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Storytime! (9:00-10:00pm EST)

“Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters” is an illustrated children’s book about Muddy Waters, and the art style is very cool.

Julie Brown will read this book aloud while you can see the pages and enjoy the illustrations. We’ll stream a bit of Muddy Waters’ music afterwards.

This will be a Facebook Live event, so tune in here to join the fun.

Tune in via Zoom for a cool online talk from Mike Legenthal!

*Blues vocals & vocalists* (7:00-8:00pm EST)
An exploration of some of what makes blues vocals so special. The talk will include some discussion of particular blues vocalists, vocal techniques, and what makes a singer sound like blues or not-quite-blues.

Zoom meeting here: https://zoom.us/j/204086841

Suggested donation: $5-10 to paypal.me/mikelegenthal
Mike makes a living through dance, so if you can, please do donate!

We’ll be hosting a virtual dance this week, from 9:00-11:30pm with DJs Amy Kucharik and Mike Sonder streaming their music online.

During the event, we’d love for you all to post pictures of yourself tuning in from home or videos of y’all dancing to the sets remotely!

Tune in here for the DJ sets! https://s2.radio.co/sc2b7811ea/listen

Join the video chat here, **PLEASE MUTE YOURSELF**: https://meet.google.com/jiy-ymuy-bqs

To pay our DJs and help the Blues Union venue owner, suggested donation of $5-10, depending on what you can afford:
https://paypal.me/BluesUnion?locale.x=en_US

Blues Union will be canceled this week, and likely in the coming weeks. We are preparing remote alternatives to stay in touch, keep learning, and keep loving the blues, so please stay tuned!

UPDATE: As an online replacement, tonight we’ll have an Ask Me Anything (AMA) about blues dance and blues social questions with Kal Anderson and Joey Science.

Brew yourself some tea and join the chat here from 7-8pm.

Join us this month as we focus on partnership dynamics in:

Extended Topics: Stringing It Together! (7:00-8:00)
with Joey Science
You can shimmy, you can shake, but can you lead and/or follow cool moves? This class will take some of the basic moves and floor patterns that you see in beginner classes around town and weave them together into cooler and hotter moves for your blues dancing pleasure. You should know how to lead or follow inside and outside turns, and be able to lead and follow traveling turns and spot turns to get the most benefit out of this class.

Blues Basics: Partner Conversation (8:00-9:00)
with Charlene Chow and Kal Anderson
This month, we’ll work on the basics of how followers and leaders build a dance together in blues, and how partners each express their personal style while leading or following.

Each lesson is $5, You can also pre-register for the entire month at:
https://bluesunionboston.com/product/march-2020-classes/

Blues Union requests that you refrain from wearing fragranced products, including but not limited to colognes, after-shave, fragranced lotions, perfumes, hair spray, or similar products. This especially helps community members with fragrance & chemical allergies & sensitivities, but also makes the space safer for everyone. Learn more here: http://hedonish.com/accessibility-fragrance-and-chemical-sensitivities/ or see our FAQs for more details.