More Thoughts on the LB Bike Club; Music Notes

Bill Cook and I initiated the Lake Barcroft Bike Club's 2012 riding season with out 19.6 mile round trip first ride to the Buzz Bakery in Alexandria, Virginia, just described in my last post. 


Many folks contacted me before the ride about the short notice for this ride,  but also expressed their willingness to join another ride, so I will be planning one soon. Many others expressed interest in riding but also reiterated their request for a shorter ride to get them back in the swing of biking, so I'll be setting that up as well. 


It does look like weekends are a better time for most riders, so I'll be setting up the next rides on a Sunday morning. With the coming heat wave, however, I may hold off for few weeks. 


In the meantime, Carole and I will be attending the Cajun/Creole Music Camp at the Augusta Heritage Days being held at Davis and Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia, for a week in July, so it's likely that with the heat and our music camp getaway, there won't be any club rides before that.


If you are unfamiliar with Cajun music, here's a link telling you all about it, written by one of Cajun music's stars, Ann Savoy.  A sample of the music can be found in this video, here. 


Carole and I are big fans and go to the local Cajun and Zydeco dances held at Glen Echo's Spanish Ballroom and Bumper Car Pavillion in Cabin John, Maryland and at a new venue here in Virginia, the Artisphere in downtown Rosslyn, Virginia.  Zydeco music is a relatively new genre of world music, having come about as a style of its own in only the mid-1900s. It is a derivative of "La-La" music (the shared music of the Cajuns and the Creoles), as well as blues, jure' (syncopated a cappella religious songs), and in more recent years, zydeco has taken many cues from R&B and even hip-hop, proving that it's a constantly evolving genre. Here's a sample of Zydeco music and dancing here. For info on these musical events, have a look at this site. 


Please let me know what you'd like to do and when, and if you're interested in leading a ride. Leave a comment in the "Comments" box below.


Larry