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Please see details below, and let me know if you can come dance for these folks! Even if you don't know any fancy routines, etc., you can social dance and help if we do a beginner lesson.
-fg

What: Fall Festival celebrating St. Josephs Hospital health care for homeless and poor
When: Saturday October 6, sometime between 10:00am and 2:00pm
Where: Downtown Atlanta, across from King Memorial MARTA station on Decatur Street

Here's the email from the event organizers:

> >Hi, Bill. We're hosting a simple Fall Festival in our administration
> >parking lot, so our expectation is strictly to have fun. Two years ago
> >we had children and teens from the Latin American Association who did a
> >folk dance and some Salsa. There were about 10 in one group and 8 in the
> >other. They danced on our asphalt parking lot--we don't have a dance
> >floor. Last year we had some lovely jazz dancers from a local church.
> >All of these folks were amateurs, and we loved them!
> >
> >We are a non-profit offering health care and health related services to
> >the homeless, poor, uninsured and underinsured. We host this festival to
> >honor our clients and have a tiny budget that includes feeding everyone
> >a hog-dog lunch. So our volunteer entertainment is really important to
> >us. It makes the whole event. Any kind of lively dancing would be great.
> >I have no idea what kind of swing! Of course, with the asphalt, lifts
> >and drops wouldn't be a good idea. If more than one couple would be
> >interested in performing, that would be wonderful. We have a DJ, so we'd
> >only need a CD of the music required.
> >
> >Our event is on Oct. 6, 2007. We're located right across from the MARTA
> >King Memorial Rail Station on Decatur Street. We begin at 10 a.m. and
> >pack up at 2p. Anytime the dancers could come within that time period is
> >fine. And, of course, they're invited to lunch. This would be so
> >exciting. I really hope someone will be interested in helping us out.
> >Guaranteed to make ya feel good--honest!

Great news! We've been contacted by Megan Boyd with a performance troupe in Athens who have some routines they'd like to perform for our October 6 event for St. Josephs Hospital. More lindy = more better. The event organizer says our group could go on 2-3 times for 10 minutes each, so we'll have the Athens group take at least one of those slots - look forward to dancing with y'all.

I've had several great follows respond about this event, but just one lead so far...