Paddock Parade - Don Armstrong
Creator: Kentucky Dance Foundation, David and Linda Lewis (November, 1996)
Recorded at the York Contra Holiday, November, 1996; Don Armstrong, caller. His instructions for the dance can be found here. (If that website is unavailable, they are also reprinted below.)
From a set of videos issued by Kentucky Dance Foundation, c/o Folk Dancer Record Center, 6290 Olin Road, Brandenburg, Kentucky 40108, and used with permission. The music is Wilshire Tempest (or Wiltshire Tempest), recorded by the Cecil Sharp Folk Dance Band. Armstrong's instructions date the dance to "circa 1700" but we cannot locate a primary source for the dance, this date is unsubstantiated, and (in the opinion of the SDHP editors) highly unlikely.
The dance, a double quadrille, includes a grand square figure for all eight couples. In this version, as couples back out of the center they stay side by side with their partner; other dances with a grand square for eight couples sometimes have the dancers staying in columns as they back out.
The dance, a double quadrille, includes a grand square figure for all eight couples. In this version, as couples back out of the center they stay side by side with their partner; other dances with a grand square for eight couples sometimes have the dancers staying in columns as they back out.
Square dance enthusiasts will note Bob Osgood (with the eyepatch) dancing in the set.
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PADDOCK PARADE
Double Quadrille – circa 1700
Notes from Don Armstrong
Music: "Wilshire Tempest" by the Cecil Sharp Folk Dance Band.
Track 7. LS CD-1005, instrumental;Track 8, LS CD-1005, prompted by Don Armstrong
Formation: Eight couples in a square, two couples in each place
Opener:
8 Honor partners and corners
12 8 ladies grand chain to diagonal opposite (8), courtesy turn (4)
12 Ladies grain chain back as above
32 Grand Square (full)
Figure for head couples
8 All forward and back
8 Heads forward, bring sides home, ending in 4-couple lines at heads
8 Partners do sa do, end facing across
8 ACROSS, right and left through
8 Diagonally LEFT, right and left through
8 Diagonally LEFT, right and left through
8 ACROSS, right and left through
8 Diagonally LEFT, right and left through
8 ACROSS, right and left through
8 All forward and back
8 Diagonally RIGHT, right and left through
8 ACROSS, right and left through
8 Diagonally RIGHT, right and left through
8 ACROSS, LADIES CHAIN
8 Chain back
8 All forward and back
8 All forward again, fall back into home positions
REPEAT FIGURE FOR SIDE COUPLES, then:
Ending
32 Grand Square (full)
12 Ladies grand chain as in opener
12 Ladies grand chain back
8 Honor CORNERS, then PARTNERS.
Subjects: Quadrille
Tags: Don Armstrong, double quadrille, Kentucky Dance Foundation, Lloyd Shaw Foundation, Paddock Parade, quadrille, York Contra
Tags: Don Armstrong, double quadrille, Kentucky Dance Foundation, Lloyd Shaw Foundation, Paddock Parade, quadrille, York Contra
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Citation
Kentucky Dance Foundation, David and Linda Lewis, “Paddock Parade - Don Armstrong,” Square Dance History Project, accessed February 23, 2025, https://squaredancehistory.org/items/show/262.
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Paddock Parade - Don Armstrong
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Recorded at the York Contra Holiday, November, 1996; Don Armstrong, caller. His instructions for the dance can be found here. (If that website is unavailable, they are also reprinted below.)
From a set of videos issued by Kentucky Dance Foundation, c/o Folk Dancer Record Center, 6290 Olin Road, Brandenburg, Kentucky 40108, and used with permission. The music is Wilshire Tempest (or Wiltshire Tempest), recorded by the Cecil Sharp Folk Dance Band. Armstrong's instructions date the dance to "circa 1700" but we cannot locate a primary source for the dance, this date is unsubstantiated, and (in the opinion of the SDHP editors) highly unlikely.
The dance, a double quadrille, includes a grand square figure for all eight couples. In this version, as couples back out of the center they stay side by side with their partner; other dances with a grand square for eight couples sometimes have the dancers staying in columns as they back out.
The dance, a double quadrille, includes a grand square figure for all eight couples. In this version, as couples back out of the center they stay side by side with their partner; other dances with a grand square for eight couples sometimes have the dancers staying in columns as they back out.
Square dance enthusiasts will note Bob Osgood (with the eyepatch) dancing in the set.
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PADDOCK PARADE
Double Quadrille – circa 1700
Notes from Don Armstrong
Music: "Wilshire Tempest" by the Cecil Sharp Folk Dance Band.
Track 7. LS CD-1005, instrumental;Track 8, LS CD-1005, prompted by Don Armstrong
Formation: Eight couples in a square, two couples in each place
Opener:
8 Honor partners and corners
12 8 ladies grand chain to diagonal opposite (8), courtesy turn (4)
12 Ladies grain chain back as above
32 Grand Square (full)
Figure for head couples
8 All forward and back
8 Heads forward, bring sides home, ending in 4-couple lines at heads
8 Partners do sa do, end facing across
8 ACROSS, right and left through
8 Diagonally LEFT, right and left through
8 Diagonally LEFT, right and left through
8 ACROSS, right and left through
8 Diagonally LEFT, right and left through
8 ACROSS, right and left through
8 All forward and back
8 Diagonally RIGHT, right and left through
8 ACROSS, right and left through
8 Diagonally RIGHT, right and left through
8 ACROSS, LADIES CHAIN
8 Chain back
8 All forward and back
8 All forward again, fall back into home positions
REPEAT FIGURE FOR SIDE COUPLES, then:
Ending
32 Grand Square (full)
12 Ladies grand chain as in opener
12 Ladies grand chain back
8 Honor CORNERS, then PARTNERS.
Source
Kentucky Dance Foundation
Date Created
November, 1996
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