Tim Schaal The Saddlebrooke Ranch Social Dance Club has announced its slate of upcoming dances through the end of the year. A total of 11 events are scheduled, covering the genres of country/western, ballroom, line dancing, and rock ‘n’ roll. Among the highlights are the second-anniversary celebration of country/western dances on Sept. 8 with the…
Dancing, no matter the style—ballroom, western, Latin, hip hop, line dancing—and no matter your level of training (or no training at all), is just fun and joyful. Dancing can be spiritual, emotional, loving, and crazy—a time to enjoy, cut loose, or find a sense of wellbeing. Whatever dance does for you, or what dance means to…
Daniel Smejkal The SaddleBrooke Ranch Social Dance Club (SBRSDC) will sponsor a night of live music featuring Chuck Moses on Saturday, Oct. 22, in the Sol Ballroom. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. with music beginning at 6 p.m. Chuck will be playing a wide variety of popular standards from the ’50s to present. All…
Carol Osgood The SaddleBrooke Ranch Social Dance Club (SBRSDC) was started in January 2019 by John Hess and Mark Holden as copresidents and club officers. John Green joined the club in June 2019 as secretary/treasurer and completed the trio of officers. We are all so thankful for their hard work, insight, and fulfillment for many…
Janelle Authur Ranch residents donned their jeans, boots, and cowboy hats on June 10 for a sizzling summer evening dancing to the live music of Patrick Rayl and the .357 Band. The Sol Ballroom reverberated with boot scootin’ as 60-plus dancers filled the dance floor. Dancers wearing cowboy hats were eligible for the evening’s raffle, so…
Janelle Authur Patrick Rayl and the .357 Band, a popular Southern Arizona Country band, filled the Sol Ballroom with western music at the SaddleBrooke Ranch Social Dance Club’s monthly country-western dance on Friday, Dec. 3. Seventy Ranchers welcomed the holidays with an evening of western dancing and holiday cheer. As the number of western dancers…
Janelle Arthur With the number of Western dancers at the Ranch growing, the board of the SaddleBrooke Ranch Social Dance Club (SBRSDC) decided to dip a boot into separate, monthly dances devoted to Western music and dancing. Country-western lessons were expanded with a new instructor, dance teacher Richard Russell, and Ranch resident Bob Authur was…
Janelle Authur Forty-seven Ranchers and guests dusted off their cowboy hats, boots, and jeans for the Ranch’s first No-Frills Boom Box Western Dance on Friday, Sept. 3, in the Sol Ballroom. Sponsored by the SaddleBrooke Ranch Social Dance Club (SBRSDC), the western dance featured a wide variety of more than 30 country songs played on…