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It must be January . . .

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The crash of Jan 2017 forced us to rebuild the website. This January, we intentionally gave it a facelift. Sort of. We upgraded the theme, which we have been meaning to do, and it had unexpected results, that we (the royal we – Ann really) had to fix immediately. It’s all fixed, so long as you don’t peer into the corners. We’ll fix the corners on Saturday. The upgrade adds more functionality for you and more ways to attract attention for our sponsors, who rely upon to keep this calendar going.

What’s new: 

Enlarge the view on your smart phone – even the calendar page.

New bright colors – the upgrade gave us more choices.

Blog shows several posts, in summary with click through to read more.

What’s yet to come: 

More ways to view the Calendar

A dance instruction page

A festival page

 

 

 

 

 

Mostly fires are dancing – call first

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We urge everyone to stay safe and off the roads anywhere near an evacuation zone. Sebastopol and Petaluma may have gigs still happening. Call first. We are not updating the site during firestorm. It would be impossible to keep up.

Stay safe. Stay informed. Don’t spread unverified, alarming information. Keep your loved ones close and your ringer on. If you haven’t text 888777 with your zip yet, do so. You’ll get evacuation alerts that way.

If you have lost your house, know that FEMA has set up headquarters in the Press Democrat building. KSRO.com has a very accurate list of evacuation resources.

Some restaurants that are still open are feeding evacuees for free.

If you’re not affected personally, find a shelter at which you can volunteer or donate money or goods, check on loved ones, offer your home — even if it’s just for a shower and a cell phone charge.

We will dance again!

 

A story of less is more

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Live and learn. We tried the ticking of boxes thing, to tell you in every single entry, if an event is: all ages, has a dance floor, how many people the dance area accommodates, if it’s outside, yada, yada, yada. We were doing our darnedest to have the most information for you. If you could see all the scrolling and clicking we were doing to make that happen. . .

So, now we’re working smarter, so we don’t burn out. But it’s cool for you. Here’s why:

Go to the calendar page and pick an event. Most any event. Now click on the venue. Bam! Everything you ever wanted to know about dancing to music at that juke joint, farmers market or restaurant. And then you know, and you don’t have to click through next time. And we only have to tick the “Click on venue for description” box and the genres, and we can load stuff up at lightening speed. And still have time to go dance.

Since we only have to enter this information once, we can be more complete. Sometimes a whole paragraph.

You won’t see the details you don’t need again and again, and we have less work.

Know what else is cool when you click on venue, that you may not have known or forgotten? All of its upcoming gigs will display below the description. How cool is that?

So, before June, we’ll have ALL the outdoor farmers markets, street fairs and summer series listed – in addition to most of the venues. We’re also getting some winery series in there. And festivals. And it’s oh, so much easier.

We would still love to have a Petaluma scout and a winery liaison to get us information about even more places folks can shake their booty. And, as always, tell all your music-loving friends about us.

The season has begun! Enjoy!