Thanks for Letting the Spirit of The Gathering Catch You: Freddie Ciampi, Social Graces Ballroom and Friends

    Thanks Freddie Ciampi and the Social Graces Ballroom team for hosting local Native American Indian dancer Lenny Harmon to perform one of the oldest forms of dancing during the Grand Opening Social Graces Ballroom ribbon cutting Saturday (June 27).
    These traditional Native American dances not only honor both the legacy of “dance” and Clarke County’s "agricultural heritage," they offer a sampling of The Harvest Gathering.
    Lenny is one of the imple-MENTORS (volunteers) for The Gathering, an educational celebration of agri-"Culture" planned for the Clarke County Fairgrounds Oct. 30 – Nov. 1,
    Thanks to supporters like Social Graces Ballroom Studio for helping bring dance culture back into our community and nation as a way of life.
    The new Social Graces Ballroom Studio is located at 639 E. Main St. Berryville, home to seven instructors and more than 150 dance students.
   People interested in signing up for classes can visit www.BerryvilleBallRoom.com or 540-409-7136. For more about The Gathering please visit www.HarvestGathering.org.

   Special Thanks:

• Freddi Ciampi - Thanks for bringing dance into our community and contributing of yourself!!
  
• Danielle Beaulieu - You made it happen!
• Sue Peoples - Elder for The Gathering for  remarks and videotaping the dance (above)
  
• Alice Irvin - The Gathering imple-IMENTOR for creating this possibility
• Lenny Harmon - imple-MENTOR and volunteer extraordinaire (more about Lenny)
• Jennifer Welliver - The Observer you rock!!

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