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Blue Eyes (clip) - Al Brundage
This is an excerpt from Al Brundage's recording on the Windsor label. You'll hear the second time through the figure and then the middle break. View itemStill Image
Buffalo Boy Go Round the Outside
Lawrence Loy is the caller, working with Carson Robison and his Old Timers. (Click on the Additional Files link to hear the audio clip.) You can also download the cover or the instructions from inside… View itemMoving Image
Buffalo Gals - Bob Livingston
Bob Livingston, caller, with the Falltown String Band: Jack Arensmeyer, acoustic guitar and mandolin; Jason Burbank, keyboard, fiddle; Jack Nelson, bass; Champ Dickinson, electric guitar, and Linwood… View itemMoving Image
Bully of the Town
Nils Fredland calls a singing square from the repertoire of Keith Blackmon, an upstate New York square dance caller. The dance figures are the familiar Cut Off Six, also known as Divide the Ring. A… View itemSound
Bully of the Town (clip) - David Park Williams
Singing square variation of the old Divide the Ring or Cut Off Six routine. From the CD set "Mostly Quadrilles," containing two CDs of called dances, 24 in all, and two CDs of just… View itemMoving Image
Catskill Mountains square dance - 1950s
Short clip showing teenagers dancing; the caller plays accordion, joined by a fiddler and a drummer. You can see the men turning the ladies under as they pass them on a grand right and left. View itemMoving Image
Chime Bells - Tod Whittemore
Tod Whittemore calling at his dance series at the VFW, Cambridge, MA, December, 1985. The first half of the footage shows dancers, and then the camera is turned toward the caller. Tod Whittemore is… View itemSound
Chip Hendrickson - square dance caller's workshop
This is a recording of a workshop led by Chip Hendrickson at the 1988 Ralph Page Dance Legacy Weekend in Durham, NH. Chip illustrated different calling styles and the effect of different kinds of… View itemMoving Image
Cindy - Bob Dalsemer
Cindy is a singing call as called by Maryland Line caller Jake Jacoby in the mid-1970's. The tune seems to be an amalgam of Cindy and Oh Susannah. At the Dare To Be Square dance weekend, Bob… View itemMoving Image
Climbing Up The Golden Stairs - Adam Boyce
The caller warned the dancers that after going through the figures three times, he was going to speed up the tempo the last time through. Traditional singing square dance, recorded in West Newbury,… View item
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