We’re breaking up Christmas! We’ll have three bands at the Meadowbrook Community Center beginning at 7 p.m. Saturday Jan. 7, 2012. Come on out and dance or just listen and tap your feet the Java Brothers, Sugar Run and Fort Vause will be there. You should be too!

This is a Shawsville Ruritan Club production, so all proceeds will go toward scholarships for EastMont High School graduates.

It’s granny rules: No drinking, no cussing, no spitting on the floor.

Y’all come!

It’s an old fashioned Fourth!

The parade begins at five — horses and fire trucks and floats and antique cars and all kinds of things, including the World Famous Shawsville Ruritan Marching Kazoo Band — moving down Oldtown Road to the old football field.  Down there, Fort Vause and friends will play bluegrass. A magician will entertain the kids (and  adults, too). There are always interesting things to see and good food to eat. There’s a raffle of items donated by local folks and merchants; a 50/50 raffle; a raffle to aid the LINC Letter (with more than 70 prizes); a raffle of baked goods and too much fun to talk about here.

The evening ends with a fireworks extravaganza, courtesy of Sisson & Ryan Quarry.  It’s something to see.

This is a celebration of our country and our community and the Shawsville Ruritans’ primary fundraiser, so you’ll be helping out the good folks of Eastern Montgomery County while you’re having a good time and honoring America.

Y’all come!

That’s right, no more dancing around here until the fall. So if you want to swing your partner in these parts, you’d better do it now. You can just come and pat your foot if you want to.

Fort Vause will be be playing. Tom Angleberger will be calling. We’ll all be having a big time.

Y’all come!

More banjo players, basses, fiddlers and mandolin players than you can shake a stick at.

It’s granny rules: No cussing or smoking or drinking or spitting on the floor.

The Meadowbrook Community Center is at 267 Alleghany Spring Road, on the corner of Allegheny Spring and U.S. 460 in the heart of Shawsville.

There’s no admission fee, but the Ruritans are asking for a $5 donation. Drinks and snacks will be available for a donation, too. The Shawsville Ruritans, famous for their Fourth of July parade and celebration, are involved in all sorts of community projects, but one of their main goals is to provide scholarships for Eastern Montgomery High School graduates bound for college.

Come on out and bring some friends! (No square dancing experience required.)

If you have questions, or want more information, email ephraimvause@aol.com or visit

We will have no diggeridos at this event.

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We will, alas, have no dancing tractors.

The Shawsville Ruritan Club Saturday Night Hoedown Hootenanny begins at 7 p.m. Feb. 26 at the Meadowbrook Community Center, 267 Allegheny Spring Road. That’s at the corner of Allegheny Spring and U.S. 460 in the heart of beautiful downtown Shawsville.

It’s granny rules: no drinking, no smoking, no cussing, no spitting on the floor. Just singing and dancing and hooting and hollering. (No experience required.)

There’s no admission fee, but the Ruritans ask for a $5 donation. Drinks and snacks will be available for a donation, too. Every donation will help us provide scholarships for Eastern Montgomery High School graduates.

Y’all come and bring some friends!

More banjo players, basses, fiddlers and mandolin players than you can shake a stick at.

If you have questions, or want more information, email ephraimvause@aol.com.

We will have no diggeridos at this event.

We had a fairly small, but very enthusiastic, crowd at December’s square dance. In January, we’ll be back to our regular schedule, dancing on the fourth Saturday of the month. That’s Jan. 22. Come on out and dance.

It starts at 7 p.m., on at the Meadowbrook Community Center (behind the library) in beautiful downtown Shawsville.  Fort Vause will saw and strum and pick and plunk their way through the evening. There will be square dancing, flat footing and waltzing and maybe a few songs you can listen to while you catch your breath between dances.

Tom Angleberger, renowned juggler, newspaper columnist, restaurant reviewer and children’s author, will be calling the dances.

It’s granny rules: no drinking, no smoking, no cussing, no spitting on the floor. Just singing and dancing and hooting and hollering.

The Meadowbrook Community Center is at 267 Alleghany Spring Road, on the corner of Allegheny Spring and U.S. 460 in the heart of Shawsville.

There’s no admission fee, but the Ruritans are asking for a $5 donation. Drinks and snacks will be available for a donation, too. The Shawsville Ruritans, famous for their Fourth of July parade and celebration, are involved in all sorts of community projects, but one of their main goals is to provide scholarships for Eastern Montgomery High School graduates bound for college.

Come on out and bring some friends! (No square dancing experience required.)

If you have questions, or want more information, email ephraimvause@aol.com or visit http://shawsvilleruritan.wordpress.com or www.blueridgemusic.org/SearchResultDetail.asp?EditRecord=1077&Region=6.

Y’all come!

To help make way for that jolly old fat man (and I’m not talking about anyone in the band) we’ll be dancing a week early this month. Y’all come!

Saturday, Dec. 18.

(Hear and see Benton Flippen play Breakin’ Up Christmas.)

It starts at 7 p.m., on at the Meadowbrook Community Center (behind the library) in beautiful downtown Shawsville.  Fort Vause and friends will saw and strum and pick and plunk their way through the evening. There will be square dancing, flat footing and waltzing and maybe a few songs you can listen to while you catch your breath between dances.

Tom Angleberger, renowned juggler and children’s author, will be calling the dances.

It’s granny rules: no drinking, no smoking, no cussing, no spitting on the floor. Just singing and dancing and hooting and hollering.

The Meadowbrook Community Center is at 267 Alleghany Spring Road, on the corner of Allegheny Spring and U.S. 460 in the heart of Shawsville.

There’s no admission fee, but the Ruritans are asking for a $5 donation. Drinks and snacks will be available for a donation, too. The Shawsville Ruritans, famous for their Fourth of July parade and celebration, are involved in all sorts of community projects, but one of their main goals is to provide scholarships for Eastern Montgomery High School graduates bound for college.

Come on out and bring some friends!

(No square dancing experience required.)

If you have questions, or want more information, email ephraimvause@aol.com or visit the Blue Ridge Music Trail.

This month we’ll be mostly back to the standard crew (though you can never be too sure who’s going to show up) but we’re dancing on a different day. Since the fourth Saturday of December falls on Christmas, we’re going to have this month’s Shawsville Ruritan Square Dance shindig hootenanny on the third Saturday. That’s Dec. 18.  So come on out and dance the snow off your shoes.

Dance with us and you’ll learn to dance like this!

It starts at 7 p.m., on at the Meadowbrook Community Center (behind the library) in beautiful downtown Shawsville.  Fort Vause and friends will saw and strum and pick and plunk their way through the evening. There will be square dancing, flat footing and waltzing and maybe a few songs you can listen to while you catch your breath between dances.

Tom Angleberger, renowned juggler, newspaper columnist, restaurant reviewer and children’s author, will be calling the dances.

It’s granny rules: no drinking, no smoking, no cussing, no spitting on the floor. Just singing and dancing and hooting and hollering.

The Meadowbrook Community Center is at 267 Alleghany Spring Road, on the corner of Allegheny Spring and U.S. 460 in the heart of Shawsville.

There’s no admission fee, but the Ruritans are asking for a $5 donation. Drinks and snacks will be available for a donation, too. The Shawsville Ruritans, famous for their Fourth of July parade and celebration, are involved in all sorts of community projects, but one of their main goals is to provide scholarships for Eastern Montgomery High School graduates bound for college.

Come on out and bring some friends! (No square dancing experience required.)

If you have questions, or want more information, email ephraimvause@aol.com or visit http://shawsvilleruritan.wordpress.com or www.blueridgemusic.org/SearchResultDetail.asp?EditRecord=1077&Region=6.

Y’all come!

Bring the whole family down to the Shawsville Ruritan Square Dance — 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 27.

Celebrate the beginning of the holiday season with all your friends and family and dancers.

It’s granny rules: no drinking, no smoking, no cussing, no spitting on the floor. Just singing and dancing and hooting and hollering.

As always, we’ll be at the Meadowbrook Community Center in downtown Shawsville.

The Meadowbrook Community Center is at 267 Alleghany Spring Road, on the corner of Allegheny Spring and U.S. 460 in the heart of Shawsville.

There’s no admission fee, but the Ruritans are asking for a $5 donation. Drinks and snacks will be available for a donation, too. The Shawsville Ruritans, famous for their Fourth of July parade and celebration, are involved in all sorts of community projects, but one of their main goals is to provide scholarships for Eastern Montgomery High School graduates bound for college.

Y’all come!