New line dancing line up!

Line dancing is making a comeback a the Creetown Country Music Festival! After a few years when admittedly our line dancers haven’t been so well catered for, we’ve teamed up with an expert, Audrey Watson from Stranraer. We are delighted to announce a great new line up of demonstrations, displays and workshops for Saturday 20th hosted by Audrey and her dancers the Centre Liners.

Audrey will be leading line dancing in the street from 1pm till 2pm with old and new line dances, and the Centre Liners are planning a demonstration and display full of surprises. Some line dancing workshops will then be on offer for both beginners and experienced dancers in the main music venue, the Big Tepee, during the Saturday afternoon.

Audrey, who is an award winning choreographer and has taught line dancing internationally, says she is looking forward to returning to the festival:
"I have led a workshop before at the festival back in 2005, just before I won the Crystal Boot for my dance ‘Be Strong’. We had a brilliant day and met some lovely people who we still keep in contact with, but this is the first year I have been invited by the committee to advise them on the line dance side of things. "

"As well as the workshops I’m looking forward to joining the Centre Liners display team, Lorraine, Sue, Gail, Heather, Lorna, Cheryl, Sherrieann, Angela, Helen and Elizabeth, who have all given up their spare time to put together a few dances to demonstrate to the crowd, with some great fun ideas thrown in which we hope will give the crowd a laugh and let everyone see what great fun line dancing is."

Audrey is also hoping to bring the Creetown Country Music Festival to a worldwide audience, and is working with Linedancer Magazine, the main publication in the line dancing world, to report back on the festival and to film the event for their Onlinedancer website.

"This will be a great opportunity for Creetown Country Festival and for Galloway to be seen by people all around the world. I have many people who drop into my classes from far and wide, this year we have had dancers from Denmark, Western Australia, Norway and France and they all say the same, what a beautiful part of the world we live in. With the coverage Linedancer Magazine are giving we shall hopefully see some line dancers from far and wide coming to enjoy next year’s Creetown Country weekend."

"It should be a great weekend, there’s a lot of effort gone into the festival this year, and we’re really looking forward to meeting old friends and making new ones, entertaining the crowd and encouraging people to give line dancing a try for themselves."