It’s New Years Eve 1969 and Johnny Cool (Jamie Collins) and Claudine (Anne Gillis) are on the stage! There’s electricity in the air after a decade of free love and political upheavals that has reached even into rural Cape Breton. So much has changed since televisions started dominating even in ceilidh houses. The Pig’n’Whistle show, which has inspired country music and Irish music at the dances with the bar right in the hall rather than out in the parking lot, has put square dances out of fashion. That doesn’t sit well with the MacAulay sisters (Jacqueline Boyd, Elizabeth Matheson and= Darlene Ellis), but they can’t resist coming out to this new type of dance, even with the bar, to spend the end of the decade with their neighbours. Alec Pat (Lawrence Cameron) and Dan Peter (Robert Pringle) are going to be there too, and well, Dan Peter has been taking in a lot of that “hippie” talk, and that doesn’t always sit well with Alec Pat, but then again, what does? The young crew (Siobhan Beaton, Kristen Boyd, Rebecca Dunphy, Adam MacNeil and Ryan Ehler) are looking at the ‘70’s as a time of new beginnings, but what will that mean for them? From Ring of Fire to Time Gentlemen Please, it’s going to be a jam-packed evening of entertainment, so get your tickets and come to Strathspey Performing Arts Centre in Mabou on November 22 nd or 23 rd at 7:30 to be part of it all. Reserved seating tickets are available on Eventbrite. Just search “Eventbrite Squares Dancing in ’69” plus the night you want, and you can find it easily. Strathspey Performing Arts Centre is trying out a different way of selling tickets which will be hopefully a lot smoother to use. Please get in touch with SP if you have any problems. See you at the theatre!