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- Subject is exactly "Traditional Western (pre-1940)"
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Blue Bonnet Set - 1939
This 1939 newspaper pictoral spread looks at Herb Greggerson's Blue Bonnet Set, the team that won the Texas square dancing championship in March that year. Before that, the prize was often taken… View itemSound
Bluebonnet Squares with Melton Luttrell
These are recordings of two sessions led by Melton Luttrell at the 1987 National Square Dance Convention in Houston, Texas. The focus of his sessions was square dancing as led by Herb Greggerson in… View itemStill Image
Bob Sumrall - newspaper clippings
Two newspaper clippings about Texas caller Bob Sumrall. The first, from January 14, 1947, focuses on a new square dance team that he formed and that will be performing at the Inaugural Ball for the… View itemDocument
Bob Sumrall - Olcutt Sanders correspondence, 1939
These letters between Bob Sumrall and J. Olcutt Sanders provide a glimpse into Texas square dances in the late 1930s. Sanders was a serious student of square dance history, part of a group of… View itemMoving Image
Butterfly Whirl- Fred Feild
Fred Feild calls a traditional square dance, held at the home of Marion Waudby in Tucson, Arizona, May, 1999. Other dances filmed during this session are:Grapevine Twist (two couple)Grapevine… View itemMoving Image
California Heritage Dancers exhibition
The video shows the California Heritage Dance Group in a demonstration at the California State Square Dance Convention in San Diego, CA in April 2011. The demonstration shows the Spanish influence on… View itemMoving Image
Chain 2 Ladies, Chain 3 Ladies - Bill Litchman - Traditional Western Square Dances 2b
(This clip shows the actual dance; a separate video shows the walkthrough.) Bill Litchman taught this dance as part of his session (November 19, 2011) on Traditional Western Squares at the Dare To… View itemSound
Cheat or Swing (clip) - Sandy Bradley
Sandy Bradley calling with the Arm and Hammer String Band (Vermont): Pete Sutherland, fiddle; Joel Eckhaus, guitar; Hilary Woodruff, bass; Sid Blum, banjo; from Potluck & Dance Tonite, Alcazar… View itemMoving Image
Cheyenne Mountain Dancers - Docey-Doe Hoedown
Third in a series of three silent films made to accompany Shaw's 1947 recordings with the "Duel in the Sun" Orchestra. Working from an incomplete copy of the footage, we have attempted to create an… View itemMoving Image
Cheyenne Mountain Dancers - Split Ring Hash
Second in a series of three silent films made to accompany Shaw's 1947 recordings with the "Duel in the Sun" Orchestra. Working from an incomplete copy of the footage, we have attempted to create an… View itemMoving Image
Cheyenne Mountain Dancers - Star by the Right
First in a series of three silent films made to accompany Shaw's 1947 recordings with the "Duel in the Sun" Orchestra. Working from an incomplete copy of the footage, we have attempted to create an… View itemStill Image
Cheyenne Mountain Dancers in DC
Note: click on the image to get a larger picture.The Cheyenne Mountain Dancers appeared at the National Folk Festival in Washington, DC, in 1939, their first trip to the East from their Colorado… View item
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