It seems such a long time ago that we held our second busking session in the Howard Centre in Welwyn Garden City. Thanks to all of you who participated in this session on the 16th January.

The venue has proved yet again to be an excellent location for busking. For those of you that are not familiar with the venue, it has a superb marble tiled floor and the dance area we used is located right in the middle of the Howard Centre its self. With a large balcony above, and set between the up and down escalators, not only does it capture the shoppers, but as it also happens to be the entrance to the train station, you get a lot of the passing clientele as well.

Buskers "strut their stuff" in the Howard Centre.

About 24 CEROCERS turned up and danced away for about 4 hours. Some were obviously very nervous to be dancing in public, but, as at most CEROC events, once somebody took the plunge the rest were soon to be seen following in their dance steps, and any remaining nerves were very quickly evaporated.

Others turned up just to hand out flyers or to just generally add their support to the fun of the day. Yet another added bonus, which we did not know about at the time, was our Norman, who not only came along to dance but also did a video of all of the days proceedings. These sold like hot cakes the following Tuesday at the Forum. And as a direct result of the busking session, the Letchworth venue had nine new beginners on the Monday night, and at the Hatfield Forum we had about nineteen new beginners. And now 2 months on it has to be said that those new people who came along very nervous on that first night are well on the way to being accomplished dancers themselves. Who knows we may even see you turning up to any future busking that we hold in the area.

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