Va. Beer Museum’s Saturday night counterpoint: outdoor dancing isn’t just for graduating seniors

It wasn’t only the two-high school prom crowd enjoying the closings of East Main and Chester Streets for a little music and outside dancing the evening of Saturday, May 22^nd. The Virginia Beer Museum got in the spirit for the older crowd, perhaps including some prom parents, in the backyard Biergarten to the musical accompaniment of Grindstone.

Grindstone put their collective “nose to it” catering to that older generation’s musical memories of raging adolescence several decades south of what was going on a short stretch down Chester Street.

But despite the generation gap, friskier members of both crowds – perhaps a slightly higher percentage of the graduating seniors – shared a desire to “get on the good foot” as illustrated in these Beer Museum photos providing a counterpoint to our prom night coverage:

If Grindstone’s NOT too old to Rock & Roll, then their crowd is NOT too old to dance, right older kids?!? Royal Examiner Photos by Roger Bianchini

And the dancing spanned generations into a family affair, as some dancers still have high school graduations to look forward to some years away. Dancing, yea that looks like a good idea.

Dewey Vaughan takes the stage to help Grindstone cover The Rolling Stones, channeling his best ‘Mick’ persona …

… In fact, Vaughan took to the Karaoke stage at the Va. Beer Museum the previous evening, along with Bev Williams, below brining DJ Yanni into the mix …

… to practice revving the crowd up into a dancing mood, which evolved – or was it devolved – below, into a Conga line.