Nils Fredland - Birdie in the Cage and Seven Hands Round
Title
Nils Fredland - Birdie in the Cage and Seven Hands Round
Alternative title
Ladies Whirligig
Subject
Southern / Appalachian / Four-couple squares
Description
Birdie in the Cage is a traditional square dance figure and a common one; a search for "birdie" on this SDHP website will bring up more than half a dozen other examples. In this version, each of the "birdies" fly out in turn to join another square before they return to their original square at the end of the dance. The figure at the start is also known as Ladies Whirligig.
The caller is Nils Fredland, recorded at the "Retrospective" session at the Ralph Page Dance Legacy Weekend, January 19, 2013, Durham, New Hampshire. This year's session focused on square dances of many styles. The musicians are Notorious (Eden MacAdam Somer, fiddle, and Larry Unger, guitar); the tune is "Buck Mountain."
Complete instructions for the dance will be found in the RPDLW 2013 Syllabus, which will be online (starting in January 2014) here. The dance is also described in detail in On the Beat with Ralph Sweet.
The caller is Nils Fredland, recorded at the "Retrospective" session at the Ralph Page Dance Legacy Weekend, January 19, 2013, Durham, New Hampshire. This year's session focused on square dances of many styles. The musicians are Notorious (Eden MacAdam Somer, fiddle, and Larry Unger, guitar); the tune is "Buck Mountain."
Complete instructions for the dance will be found in the RPDLW 2013 Syllabus, which will be online (starting in January 2014) here. The dance is also described in detail in On the Beat with Ralph Sweet.
Date Created
January 19, 2013
Contributor
David Millstone
Spatial Coverage
USA, New Hampshire, Durham
Temporal Coverage
2000 -