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Keith Blackmon & Pony Boy

Creator: Keith Blackmon / Nils Fredland (January 19, 2013)

Nils Fredland led a workshop session that included many dances from the Keith Blackmon collection at the Ralph Page Dance Legacy Weekend, Durham, NH, January 19, 2013. Here, he speaks briefly about Blackmon's calling career in western New York state and his dances, which have now been published by Country Dance and Song Society as "New River Train." The clip then includes some of Blackmon's setting of the Texas Star figures to the tune of Pony Boy. (The tune Pony Boy was recorded for a square dance with different figures by the well-known caller Floyd Woodhull, also from New York; see the related item.)

Collection: Northern squares
Subjects: Northern / Singing, Person
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Item Relations

This Item is related to Item: Pony Boy (clip) - Floyd Woodhull
This Item is related to Item: New River Train
This Item is related to Item: Bully of the Town
This Item is related to Item: San Antonio Rose

Citation

Keith Blackmon / Nils Fredland, “Keith Blackmon & Pony Boy,” Square Dance History Project, accessed February 23, 2025, https://squaredancehistory.org/items/show/1124.
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