JUNE 09
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Dear Dancers
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!
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I like a good birthday don’t you?
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I have always been a sucker for
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ever expanding waistline proves
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it. So, as Betty and Steve are
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attaching the last balloon to
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and Dawn and Kath are cranking the CD player up, you
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find me in a reflective mood as I am looking back over
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the last thirteen years in the life of the magazine and
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ponder on its future.
Managing Editor Betty once told me that she had to fight hard to get the title started and that, even she, had no
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idea it would still be around today. Every year seems to have brought some radical and important
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changes. From creating the Crystal Boot Awards, which today is regarded as an international
bench mark event by many dancers, to our website which gets an average of nearly one million
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pages hits per month, Linedancer Magazine is still a strong and healthy child.
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But I think that the new ideas and changes we champion are the most exciting part of Linedancer’s
life. So today, your subscription fee does not just get you a magazine, but a website, a multi media
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version of the magazine with interviews, music and videos, dedicated and exclusive merchandise.
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In terms of contents in the magazine, we have always strived at being not just a good read but an
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informative and exciting one to reflect what Line dance truly means.
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Somebody once said to me: “Don’t you get bored doing 13 or so features each month on the same
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topic?” and I remember thinking (and saying) “Bored? Linedancer is about music, extraordinary
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people, travel, events, big names, exclusives, competitions, amazing feats, funny moments and
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stories from all over the world. BORED? NEVER!”
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Now Linedancer is in its 14th year and because we know we have to improve each year that goes by,
so far, 2009 looks interesting to say the least. With a brand new Choreography competition launched,
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a new DVD for Beginners later on in the year and our range of specially commissioned CD’s that are
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turning out to be a dependable source of music, Linedancer will continue to amaze you.
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We will be stretching out even further with the launch of “Onlinedancer France” this August at
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the Cagnes sur Mer Festival. This will be yet another way for your magazine to make the world
smaller by establishing and forging new friendships.
Design Team
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Because ultimately dancing fulfills a social need as well as a physical one, Linedancer is there
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today to help start dialogues and create new links between artists, dancers and organisers, just
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as it always did.
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As ever, we turn to you for your continual goodwill and support and we thank you as well as our
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And so, all I have left to do right now is to raise my glass, wish us a happy birthday and wish you
a happy read this month and in the many more years to come.
Linedancer is published monthly in the United Kingdom
by Champion Media Group (Waypride Ltd),
Clare House, 166 Lord Street, Southport, PR9 0QA.
© 2009 Entire contents by Champion Media Group.
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