Last night we received an email from the organ­isers of the Dirty Dan­cing Fest­ival. Yep! There is a Dirty Dan­cing Festival.

Why did they con­tact Coulson Macleod?  Well, they want us to donate our ‘Nobody Puts Baby In A Corner’ print for their silent auc­tion, which is being held after the ‘Time of Your Life’ Gala. How won­der­fully cheesy is that?

And the best bit about the Fest­ival? It’s being held at the lake where they filmed this…

The sched­ule of events made me smile. You can take part in a water­melon car­ry­ing con­test, a cast look-a-like con­test, and there’s even a lake lift com­pet­i­tion (I’d be inclined to give this a go!)

Little fact for you: the film was set in the sum­mer, yet the lake lift was filmed in Octo­ber (there’s no close-up shots of their faces as appar­ently their lips were blue!) Since the leaves were already turn­ing, they had to paint the leaves in the back­ground and if you look closely you can see where they missed a few in one spot.

Whilst at the Fest­ival you can have salsa, shag, and mambo les­sons and then watch the A-Lure dan­cers per­form the moves correctly.

So for any­one inter­ested, the Fest­ival is being held 17^th — 18^th Septem­ber at Lake Lure in North Car­o­lina. And if the pro­spect of spend­ing your week­end sur­roun­ded by fel­low enthu­si­asts recre­at­ing Baby and Johnny moments is not a big enough pull, the loc­a­tion itself is gor­geous. In fact National Geo­graphic declared Lake Lure as one of the ten most beau­ti­ful man-made lakes in the world.

We haven’t decided yet to donate our print. What do you think?

The film that inspired Coulson Macleod’s lim­ited edi­tion typo­graphic art print ‘Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner’

Coulson Macleod lim­ited edi­tion typo­graphic art print from the ‘Love’ collection

Coulson Macleod loves Patrick Swayze..

One of the films fea­tured in Coulson Macleod’s ‘Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner’ lim­ited edi­tion typo­graphic art print

Related art­icles:

• Coulson Macleod Does Dirty Dancing
• Shall We Dirty Dance?

Coulson and I are feel­ing very loved up at the moment. We’ve had so many amaz­ing com­ments about our ‘Love’ art col­lec­tion that we just had to add a few more. Neither of us can res­ist a romantic film. Even just hear­ing the soundtrack to Titanic or Ghost makes the hair on my arms stand up and a lump appear in my throat.

Say­ing that, I have been known to get a little welled up at this Heinz ketchup advert!

Coulson Macleod lim­ited edi­tion typo­graphic art print

Coulson Macleod lim­ited edi­tion typo­graphic art print

Coulson Macleod lim­ited edi­tion typo­graphic art print

Related art­icles: Shall We Dirty Dance?