See the <a href="https://cdss.org/podcasts/from-the-mic/">From the Mic website</a> for transcripts and more.<a href="https://cdss.org/podcasts/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/FTM_Tony_Parkes_Transcript.pdf"> </a><a href="https://cdss.org/podcasts/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/FTM_Gaye_Fifer_TRANSCRIPT.pdf">Or click here to download it directly.</a>And the <a href="https://www.cdss.org/">Country Dance and Song Society</a> for information about Contra and English country dance across the continent.Soundbites featured in this episode (in order of appearance):<ul><li>Gaye calling the dance "Gaye's Groove" with music by The Syncopaths at the 2018 Atlanta Dance Weekend</li><li>Gaye calling "Rick's Triplet #2" by Rick Mohr to the music of Turnip the Beet (Kelsey Wells & Jeremy Lekich) at the Trillium Twirl in Michigan in 2019</li><li>Gaye calling the grid square "Can of Worms" by Bob Isaacs with music by The Syncopaths at the 2018 Atlanta Dance Weekend</li><li>Gaye calling "United We Dance" by Bob Isaacs with music by the Asheville Cats in Cocoa Beach, Florida in 2015</li></ul>

Host Mary Wesley takes you behind the caller's mic to explore perspectives from the people who choose to stand in that curious place between the band and a roomful of dancers. Featuring conversations with callers of American social dance forms (contras, community dances, trad squares). Why do they do it? How did they learn? What is their role, on stage and off, in shaping our dance communities?