NSH Oktoberfest

NSH held their Oktoberfest night at the Reno Ballroom downtown on a Saturday in October 2022. The room was set like a beer hall: long rows of tables with red checkered runners, blue and white drapes across the whole ceiling, blue and white balloons by my booth and a wood dance floor right in front of it.

Most of the guests still had their name badges on when the dancing started, and I opened it with the Chicken Dance. Then Wobble by V.I.C. and Dancing Queen by ABBA.

After that the floor was line dances and songs the whole room knew: Macarena by Los Del Rio, the Cupid Shuffle by Cupid, the Cha Cha Slide by DJ Casper, Electric Boogie by Marcia Griffiths and a Conga by Gloria Estefan. Venus by Bananarama and Funkytown by Lipps Inc. kept it going.

Later in the night it was Wannabe by Spice Girls, Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) by Backstreet Boys, Hey Ya! by OutKast, Shout by The Isley Brothers and Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond.