Deer Park Lancers - Tony Parkes
This dance was taught by Tony Parkes as part of his workshop session on New England Square Dances, recorded November 19, 2011, at the Dare To Be Square Weekend, John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC. Co-sponsored by the Country Dance and Song Society (CDSS), the event brought together six experienced callers representing different styles of traditional and modern square dance with about 70 square dance enthusiasts.
The dance was adapted by several New England callers through the years from Figure 1 of the Deer Park Lancers, which appears in call books of the 1890s. There's a reference to the Deer Park Lancers in the Baltimore Sun, June 13, 1890, page 6. Attributed to "Professor George T. Sheldon, of Washington" it is one of several dances introduced at a meeting of the National Association of Teachers of Dancing of the United States and Canada held at Lehmann's Hall, on June 12, 1890. Ed Moody, writing in Ralph Page's magazine Northern Junket in 1970, gave Ralph the credit for discovering and reviving it.
Musicians for this workshop were Jim Morrison and Steve Hickman, fiddles; Claudio Buchwald, piano; Sam Bartlett, banjo. The tune is "Montreal Breakdown;" it was recorded in the 1950s by the Northwest Wranglers and released on the Aqua label in Seattle.
Subjects: Northern / Prompt & Patter
Tags: Claudio Buchwald, Deer Park Lancers, Ed Moody, G.T. Sheldon, Jim Morrison, Lancers, New England Squares, quadrille, Ralph Page, Reel de Montreal, Sam Bartlett, Steve Hickman, Tony Parkes
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The dance was adapted by several New England callers through the years from Figure 1 of the Deer Park Lancers, which appears in call books of the 1890s. There's a reference to the Deer Park Lancers in the Baltimore Sun, June 13, 1890, page 6. Attributed to "Professor George T. Sheldon, of Washington" it is one of several dances introduced at a meeting of the National Association of Teachers of Dancing of the United States and Canada held at Lehmann's Hall, on June 12, 1890. Ed Moody, writing in Ralph Page's magazine Northern Junket in 1970, gave Ralph the credit for discovering and reviving it.
Musicians for this workshop were Jim Morrison and Steve Hickman, fiddles; Claudio Buchwald, piano; Sam Bartlett, banjo. The tune is "Montreal Breakdown;" it was recorded in the 1950s by the Northwest Wranglers and released on the Aqua label in Seattle.