Q Square for Valentine's Day

This coming week will be the Chinese New Year holiday, but the Ramblers (or most of us) will not be taking it easy the entire time. On Valentine’s Day, that’s February 14 of course, we’ll be performing at Q Square. We’ll offer two sets, starting the first one at 5:30 P.M. and finishing the second by 7:30. 

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If you haven’t been to the new bus station just north of the Taipei Train Station, here is your opportunity. Here’s a link to Google Maps. The street view shows the building as it looks today, while the map view still shows a construction site. We’ll be raising a ruckus on the first floor, in the main entrance foyer near the intersection of Chengde Road and Civil Boulevard (Shimin Dadao). We won’t be hard to spot. We’ll be the dapper gentlemen with red roses pinned to our jackets (as per request of the management).

Our last show was at Millagarden in the Dadaocheng area near Dihua Street, and we had a great afternoon in the courtyard. There were lots of people enjoying the warm weather as they shopped for treats for Chinese New Year, and many of our Taipei Swing friends came out to kick up their heels. Steve Kim, photographer par excellence, was dancing away, but he also had time to get some great shots. Here’s one that I’d like to share. I hope Steve doesn’t mind.

In case you want to know the context for Dave lying on ground, understand that he’s played himself to exhaustion. The application of our self-titled CD is the medicine that heals his weary bones. What doesn’t show is that Dave has collapsed right on his straw hat.

There are also a couple of short videos on YouTube. I'm not sure who recorded or posted them to YouTube, but much thanks for sharing.

If we don't see you before Chinese New Year, have an excellent holiday, and may your Year of the Snake be prosperous and auspicious.