17th March 2026

Welcome to our new dancers and welcome to those returning. We had a lovely time with our Barn Dance (Western Partner Dance) and you all picked it up so well! It was lovely to see you twirling around the dancefloor. We recapped Shirts and Skirts by Jamie Barnfield, danced to Man! I Feel Like A Woman! (Real Hypha Remix) – Shania Twain twice, fit in a new teach of Ah Si! by Rita Masur, and danced to Levantando Las Manos – El Simbolo and ended the night with Glass of Wine.

Next week our new teach is Rocket to the Sun by Maddison Glover, and danced to What You’ve Done To Me – Samantha Jade. You can find the music video and demo video below the videos from tonight’s teaches.

The following week (31st March) we won’t have a new teach as we have an earlier start, but also an earlier finish for our The Great Easter Prize Bingo Hoedown night. We will be starting at 5:30pm and dancing up to 7pm, at which time we will switch to the Prize Bingo portion of our evening. Dancers will get their standard bingo ticket books included, and there are additional flyer games available too. Who knows – you may win.

Also, new K’s Kicks classes start in Chirk Parish Hall next week. Our afternoon class starts 12pm-2pm on Thursday 26th March, and our evening class starts 7pm-9pm on Friday 27th March. These classes are also Absolute Beginner/Beginner classes.

Tonight we danced the following dances:

Videos for the music for this week’s new teach – Levantando Las Manos – El Simbolo —– WARNING: If you are photo-sensitive or sensitive to flashing lights please DO NOT watch this video – please use this alternative link instead:

And a demo video for the dance – Ah Si!, choreographed by Rita Masur, with this ‘Freestyle’ video being provided by Richard Munden. As discussed in class this has a similar style to ‘Shake It (Fireball)’ that you already like:

Videos for next week’s teach – Song: What You’ve Done To Me – Samantha Jade:

And a demo video for the dance – Rocket to the Sun, choreographed by Maddison Glover:

Have you seen our new line dancing and country music themed items in our Shop? We have t-shirts available in multiple colour and size options, as well as matching mug options. Let your mug question for you is it “My left, your left or the actual left?” instead of when we’re dancing. Why not treat yourself today?

Notes:

The stepsheet links in the dance diary table above will take you through to Copperknob – most line dancers consider this site their ‘bible’ as it contains all of the published line dances danced out there.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Copperknob is completely FREE to use (unless you download the app, which there is a small upfront fee to download from your preferred play/app store). If you click on anything in Copperknob which tries to charge you for anything then you have clicked on one of the adverts within the site that helps to fund the site (helping keep it free of charge) – just hit your back button and you will be fine. One of the adverts, confusingly, does prompt you to “watch video” – on your phone, please scroll to the bottom of the dance instructions to find the actual uploaded videos to go with the dance; on your computer/laptop these videos will be on the right-hand side.

Song titles marked with * in the above list show that we have danced to the original (or one of the tracks considered original) music set to the choreography, otherwise we have danced to a song swap.

What you can find on Copperknob:

• The dance stepsheet – these can take a bit of getting used to when it comes to reading them to understand the steps. Usually a top line of each section (often in bold text) will summarise the steps included in that section, followed by a breakdown of each individual step. If anyone would like me to go through any stepsheets with them, please catch me in a break.
• Details of the dance – by this I mean:
  • The level of the dance – for most of our classes we will only be concentrating on anything from these levels:
    • Absolute Beginner
    • Beginner (including Easy Beginner & High Beginner)
    • Improver – NOTE: this will be a long way off, however, I have included this as a small selection of the older Improver dances would now be considered Beginner or High Beginner level dances based on tags and/or restarts becoming more common, even in Absolute Beginner dances.
  • How many walls the dance is – the number of different directions we start the dance from
  • How many counts the dance is – how many steps for a complete wall of the dance
  • The choreographer and when the dance was submitted to Copperknob
  • Details to the suggested or original music track used for the dance, along with the artist it is by and which version (where there are multiple versions widely available).
• A YouTube link to the music track – this is usually to the original track that the dance was choreographed to. Sometimes there will be multiple ‘original’ options specified in the sheet, so there may be more than one Music video link.
• A YouTube link(s) to a Demo video – dances that have received overwhelming responses and reactions to them will often have multiple demo videos accompanying them, mostly recorded by various line dancing classes and group, and sometimes even by other choreographers themselves. A demo video is simply the dance being performed/danced with no other explanation. Some may have the steps called out, but most are often just a demonstration of the dance. Where a demo video has been uploaded by the choreographer these are often the best videos to watch first as they know the steps inside out – they wrote them! However, as you find yourself watching more and more demo videos you will start to pick up on regular contributors and find the ones with a style that you like most. The above YouTube video for Glass of Wine was a demo video recorded by Richard Munden, who is actually the choreographer for the dance we do to the Gavin & Stacey version of Islands in the Stream.
• A YouTube link(s) to a Teach video – unlike the demo videos, any videos that state Teach on the description will also break down and give instruction on how to learn and dance the dance. I will caution that in rare cases a Demo video can get uploaded as a Teach video, but usually if you check the video all of the way through this is because some upload combined videos. I particularly like the format AB Coasters use where they will demo the dance for the first part of the video, then follow it with a breakdown of the steps.

Tips for getting the most out of Copperknob:

• Sign up for an account – it’s FREE. You can get so much more out of Copperknob when you are logged in.
• Create lists – lists can help you organize dances in the Copperknob site. Think of it like a bookmarks bar on your favourite internet browser – except it is nicely self-contained within Copperknob. Handy, right?
  • Once you are logged in, click on “My Lists“.
  • You will have a “Favourites” created by default, but if you want multiple lists (e.g. I set up “Learned”, “Learning”, and “Want to Learn” lists) you can create more by clicking on the “Create New List” button.
  • If you create a new list it will add to your list of lists as “*New List*” – click on the cog settings icon and you can change the name of your list. You can even change the list colour if you want.
  • Once you have created your list you can then start filling it. In each step sheet there is a star icon underneath the votes labelled as “Save” – click on this icon, or the word “Save”, and tick the box for the list you want to save the stepsheet into.
  • You can save stepsheets in multiple lists.
  • To access your list, click on “My Lists” at the top of the screen (or in the 3 horizontal lines/cheeseburger menu button on mobile views) and click on the list you want to open.
• Vote – choreographers put a lot of work into creating their dances for us to enjoy. If you like a dance that we are doing, please show it some love by adding your vote (out of 5 stars) to the Copperknob system and help their dance to remain in the line dancing charts for others to enjoy. You need to be logged in to be able to vote.
• Comment – if you really like a dance the choreographers love to hear this. There is a comment section at the bottom of each stepsheet screen (you may have to scroll past a lot of videos for very popular dances) where you can let the choreographer and others know you like it. Sometimes you will see questions asked in this section about specific steps in the dance, or suggestions for song swaps for the dance.