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Post by Bonobo on Jan 21, 2018 21:07:40 GMT 1
You probably don`t remember my films with my kids` performances 10 years ago. Kids dance on various occasions, sometimes just for fun. Granny Day Some Polish holiday - Krakow dance Polka dance Summer is coming - Belgian dance Mum and Dad`s Day - Russian cossack dance Farewell to kindergarten - Vienna waltz Polish Education Day - Ludvik 15 waltz Most frequently they dance on European Union or International Days: Polish Folk highland dance Irish dance Mexican dance African dance Pseudo samba There are contests for kindergarten kids Russian Kalinka dance Radetzky March Great American music for Jeanne!  Cowboy dances Grease - Mum`s Day Rock and roll - The Day of Baked Potato |
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Post by jeanne on Jan 22, 2018 2:15:50 GMT 1
You probably don`t remember my films with my kids` performances 10 years ago. I really enjoyed watching all of these videos! The kids do a great job, and they are so full of energy! This one is my favorite! Take Me Home Country Roads isn't exactly a cowboy song...it's more country/folk with a Bluegrass influence; but I like the cowboy hats anyway!  I sent the link to my oldest daughter. This song was her "anthem" when she packed up and moved to West Virginia a few years ago. She stayed there three years. It's a beautiful state! Now she's home (by "home" I mean New England), she's married and has a little boy, and she and her husband and son live in New Hampshire, but we all still love the song... |
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 22, 2018 9:08:27 GMT 1
This one is my favorite! Take Me Home Country Roads isn't exactly a cowboy song...it's more country/folk with a Bluegrass influence; but I like the cowboy hats anyway! I sent the link to my oldest daughter. This song was her "anthem" when she packed up and moved to West Virginia a few years ago. She stayed there three years. It's a beautiful state! Now she's home (by "home" I mean New England), she's married and has a little boy, and she and her husband and son live in New Hampshire, but we all still love the song... Now that I listen to it again, I like it very much, too. Nice music to dance to, with this drum section, sounds more modern than typical country. |
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Post by jeanne on Jan 22, 2018 13:07:34 GMT 1
Now that I listen to it again, I like it very much, too. Nice music to dance to, with this drum section, sounds more modern than typical country. Here's the version that was/is popular in the U.S.: It came out in the '70s when I was in college, so you must know how music you liked at that age sticks with you throughout your life... |
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 22, 2018 19:52:30 GMT 1
Here's the version that was/is popular in the U.S.: It came out in the '70s when I was in college, so you must know how music you liked at that age sticks with you throughout your life... Not bad, but I prefer kindergarten version. BTW, I recall reading the review of John Denver`s album in a magazine for young people around 1980. I just read and forgot it because that type of music wasn`t my genre, but I liked the countenance of the singer, he looked so boyish. |
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 22, 2018 20:00:22 GMT 1
I sent the link to my oldest daughter. This song was her "anthem" when she packed up and moved to West Virginia a few years ago. She stayed there three years. It's a beautiful state! Ooops, I cannot say much about West Virginia without googling. The only association I get about Virginias is plantations and slavery there. But probably West Virginia differs from Virginia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Virginia |
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Post by jeanne on Jan 24, 2018 23:22:40 GMT 1
)Not bad, but I prefer kindergarten version. BTW, I recall reading the review of John Denver`s album in a magazine for young people around 1980. I just read and forgot it because that type of music wasn`t my genre, but I liked the countenance of the singer, he looked so boyish. I really liked John Denver's music when I was young...actually, I still do. Unfortunately, he died in a tragic plane accident when his experimental home-made airplane crashed into Monterey Bay off of California in 1997 at age 53.  He co-wrote the Country Roads Take Me Home song as well as singing it. I find it so amazing that years after his death his work is still reaching places such as a kindergarten in Poland! |
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Post by jeanne on Jan 24, 2018 23:30:29 GMT 1
I sent the link to my oldest daughter. This song was her "anthem" when she packed up and moved to West Virginia a few years ago. She stayed there three years. It's a beautiful state! Ooops, I cannot say much about West Virginia without googling. The only association I get about Virginias is plantations and slavery there. But probably West Virginia differs from Virginia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_VirginiaWest Virginia has traditionally been a coal mining state and has fallen on hard economic times because of the shift away from coal as a fuel due to its polluting qualities. (Though Trump has said he wants to revive the industry.) West Virginia also differs from Virginia in its geography...it is very mountainous and not widely suitable for farming/plantations on the scale of Virginia. Many of the mountains are continuing ridges which go on for miles. One can leave the main road in the valley and take a mountain road that continually climbs for miles before reaching the destination. It's a pretty state, and to quote John Denver, "Almost Heaven, West Virginia..." |
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 26, 2018 23:03:22 GMT 1
West Virginia has traditionally been a coal mining state and has fallen on hard economic times because of the shift away from coal as a fuel due to its polluting qualities. (Though Trump has said he wants to revive the industry.) It's a pretty state, and to quote John Denver, "Almost Heaven, West Virginia..." 1 When politicians promise to revive sth, it usually means scam. 2 You probably mean Haven. Safe haven in the secluded mountains.  |
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 26, 2018 23:12:27 GMT 1
He co-wrote the Country Roads Take Me Home song as well as singing it. I find it so amazing that years after his death his work is still reaching places such as a kindergarten in Poland! The song and its creators have already entered the Hall of Fame of human cultural heritage and will stay there forever. I wouldn`t be surprised if some kindergarten kids performed to it in 200 years` time or even later PS. There were "cowboy" dances, there are also Native American ones. : |
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Post by jeanne on Jan 27, 2018 3:37:09 GMT 1
You probably mean Haven. Safe haven in the secluded mountains. Nope, I mean Heaven; as beautiful as Heaven...a heavenly place! Honestly, when I went to visit my daughter in WV during the summer of 2013, we hiked to a spot just like the one in this photo. It was called "Hanging Rock"! I'm sure there are plenty of spots like it in West Virginia, but it really was similar to this one. The only difference is that the valley below the one I hiked to was wider and had some farms along the river... This photo does give a good sense of the mountain ridges that run for miles! It's very different from the single individual mountains that I'm used to seeing in Vermont. |
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 28, 2018 11:00:37 GMT 1
This photo does give a good sense of the mountain ridges that run for miles! It's very different from the single individual mountains that I'm used to seeing in Vermont. Ridges are great, so regularly flat. |
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 4, 2018 15:26:44 GMT 1
From what I heard about US and the political correctness there, I guess dads- with- daughters dance is rather imossible there. |
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Post by jeanne on Feb 4, 2018 20:50:49 GMT 1
I think to some degree you are correct about political correctness dictating against Dad/daughter dances, but I do know there are still some instances happening...
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 4, 2018 20:59:01 GMT 1
I think to some degree you are correct about political correctness dictating against Dad/daughter dances, but I do know there are still some instances happening... It only corroborates the fact that stereotypes about countries/nations are never fully true. |
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Post by jeanne on Feb 4, 2018 23:15:36 GMT 1
I think to some degree you are correct about political correctness dictating against Dad/daughter dances, but I do know there are still some instances happening... It only corroborates the fact that stereotypes about countries/nations are never fully true. Agreed. |
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Post by jeanne on Feb 6, 2018 22:56:26 GMT 1
I think to some degree you are correct about political correctness dictating against Dad/daughter dances, but I do know there are still some instances happening... In fact, I was speaking to a friend yesterday who told me her grown son attended a father/daughter dance with his two young daughters just this past Saturday evening! |
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 13, 2018 12:57:01 GMT 1
I think to some degree you are correct about political correctness dictating against Dad/daughter dances, but I do know there are still some instances happening... In fact, I was speaking to a friend yesterday who told me her grown son attended a father/daughter dance with his two young daughters just this past Saturday evening! Great that there are people who stand up and fight for their rights despite social limitations. Greek dance Spanish dance Krakow dance |
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Post by jeanne on Feb 14, 2018 0:30:30 GMT 1
I definitely think children in American schools need to do more dancing...it's good for the body and the soul!
Sadly, something like dancing is seen as "stealing time" from the subjects of reading and math in our schools...it's all about raising test scores.
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 14, 2018 19:07:32 GMT 1
I definitely think children in American schools need to do more dancing...it's good for the body and the soul! Sadly, something like dancing is seen as "stealing time" from the subjects of reading and math in our schools...it's all about raising test scores. Polish schools have a similar attitude to dancing. The films I posted are from kindergartens. |
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 11, 2018 22:04:13 GMT 1
Jeanne, you said Take Me Home Country Roads isn't exactly a cowboy song...it's more country/folk with a Bluegrass influence; but I like the cowboy hats anyway! But they do wear hats in a clip below. Modern Country roads original |
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Post by jeanne on Mar 12, 2018 1:50:10 GMT 1
Jeanne, you said Take Me Home Country Roads isn't exactly a cowboy song...it's more country/folk with a Bluegrass influence; but I like the cowboy hats anyway! But they do wear hats in a clip below. Modern Yes, they do wear cowboy hats in this clip, however, this is a very odd video depicting characters in the wrong place and during the wrong time period for the song "Country Roads." It is definitely a setting in the western part of the U.S. during the time of the "Wild West" (with a gun-fight, horse drawn wagons, etc.) which makes the song an anachronism within the video. The song says "the radio reminds me of my home far away..." Radios did not exist as part of the wild west culture! Signs in the town pictured here say "Lubbock." We know there is a Lubbock, Texas, with Texas being a western state with a cowboy culture. The lyrics of the song speak of WEST VIRGINIA, which while it has the word "west" as part of its name, is located in the eastern most part of the U.S.! The Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah River are also mentioned, landmarks of the eastern U.S. This video is the authentic use of the song. It shows scenes from W.Virginia and the Blue Ridge Mountains. (Except maybe the very last scene which seems to have some mountains that do not look like either the Blue Ridge or the Allegheny Mountains which are both in WV. The houses/chalets in the final scene look out of place for WV also.) Admit it, Bonobo, "Take Me Home, Country Roads" is in NO way a cowboy song! It is the type of "mountain music" prevalent in the Appalachian area of the U.S. with its roots in the Scots/Irish music of the first settlers there. It's part of that particular culture, and those living in West Virginia and other Appalachian areas would faint and then recover to be very angry at their music being referred to as "Cowboy Music!".... |
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 12, 2018 20:14:19 GMT 1
Yes, they do wear cowboy hats in this clip, however, this is a very odd video depicting characters in the wrong place and during the wrong time period for the song "Country Roads." It is definitely a setting in the western part of the U.S. during the time of the "Wild West" (with a gun-fight, horse drawn wagons, etc.) which makes the song an anachronism within the video. The song says "the radio reminds me of my home far away..." Radios did not exist as part of the wild west culture! Signs in the town pictured here say "Lubbock." We know there is a Lubbock, Texas, with Texas being a western state with a cowboy culture. The lyrics of the song speak of WEST VIRGINIA, which while it has the word "west" as part of its name, is located in the eastern most part of the U.S.! The Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah River are also mentioned, landmarks of the eastern U.S. This video is the authentic use of the song. It shows scenes from W.Virginia and the Blue Ridge Mountains. (Except maybe the very last scene which seems to have some mountains that do not look like either the Blue Ridge or the Allegheny Mountains which are both in WV. The houses/chalets in the final scene look out of place for WV also.) Admit it, Bonobo, "Take Me Home, Country Roads" is in NO way a cowboy song! It is the type of "mountain music" prevalent in the Appalachian area of the U.S. with its roots in the Scots/Irish music of the first settlers there. It's part of that particular culture, and those living in West Virginia and other Appalachian areas would faint and then recover to be very angry at their music being referred to as "Cowboy Music!".... Aaaah, now I know. I just googled the name of the group and they are actually Dutch who mostly deal with covers. I thought they were originally from US. If I had checked it earlier...... Ok, I admit it now, it is fake cowboy music! |
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Post by jeanne on Mar 13, 2018 13:03:23 GMT 1
Aaaah, now I know. I just googled the name of the group and they are actually Dutch who mostly deal with covers. I thought they were originally from US. If I had checked it earlier...... Ok, I admit it now, it is fake cowboy music! Thank you for your humble admission! |
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