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February 2013
LOCAL INFORMATION & ADVERTISING
Scoot on down to Mercer Street Dance Hall
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By Laurel Robertson
en years ago Dripping Springs residents couldn’t buy a beer in the local grocery store. Today they can quaff hand-crafted brews in the local beer pub, enjoy regional and international wines in a wine bar two doors down—and now dance to live music two nights a week just down the street at the new Mercer Street Dance Hall. Welcome to Dripping Springs’ own version of 6th Street! Nick and Gay Dotin are the owners and entrepreneurs behind Dripping Springs’s newest entertainment venue. As a musician, Nick spent 35 years on stage in other dance halls and honkytonks playing in rock ‘n roll and country bands. Now the fifty-year-old is ready to keep it closer to home by running his own dance hall.
Gay, who worked in hospitality at the Hyatt Regency Austin and now is general manager at Whim Hospitality in Dripping Springs, rounds out the perfect dance hall management husband/wife team. “There are lots of people out here who don’t want to have to drive out to Blanco to enjoy an evening of dancing,” Nick observes. “There was just no place to dance regularly in Dripping Springs”. That problem became acute for Nick and Gay a couple of years back when their (then) 14-year-old daughter, Shelby, learned to two-step and wanted to regularly go out to Blanco to dance at Twin Sisters Hall, or to Buda to dance at the Painted Horse Saloon. “We were driving 40-to 80-mile round trips to take her to the nearest dance hall,” Nick bemoans. See MERCER STREET DANCE HALL, Page 2
LEFT TO RIGHT Nick, Shelby and Gay Dotin welcome you to Dripping Springs’ newest entertainment venue, Mercer Street Dance Hall. Photo courtesy Mercer Street Dance Hall.
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