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Website Report Easter 2005
Hi there! If you really want a fun time come to the High Peak CWC on a Bank Holiday Weekend. Take this Easter weekend for instance – the fun started on Good Friday Evening
when the guest artist at Sterndale Moor Social Club was the inimitable Rosa.
She's always very lively. Mind you, things were getting a bit hot even before the singing started when one of our line dancers lost an article of underwear, no doubt because
the elastic was stretched. It was actually an underskirt. I don't know what some people thought!
Lisa had brought along her cousin Billie from Nashville to see what happens at English Country and Western Clubs. I don't think she could have picked a better one than ours
for entertainment.
Our DJ Kalamitty and Rosa get on extremely well so towards the end of the evening they were trading double meanings like nobody's business.
Rosa's singing is great for dancing too, so it's just as well that there were loads of dancers present and the floor was full. Crazy-Legs and Lynn seemed to be having a great
time at one point with a dance seemingly called the 'Passion Slap.' I think you have to be really special friends before you try this one!
The fast-draw was really complicated with there being three disciplines instead of one. The 3rd place went to Westie (Hurray!), the 2nd to Curly and the 1st to Frosty. Billie
then had her picture taken with all the cowboys. I expect Nashville will be impressed.
Rosa changed her costume three times, each one making her look stunning. We all enjoyed her singing, starting with her trademark 'Satin Sheets,' moving on through such songs
as 'Perfume And Roses' (written for her by Dave Sheriff) and ending with 'And I Will Always Love You,' dedicated to Billie.
I should mention at this point that there were activities and dancing during the day on both Saturday and Sunday at Sterndale but I didn't participate in these.
On Saturday evening the artists were 'Rough Diamond' a duo from Wales. They have obviously been on the singing circuit for some time and their act is very polished and
relaxed. He is very tall and spare and she is shorter and slightly more rounded. He played twelve-string guitar and she played keyboard.
They arrived with a gaggle of sheep, including the inflatable Gladys. They seemed to be talking about Wellingtons and Vaseline but I'm not sure that I caught their drift.
Rough Diamond also had a hobbyhorse with them that came into play during the singing of 'Union Mare And Confederate Grey.'
Once again there were lots of couples on the dance floor. It was great to see a fair few visitors, several of them in really suitable Western gear.
Rough Diamond sang lots of well known songs, the Bellamy Brothers 'Old Hippie', (that I didn't recognise), Rita McNeill's 'A Working Man,' (in English and Welsh) and ended
with 'You Are No Angel.'
Just before the end of the evening, at about the time when Kalamitty disappeared, 'Elvis' entered the building. He danced with the Preacher to 'We're All Shook Up' before
moving on to Kalamitty's missus, Westie. For the Trilogy Elvis mimed to Rough Diamond's singing.
And so everything ended on a high note as Elvis went on to DJ after the Mexican Trilogy.
Once again there had been three disciplines for the fast draw in the evening, with Westie again being 3rd, Frosty being 2nd and Sundown being 1st.
By Sunday evening you'd have thought that the dancers would have been tired, but no, up they got again. Crazy-legs had invented a partner dance called the 'High Peak Stroll' and
was soon demonstrating this for us with Lynn.
The artists were another duo 'Double Barrel.' These two gentlemen were apparently named for their slightly rotund shapes. One played guitar and sang while the other just
sang, although he did have a bash at the tambourine for Merle Haggard's 'Daddy Frank.' Although we hadn't met them before we really enjoyed their cheerful act and jolly jokes and would be pleased to see them again.
The act included songs like 'It's Five O'Clock Sunday', 'Margueritasville' and 'Bad Moon Arisin.' They asked who was the author of one of the songs they sang and presented Sundown
with a book for giving the correct answer. (I won't give too much away as they may want to ask the question again!)
On Sunday evening Sundown was as usual elaborately dressed, this time as a hillbilly with a clay pipe slotted in the side of his hat.
His wife, Belle Boyd, was on this occasion dressed as a 19th century lady undertaker. This was just as well as Sundown shot Curly in the fast draw and he had to be taken off
for burial. Belle had already measured him for a coffin with her knotted rope – a timely precaution.
Later in the evening a Union soldier, Fred, had to be tried and convicted for yawning TWICE during the evening. He was dragged out and shot. The cowboys' aim can't have been too
good as he reappeared to lead his wife into the 'Anniversary Waltz' as they had been celebrating their wedding anniversary.
Incidentally in the fast-draw Rusty came 3rd, Curly 2nd and Sundown 1st.
I think everybody will agree that we all had a brilliant time. Thank you very much to all the organisers, especially Buckshot our main organiser, Kalamitty our DJ and Chantilly And
Lynn who sort out the fast draw. Oh, and I should also mention that food is always available during the evening and that it's pretty good and very good value.
Looking forward to seeing y'all soon,
Mrs Rusty
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