Swing dancing at Jamboree

Thursday was our First Year Seminar Jamboree here at UMM, where students from different sections show off things they’ve been doing during the semester. My sections focus on American Roots Music, and one of my sections taught other students how to swing dance, after which four of them played live music for people to dance to

I took several pictures, but it was pretty dim and a lot of them are very blurry. I liked this one, though, with the band in the foreground and the people dancing and obviously having fun in the distance.

Last night my sections did their Jamboree radio show on KUMM, which went quite well. They chose some excellent music that covered a lot of interesting music, although they didn’t talk much about it, which was too bad as I don’t think they demonstrated (to themselves or the listeners) how much they had actually learned during the semester.

The photo below is from the booth of some other sections that were looking at diversity and food. I loved their appetizing meat substitute :-).



Meat sliced very thin, originally uploaded by Unhindered by Talent.
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I’m not sure I believe it either

Somewhere in the last few hours I crossed 40,000 views on my Flickr photostream in about 1.5 years on Flickr. Pretty amazing, especially given that the total (rough) equivalent of views in the previous 15 years would have been no more than a few hundred (and that’s probably being generous).

Wow. Thanks to everyone who’s been encouraging, and everyone who’s shared their great work for us to all benefit from. I’ve “met” a lot of very cool people through Flickr, and it’s definitely appreciated.

The illustration shot is from the recent production of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat (featuring Sub-Evil Boy as a minor minion). It was an excellent (and very fun) production. The quality of the school drama here in Morris is very high, but it is still school drama and one’s never sure what you’re to get. WeatherGirl and I laughed ’til we cried in more than a few places, and I was actually looking forward to seeing it a second time. Well done all!

If you want to see lots more from this (unedited and uncleaned), visit my events stream.

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