Room Romeo." We meet at a dance studio in Campbell, and you can get more information about joining us at the Meetup here!

Chase Rice & Sam Hunt at Rodeo Club

Chase Rice at Rodeo Club

Chase Rice & Sam Hunt will be at Rodeo Club on Wed 2/26! Join us for a fun night of live music and dancing! Chase Rice is the guy who wrote "Cruise," for Florida Georgia Line and Sam Hunt has written songs for Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban and Billy Currington!

Adam the Dancing Cowboy will be teaching line dance lessons at 7:30p and the show will be after. Doors open at 7p.

Jon Pardi & Kelleigh Bannen at Rodeo Club

Join us at Rodeo Club for the Jon Pardi CD release party on Friday Jan 10th, 2014! Each ticket includes a copy of his new CD, Write You a Song! Adam the Dancing Cowboy will kick off the evening with line dance lessons starting at 7:30p and Kelleigh Bannen will be opening the show after!

New Year's Eve Western Dance - San Martin, CA

New Years Eve Western Dance - San Martin, CA

This year on New Year's Eve 2013/2014 the San Martin Lions Club will be holding a Western Dance they have dubbed the, "NYE Cowboy Ball!" Their will be LIVE music to dance to by The Wild West Show. Put on your boots and BYOBooze, as they will be providing coffee and water for the duration of the night.

They say to eat dinner FIRST, and come out for a night of dancing since doors open at 7pm.

Late night breakfast will be served just after ringing in the New Year at midnight.

Entertainment: The Wild West Show Location: 12415 Murphy Ave, San Martin, CA Time: 7pm to ??? Drinks: BYOBooze, free coffee & water all night.

Tickets are available at Rocca's Market in San Martin or at http://sanmartinlionsclub.org/. $35 in advance (until December 29) or $45 at the door.

Crash My Party by Luke Bryan

Before the album Crash My Party came out, I had only heard the two singles, "Crash My Party," and "That's My Kind of Night," in their recorded version.

When the album came out tonight, I listened to rest of it and came to one conclusion. Just about ANY song would have been better than "That's My Kind of Night" (winner, winner, catfish dinner) to issue as a follow-up to "Crash My Party."

The rest of the album has the familiar combination Luke usually brings to his music, great lyrics and good music.

I would definitely recommend Crash My Party, and you even get a digital download if you buy the physical CD. How can you go wrong there?

Due West, Charlie Worsham & Austin Webb @ Rodeo Club

Due West, Charlie Worsham & Austin Webb

This Friday night, 7/26 head out to Rodeo Club in San Jose! I'm going to be teaching line dance lessons before the Due West, Charlie Worsham & Austin Webb show. Doors open at 7p and lessons start at 7:30p. We are teaching Boot Scootin' Boogie & Cowboy Cha Cha that night.

Tickets are $10 advance at KRTY offices during business hours or $15 at the door.

KRTY offices, 750 Story Rd, San Jose, CA

Rodeo Club, 610 Coleman Ave, San Jose, CA

Country Axis in Santa Clara - CLOSED

I want to THANK everyone who came out to support the Grand Opening and the following Thursday nights that we taught lessons and DJed at Country Axis! Unfortunately, after only a little over a month, they decided to cancel Country Axis Thursday nights. It takes quite a few bodies coming in the door to keep a club of that size open on a weekly basis, and the numbers just didn't support a Thursday country night during their opening month. Quite a few factors go into that including other closely timed country events, but I want to thank each of you who did come out to dance, to have fun and to support country in the South Bay.

At some point in the future, they might come back with another plan for country, but for now they are discontinuing Country Axis on Thursday nights.

Country Axis in Santa Clara - Grand Opening!

Country Axis in Santa Clara, CA

SANTA CLARA, CA - Thursday March 21st is the Grand Opening of Country Axis at Club Axis in Santa Clara! This is going to be the ONLY 18+ Country night club in the Bay Area! Randy Jones will be hosting the night & I'm going to be DJ'ing with DJ Anthony and teaching line dance lessons (lessons start at 7:30p). Cover is only $5 for 21+ and $10 for 18+. March Madness will be on the TV's for those basketball fans who don't want to miss that action. There is a restaurant inside too!

Right next to Embassy Suites, you can find a place to stay just a walk across the parking lot. No shuttle needed.

Country Axis will be EVERY Thursday and we would love to have you come and and join us for a FUN time!

Mountain Charley's in Los Gatos

Mountain Charley's in Los Gatos, CA

Tonight at Mountain Charley's in Los Gatos, CA I'm going to be DJ'ing and teaching line dance lessons for FREE! That's right, no cover charge. The Giants will be on the TV's there kicking Detroit's butt before the music starts at 9pm. Round up some friends and come dancing!

Gloriana at Rodeo Club!

Gloriana at Rodeo Club

This Wednesday night October 5th, Gloriana will be in concert at Rodeo Club in San Jose, CA! I'm going to be teaching line dance lessons before the show and DJ'ing for line dance & country couples dancing as well.

Come out for the show and learn some line dances too!

50th Birthday Party in San Francisco, CA

Last night I DJ'ed and taught line dance lessons at a 50th birthday party in San Francisco, CA!

They started the evening out with an amazing spread from a local catering service and I played some country music in the background.

After dinner we provided some fun & easy line dance lessons and then played Top 40 and 70's by request.

These people surprisingly had some stamina and danced the night away!

Do you know anyone having a country themed birthday coming up soon? Send em our way!