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The MAD band plays on Sunday afternoons for community dances, which encourage musical partication by children and parents. The band is open to players at all skill levels and of any age, and an optional rehearsal directly precedes the dance.
MAD band has its own set of tunes (available for download here). Downloads:
Organizers include Louise McClure and Louise Senior:
Sept. 2008 Dear Mixed-Age Dance (MAD) Band Participants, Welcome back to another year filled with lots of wonderful tunes and friends! Community dances will generally be on the first Sundays of the month; however, MAD Band will not play for all of them. Some callers will ask for specific tunes that are not on our master list. These will be posted as soon as I know them, so you can print them out and learn them ahead of time. As of Sept. 17, here are the dates (rehearsals are 1:30 –2:45, dances are 3:00 – 5:00. All are at the Suzanne Patterson Center in Princeton, behind Borough Hall /Police Station: take the first driveway on the north side of Rt. 206, just south (towards Lawrenceville) of the Rt. 206/Nassau St. juncture): Sunday Oct. 5 NO MAD Band Sunday Nov. 2 Sunday Feb. 1 Sunday March 1 Sunday April 5 Sunday May 3 still tentative Musicians of all stripes (and ages, instruments, ability levels, etc.) are welcomed. If there’s a tune you don’t play, you may sit in and try to fake it or go out and dance for that one. Some people like to play just a few tunes and dance the rest of the time. The whole point is to have fun. Some tips for faking: play the first note of each measure, or of each group of three (In 6/8 time) or four (in 2/4 and 4/4 times) notes. If you can follow the printed notes with your eyes, even if you can’t play them yet, you’re halfway there. Some people learn best just by listening to the tune several times through before starting to “fiddle” with it, or even by watching someone else’s fingers. To let me know you’ll be coming, or if you have any questions, please e-mail me at tedmcclure AT att.net. Sincerely, Louise McClure
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