Credit: nkkorssjoen via Instagram

Credit: nkkorssjoen via Instagram
Mark your calendar: the National Square Dance Convention has announced that it will be circling right into Cincinnati in 2017.

We all did it in elementary school gym class, but if your square dancing is a bit rusty you have some time to brush up on your terminology and invest in some cowboy boots. 

The convention was last held in Cincinnati in 1992. According to News Channel 5 and the Cincinnati USA Convention & Visitors Bureau, the convention is expected to attract around 4,000 participants. 

The bureau estimates that square dancers will account for 5,500 hotel rooms during the four-day convention, with an economic impact of some $1.6 million. 

We’ll do-si-do to that.

This article appears in Oct 23-29, 2013.

Cecily Rus joined Scene as a blogging intern in September 2013. She is a recent graduate of Colgate University, where she majored in English/Creative Writing. She has previously interned at Scene Magazine in Boston. Her interests include traveling, cheeseburgers and Game of Thrones. Cecily is a Lakewood native and an aspiring editor.

One reply on “National Square Dancing Convention to be Held in Cincinnati in 2017”

  1. Well hee haw and yip de scoo, that there’s be the best root-tootin hodown that there diggity…..sorry, that’s giving me a headache. This is 1.6 million I will gladly divert to Cincy if it keeps 5,500 annoying square dancers out of Cleveland. The only thing worse than their clothes and the music they like is the rampant vandalism that square dancers are famous for.

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