Take the steps today that will bring forth great joy. If a dance is a pattern of steps for delight, then we will practice our patterns for pleasure and step lightly into the places where joy resides activating the streams of its bright light. Shining joy and dancing in the light of it is our true opportunity today, reveling in all the well being we bring to ourselves and to those who we encircle in our thoughts.
Today we honor those in laughing spirit for our Joy filled moment:
Kate • Linda • Sandy • Mike • Josh • Max • Bonnie • Sid • Edie • Leetha • Lynn • David • Laura • Emily • Fran • Dorothy • Karen • Ginny • Claire • Pamela • Trudy • Chris • Brian • Brett • Joy • Mary Ann • Michael • Flora • Gordon • Barb • Karen • Della • Pat • John • Martin • Lucy • Joan • John • Kismet • Zoe • John • Judy W • Judy S • Raim • Gerrick • Julie • Wanda • Dawn • Sharon • Jerry • Ava • Ann • Kristen • Kevin • John • Hannah • Astarte • Jennifer • Mimi • Philomena • Pamela • Flo • Lizzie • Brianna • Sam • Donna • Chris • Liz • Patty • Roz • Myra • Maya • Dana • Tony • Al • Melanie • Lynda • Bennie • Louie • Melanie • Bonnie • Maggie • Irene • Michael • Sandy • Esther • Andrew • Jeni • Dan • Victoria • Bebe • Breann • Tim • Lou Lou • Barb • Pat • John • Jim • Kathy • Dawn • Lindsay • Diddy • Karen • Eileen • Liz
Celebrate our marvelous musical history as we reinvite the National Barn Dance back in through the passages of time to enjoy this growth of musical opportunity that began at the eighth street theatre in Chicago Illinois in 1933. One of the first American Country Music Radio programs that later resulted in the formation of the Grand Ole Opry. This weekly musical radio program was heard across the Midwest through broadcast, with stars producing on stage shows at the theatre and across the country in traveling shows. The National Barn Dance enthused and inspired listeners and recording hopefuls alike and brought Country and Western music into the forefront of the American music scene.
Be inspired by what we can do today that is new or unusual and follow the dreams of the heart. Let those dreams become our inspiration and intention and let the joy become the vehicle that moves it from passion to production. Let the end result be a product of well being, an accomplishment of vital proportions and a feeling or thing that recycles the joy back to give again. That is how we know that there is a positive truth in it. Enjoy the journey to and from joy!
The National Barn Dance 1924 – 1952
Musical Memories Are Made of This
“Clanging cowbells, “hayseed humor,” and old-time string band music signaled the Barn Dance’s 7:00 p.m. start every Saturday night, and live audiences and at-home listeners regularly tuned in until the program ended at midnight.”
Kristine M. McCusker, 1998
“When I sing for you on the air, I always visualize you, a family group, sitting around the table or the radio, listening and commenting on my program. Some of you have written in and said that I seem to be talking right to you, and I am. If I did not feel your presence, though you be a thousand miles away, the radio would be cold and unresponsive to me, and I in turn would sound the same way to you.” Bradley Kincaid, Performer National Barn Dance
“It’s a little known fact that Gene Autry, the most successful singing cowboy-turned-movie star of all, launched his storied career from the NBD. So did Patsy Montana, whose 1935 recording of “I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart”—remembered with far more musical reverence than those singing cowboys—sold millions of copies.” Chad Berry on the Hayloft Gang
Joy is Made with Sound and Movement
