Is The Economy Hurting Stepping?
By Markie Bee Buy Tickets Best Of Both Worlds Dance Extravaganza www.united2dance.com/registration.htm Buy Tickets + Chicago Steppers Convention Info – www.cscsteps.com October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month For Steppers Too – www.stepandthinkpink.org New Email Address for Pluggers: pluggers@steppersusa.com The famous words “It’s the economy stupid” has been ringing in my ears ever since I heard word of this. Several months ago when the gas prices were knocking on five dollar a gallon’s door in Chicago (Remember in March when I talked about this, and the follow-up in June), I warned about the effects of a poor economy on stepping. Back in the day, when stepping was pretty much a Chicago only thing, it was pretty much a fairly recession proof business proposition in the windy city to do a steppers set… There were blue light basement parties and (when all the bus routes ran 24/7/365) you could always grab a cheap ride to a set… Hell, if you had a car, you had a bar! Now, the bus co
