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THE ORIGINAL CHARLESTON BEACH MUSICANDSHAGFESTIVAL AUGUST 28-29 , 2010 IN CHARLESTON

SCROLL DOWN TO SEE WHAT BOB AND JUDY MCNAIR FROM GREENSBORO HAD TO SAY ABOUT THE 2009 CHARLESTON BEACH MUSIC AND SHAG FESTIVAL
YOU MAY WANT TO MAKE PLANS TO COME AUGUST 27-29, 2010 

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Charleston Beach Music and Shag Festival is August 27-29, 2010 FOR TICKETS CLICK HERE OR TO MAKE A DONATION TO THE BEACH MUSIC AND SHAG PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF SC 

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Hi Harriet...
First, let me introduce myself.  My name is Bob McNair from Winston-Salem.  My wife, Judy, and I met you briefly a few times this past weekend at the Charleston Beach Music and Shag Festival.  Butch Halpin is one of my buddies and turned me on to your festival.  I've attached a photo below so that perhaps you'll remember us.
Judy and I wanted to let you know how very much we enjoyed our visit to Charleston, J.B. Pivots, and the Charleston Beach Music and Shag Festival.  It was an absolutely superb weekend!!!  We truly appreciate the outstanding effort that you and your volunteers and sponsors did to put on such a successful event.  We can only imagine the tremendous work, time and expense that is involved in producing such a huge event.  You are to be admired for your many years of support of beach music and the shag.
We drove in Friday afternoon and stayed until Monday morning at the sponsor hotel, the Best Western.  I wanted to let you know that the employees and the accommodations there were excellent.  They were all most cordial and made our stay quite pleasant.  We even ate dinner two evenings at Amalfi's Italian Restaurant adjacent to the hotel.  The location was so convenient and the food was excellent.  We also enjoyed listening to 94.9 the Surf's Top 40 Beach Music Countdown on Saturday morning by the pool.
There are so many wonderful things that I'd like to compliment you on about the festival, but I'll just mention a few.  The bands that you had booked were all excellent.  Several of the bands I'd never seen and I loved them all, but Sunday's line up was SMOKIN' HOT!!!  Wow!!!  The Swingin' Medallions and the Tams flat torn it up!!!  It was truly exceptional the way you honored the Tams and their many years of contributions to beach music.
I really liked that you used a "pre-setup" stage so that the bands could rotate in and out with a minimum of disruption.  The way the hall was laid out was terrific and a stroke of genius.  I loved the dance floor in the back with the bar and only a few sponsor tables.  Lots of room to dance and mill around in the hall.
Judy and I want you to give our thanks to Jerry and Barbara for the fun shag lessons on Saturday and Sunday.  We got there late both days and they let us jump right in.  My only suggestion would be that PA system be off during the lessons.  It was difficult for Jerry to communicate the instructions with the music blaring in the background.  
Speaking of shaggin'... Judy and I seriously "wore out" some shoe leather down there. <grins> We danced more than we have in several years combined and really had fun trying to remember some of our old mirror steps.  We also met some really nice folks down there and made some new friends.
We will both be proudly wear our 2009 Charleston Beach Music and Shag Festival t-shirts that we purchased.  Please let me know as soon as the video is available.  I'd like to purchase one.  Also, are the still photos going to be posted online?  I think the photographers got several of us during the weekend and I'd love to see them.
Harriet, many thanks again for providing us with such a fun, entertaining weekend.  We certainly look forward to the next one.  Please put me on your e-mailing list so that I will see any up coming events.
From one huge beach music fan to another...
Bob McNair

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