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Ted Sannella - Festival Quadrille (clip)
This clip is part of a series of eight square dances called by Ted Sannella at the Chesapeake Spring Dance Weekend, sponsored by the Folklore Society of Greater Washington. (Ted called another four or five squares during the weekend, plus contras and…
Quadrille - 3 changes
Tony Parkes calls the figures at the Christmas Cotillion, Scout House, Concord, MA, December 21, 1985. Music provided by Yankee Ingenuity.
Tony Parkes - Do-si-do and Face the Sides
Recorded at the Greenfield, MA, Grange Hall on June 27, 2010. The event was sponsored by Country Dance and Song Society to celebrate the publication of "On the Beat with Ralph Sweet."
Tony Parkes, caller. The dance was composed by Ted Sannella…
Tony Parkes, caller. The dance was composed by Ted Sannella…
Ralph Sweet - Singing Square - Shindig in the Barn
Recorded at the Greenfield, MA, Grange Hall on June 27, 2010. The event was sponsored by Country Dance and Song Society to celebrate the publication of "On the Beat with Ralph Sweet."
Ralph Sweet, caller; Ralph created the singing square, basing…
Ralph Sweet, caller; Ralph created the singing square, basing…
Tony Parkes - Singing Square - Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Recorded at the Greenfield, MA, Grange Hall on June 27, 2010. The event was sponsored by Country Dance and Song Society to celebrate the publication of "On the Beat with Ralph Sweet."
Tony Parkes, caller. Don Armstrong is credited with setting…
Tony Parkes, caller. Don Armstrong is credited with setting…
Tony Parkes - Singing Square - Marianne
Recorded at the Greenfield, MA, Grange Hall on June 27, 2010. The event was sponsored by Country Dance and Song Society to celebrate the publication of "On the Beat with Ralph Sweet."In his introduction, caller Tony Parkes mentioned that this dance,…
Patter Calling - origins
Patter calling is a style of square dance calling in which the caller speaks the words or chants them on a musical pitch, hopefully in harmony with the tune. The classic form of patter is rhyming couplets. Typically the caller supplements the dance…
Tony Parkes - Lazy H
Tony Parkes is calling Ed Gilmore's classic dance, the Lazy H. As the dance progresses, Tony adds variations so that instead of couples doing a right and left through around a standing line of four, he directs the ladies to chain over and back…
Tony Parkes - Two Little Right Hand Stars
This dance appeared in Ralph Page's Northern Junket in Volume 1, #2, p. 17. This clip includes Tony's walkthrough of the dance.The dance is attributed to Ralph Page. Tony is using Rod Linnell's version of the call, which Rod adapted to fit the tune…
Tony Parkes - Forward Five
The dance is based on one used by Ralph Page. Tony's shortened version goes as follows:
A1 All go forward and back
Go forward again, gent #1 bring two ladies home
A2 At the heads, go right and left five
Do a right and left back and look…
A1 All go forward and back
Go forward again, gent #1 bring two ladies home
A2 At the heads, go right and left five
Do a right and left back and look…
Tony Parkes - Dick Leger figure
Tony Parkes calls a quadrille-style figure that he learned from the calling of Dick Leger. Leger did it as a singing call to the tune of "Wolverton Mountain," a country song made famous by Claude King in 1962.
The musicians are Yankee Ingenuity…
The musicians are Yankee Ingenuity…
Tony Parkes - Gents and Corners
Danced during a Retrospective session at the Ralph Page Dance Legacy Weekend, January 15, 2011. The caller is Tony Parkes; musicians are Randy Miller, fiddle; Peter Siegel, mandolin; and Bob McQuillen, piano. The tune is Dusty Bob's Jig. Tony found…