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Honkytonk Night
Get ready for Honkytonk Night featuring Doug Bishop & the Hurtin’ Horsemen! Join us in person for a night of honky-tonk fun.
❤️ AN IMPORTANT UPDATE FROM BOOT SCOOTIN’ BOOGIE ❤️
We have an important update to share with our dance family regarding our Dance Socials.
For the past two years, we have worked hard to bring you monthly dance socials — and we have poured a lot of love, time and energy into making each one special.
After COVID, we took a couple of years to rebuild before returning to regular monthly socials. We wanted to make sure we were ready to create the kind of events we envisioned and give them the time and attention they deserved.
Over the last two years, we have been incredibly proud of what we created.
And, based on your feedback, so have you. ❤️
We have received so many wonderful comments and rave reviews about our socials — the decorations, the atmosphere, the service, the music, the affordable pricing, the included snack plates and, most importantly, how welcome and enjoyable the entire evening feels.
Those comments mean the world to us.
But there is another side to putting on these events that we need to acknowledge.
As wonderful as the events have been, attendance has not been strong enough to make monthly socials sustainable.
After giving monthly socials a good two-year run, we have made the decision to move away from a monthly social schedule and instead offer a smaller number of special dance socials throughout the year.
❤️ THIS IS NOT GOODBYE TO OUR SOCIALS!
We will still have our New Year’s Eve events, along with other special dance nights throughout the year.
We simply won’t be committing to a social every month.
And in some ways, this gives us the opportunity to make the socials we do offer even more special.
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🎶 WHAT ABOUT LIVE MUSIC?
We absolutely love live music, and we know how much our dancers enjoy sharing the floor with talented musicians.
Live music isn’t disappearing. ❤️
Going forward, live-band socials will be something we offer more selectively rather than on a monthly basis.
There are many elements involved in creating a live-music event — the musicians, sound production, venue and all the details that go into creating a great evening.
We want to continue bringing live music to our dance community whenever the right opportunity comes along, while being more thoughtful about the number of live-music events we take on.
Live music will still have a place at Boot Scootin’ Boogie. It just won’t be an every-month commitment.
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🎵 BUT WHAT ABOUT RECORDED-MUSIC SOCIALS?
This is where we’d really love to hear from you!
Would you attend a social featuring carefully curated recorded music instead of a live band?
We could take requests and build playlists specifically for our dancers — creating a great night of Country Music, dancing, friends and fun, without needing to have a band at every event.
The goal would still be exactly the same:
🎵 Great music
💃 Great dancing
❤️ Great people
🎉 Great atmosphere
Just a different format!
So tell us in the comments:
🎸 LIVE BAND — A live band is what makes a social special for me.
🎶 RECORDED MUSIC — I’d happily attend a recorded-music social!
❤️ I’D ENJOY EITHER! I just want more opportunities to dance.
Your feedback will help us decide what future socials might look like.
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❤️ A LITTLE SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
There’s something else we’d like to share from the heart.
Attending a live-music event is about so much more than the band, the dancing and the friendships we make along the way.
It’s also about supporting the musicians who give their time and talent to entertain us.
Behind every band are real people with families, bills to pay and households to support. When we buy a ticket and show up to enjoy an evening of live music, we’re helping those musicians continue doing what they love and putting food on their families’ tables.
And sometimes, that means remembering that we don’t all have to agree, see eye to eye or have a personal connection to enjoy the same music and support the same community.
Life is too short, and our local music scene is too valuable, to let personal differences keep us from enjoying something wonderful together.
You don’t have to be best friends with everyone in the room. You don’t even have to agree on everything.
But you can still share a dance floor. You can still applaud a great band. You can still choose to support the musicians who bring people together through music.
❤️ THERE’S ALWAYS ROOM ON OUR DANCE FLOOR, AND EVERYONE IS WELCOME.
If you’ve felt hesitant to attend one of our events for any reason, please know that the door is open.
There’s no expectation other than coming to enjoy the music, treating one another with kindness and sharing in the experience.
We would love to see our dance and music community come together, support live music and remember what brought us all here in the first place.
Sometimes, the best way forward isn’t about settling every difference. It’s about choosing to enjoy the things we can share.
And if showing up to support a band means putting our personal differences on the side burner for an evening, perhaps that’s a pretty wonderful place to start. ❤️
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💃 AND THE GOOD NEWS — LINE DANCE IS GOING STRONG!
While we’re making some changes to our social events, we want to make one thing very clear:
OUR LINE DANCE LESSONS ARE GOING NOWHERE! ❤️
Our line dance program is going strong, and we are excited about continuing to grow and expand our line dance offerings over the coming year.
Regular lessons, pop-ups and new opportunities to learn and dance will continue to be a big part of what we do.
So while you may see fewer socials on the calendar…
YOU’LL BE SEEING PLENTY OF BOOT SCOOTIN’ BOOGIE ON THE DANCE FLOOR! ❤️
We have some exciting things planned, and we can’t wait to share them with you.
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❤️ HELP US SHARE THE LOVE
One of the things that has meant the most to us over these past two years has been hearing what you think about our socials.
We’ve heard things like:
“The decorations are amazing!”
“I love the atmosphere!”
“The music is fantastic!”
“Those snack plates are such a nice touch!”
“I can’t believe you keep the price so affordable!”
“We had such a great night!”
And every time we hear those things, we know we’re creating something special. ❤️
But it got us thinking…
What happens after you leave?
Does the person you danced with know about us?
Does your friend who loves Country Music know where you spent your Friday night?
Does another dancer know that there’s a place where they can come and dance with us?
There are so many people who may simply not know we’re here.
And that’s where our dance family can make a huge difference.
❤️ IF YOU LOVE WHAT WE’RE CREATING, HELP US INTRODUCE SOMEONE ELSE TO IT.
Tell a friend about the night you just had.
Bring someone who hasn’t been before.
Share our event posts.
Invite your friends.
Send the post to that friend who is always looking for somewhere to dance.
And if you’ve ever sent us a message, email or comment telling us how much you enjoyed one of our socials — send it our way again!
We’d love to share your words as real testimonials from our dance community so others can see what our dancers experience when they walk through our doors.
You don’t have to write anything fancy.
Just tell us what you loved. ❤️
Send us a message, email us, or even send us a photo of your handwritten note — we’ll take it from there!
Because sometimes all it takes is one person saying:
“You have to come to this with me.”
And that one person becomes two.
Two becomes four.
And suddenly, we have a dance floor full of people who are discovering what you’ve already discovered.
That’s how a dance community grows. ❤️
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❤️ SO, WHAT’S NEXT?
We’re going to step back from monthly socials, be more selective about the special events we offer, continue looking for opportunities to bring live music to the dance floor, and listen to your feedback about recorded-music socials.
And we’re going to keep growing Boot Scootin’ Boogie.
This isn’t goodbye.
It’s simply a new chapter. ❤️
At the end of the day, these socials aren’t really about the decorations, the music or even the venue.
They’re about YOU.
The dancing.
The laughter.
The friendships.
The hugs.
The people who walk through the doors and become part of our dance family.
We want to keep creating those moments for a very long time.
We aren’t closing the dance floor. We’re making sure we can keep it open for years to come. ❤️
Thank you to everyone who has supported our socials over these past two years. Thank you for coming out, dancing with us, sharing your kind words, bringing your friends and helping us create some pretty wonderful memories.
We appreciate you more than you know.
We hope you’ll continue to dance with us, support live music when you can, and help us make our dance community a place where people can come together, enjoy themselves and feel welcome.
The music brings us together. The dancing gives us a reason to stay. And there’s room for everyone on the dance floor. ❤️
— Boot Scootin’ Boogie Line Dance
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