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American Squares Summer School, 1
American Squares magazine sponsored a series of summer dance camps for eager square dancers. Faculty included Jimmy Clossin, Ralph Piper, Charley Thomas, Fred and Mary Collette, and Luke… View itemStill Image
Jimmy Clossin - record album
Cover and label of instrumental album produced by Jimmy Clossin View itemSound
Jimmy Clossin, producer - square dance instrumental music
Although he never recorded albums featuring his calling, Jimmy Clossin did produce recordings of instrumental music. These clips come from Square Dances without Calls (1940), with music by the Blue… View itemStill Image
Jimmy Clossin - photos at Camp Ihduhapi
A collection of photos showing Jimmy Clossin at Camp Ihduhapi, Loretto, Minnesota, August 27 - September 4, 1950. Other instructors at the camp, which was sponsored by American Squares magazine, were… View itemStill Image
Jimmy Clossin - card, biography, flyer, letter, news story
Jimmy Clossin was an influential Texas caller who unfortunately never recorded commercially. (This Square Dance History Site would dearly love to post clips from live recordings—please contact us if… View itemMoving Image
Berea Country Dancers - Set Running (1917)
In this re-creation of dances from 1917, the Berea College Country Dancers, under the direction of Ethel Capps, show several figures described by Cecil Sharp in his Country Dance Book V. Sharp first… View itemMoving Image
Bill Bailey - Debbie Gray
This is the first in a series of videos posted from a 1989 program of singing squares presented by caller Debbie Gray and the Deb-U-Tones (vocals by Alice La Pierre and Julia Huestis). Musicians are… View itemDocument
Rural Square Dances in East Tennessee: A Personal Account of Visits to Four Communities
This article appeared (1981) in the scholarly journal published by Country Dance and Song Society. The author describes four East Tennessee square dance communities, including discussion of typical… View itemWebsite
Midwestern Fiddle Masters:
Michigan's Les Raber and Indiana's Francis Geels
Biographies of two fiddlers, each of whom played extensively for square dances in Michigan and Indiana. View itemWebsite
Michigan Fiddle Style
Folklorist Eliot Singer presented a paper—"How to Start Figuring Out What "Michigan Fiddle Style" Is"—at a Michigan Historical Society meeting in 1988. In it, he references… View itemDocument
Otto Wood - singing squares
Caller Otto Wood's calls and notes for singing squares. You can hear Belle of the Ball called by Ira Huntley here; it's the second dance in the set of three on this link.This collection was created by… View itemWebsite
Square and Contra Dance Posters
A collection of 43 flyers and posters collected by Steve Green that advertise contra and square dance events in northwestern Massachusetts, southwest New Hampshire, and southeast Vermont dating from… View item
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