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Square dancing at Augusta Heritage Festival - 1994
An evening dance at the Augusta Workshops in Elkins, West Virginia on July 15, 1994. Larry Edelman calls the figures to the music of the New Dixie Entertainers: Mike Bryant, Marcia Bryant, Brett… View itemSound
Big circle dance - Manny Wiener & American Square Dance Group
Caller Manny Wiener leads a big circle dance—here introduced as a Kentucky running set—with members of Margot Mayo's American Square Dance Group. This is a portion of a half hour radio… View itemDocument
Swamp Country Dance
This is a first-person account of attending a country dance in Georgia in the mid-1950s. The author describes the big circle formation in detail: "A single dance would go like this; The… View itemMoving Image
Big Circle square dance - Glenn Bannerman
Glenn Bannerman, caller, leads a big circle at MerleFest, 2014 View itemSound
Kentucky Set Running - 1917 firsthand account
After graduation from Vassar and a summer holiday with family, Marguerite Butler, at age 22, headed for Pine Mountain Settlement School in a remote area of eastern Kentucky to try to make some… View itemDocument
Smoky Mountain Square Dances
NOTE: This is a large file and might take a while to load.To read the actual booklet, choose the DOWNLOAD link or select the source file located by scrolling to Additional Files.This collection,… View itemDocument
Traditional Square Dance of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina
Detailed description of big set dances on Ocracoke Island, and an attempt in 1996 to re-create a dance tradition that had died out. Note: when you scroll through the PDF, you’ll see the cover page,… View itemDocument
Square Dance in Haywood County, NC
Detailed look at western North Carolina, a region rich in square dance traditions including that of Sam Queen and the Soco Gap Square Dancers. Jamison starts his article with a look at the turn of the… View itemDocument
Origin of Appalachian Square Dance
By ":Appalachian square dance," the author is referring to big circle or big set dances, not specifically to four-couple squares. Thurston rejects the notion that Appalachian squares did not… View itemWebsite
Virginia square dance, 1925, silent movie
This silent movie footage, created by Fox News, shows dancers and fiddlers recorded in an outdoor setting in Quitman [sic], Virginia. We cannot identify this location since it does not show up on… View itemWebsite
Traditional Square Dance Figures
One section of the Lloyd Shaw Foundation's website provides detailed instructions (and source information) for 20 figures from traditional Western and southern Appalachian squares:Arkansas… View itemSound
Glenn Bannerman - big circle dances, audio
Two examples of big sets from western North Carolina, called by Glenn Bannerman with music from the Stoney Creek Boys. These audio files come from two recordings, "Mountain Dance Music Comes Alive"… View item
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