Thank you!

Hello everyone,

Lindy Bout was an incredible weekend of dancing, competitions and cupcakes!

The results are posted on-line on lindyhopper.ca and on facebook. We’ll be updating the Lindy Bout site in the near future, in the meantime join the facebook group for updates on Lindy Bout Round III, April 17-19, 2009 in Vancouver, BC.

Competition footage is posted on youtube and Justin’s incredible photographs are online at justinlee.ca/lindybout

We’ve got an idea about how things went this year and some ideas that will make next year even better but we’d also love to hear from you. Please drop me a line at this address, or talk with me next time you see me if you have any feedback or suggestions. In particular I’d like to know what you thought about the DJ Battle on Friday night, the daytime classes, the amount of social dancing, the schedule and registration for both the weekend and the matches.

I could not put on such an event by myself and I had a ton of help from friends and dancers from across Canada. A special big huge thank you to the following people who helped make this year a great success:

- all the local and visiting dancers from across the world, Seattle, Eugene, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and elsewhere
- Susan, Pawel, Kat, Edina, Devon, Dan, Stephanie, Josh & Tim, the door & make it happen volunteers
- Catie the interior decorator who transformed the Legion into something lovely
- Eric the car volunteer
- Jordan lighting guy extraordinaire
- Dave Hall the super awesome unsuspecting car volunteer
- Stuart Manahan the awesome cupcake acquirer
- Daniel & Professor Smack the video presentation wonders
- Justin Lee the wonderful photographer
- the fabulous music makers that make up Georgia's Hot little Number & the Wetcoast Wallabies
- Afonso, Justin, Dave, Kyle, Alan and Birkley, Western Canadian DJ competitors
- Alan Cheung competition & dancing DJ
- Birkley Wisniewski (aka Smith) the webmaster
- Dave Henderson, sound master
- Dan Amores head judge and great teacher
- Mandi Gould fabulous teacher and judge
- Chris Chapman American fabulous teacher and judge
- Mark Kihara the best emcee ever

An even bigger thank you to Lisa Marks, Hayley Newell, Eileen Jones and Lucy Falkner for taking care of design, matches, volunteers and music (respectively) as well as support, feedback and sanity checks.

Sincerely,
Stephanie McKernan