Dance to the Music and Listen to the Calls: The Square Dances and Calling of Jerry Goodwin
Larry Edelman produced this video in 1987 while studying square dance calling with Jerry Goodwin. The apprenticeship was supported by a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Recorded at the Prosperity Fire Hall in western Pennsylvania the video features Jerry Goodwin calling with the Mountain Express (Chuck Monticello, fiddle; Joe Frye, guitar; Bob Hill, piano; and Dodie Goodwin, bass).
"Dancing in Prosperity: The Square Dances of Jerry Goodwin" was created by Larry Edelman in 1980 and updated in October of 2013; it provides a detailed description of Jerry Goodwin's dances.
See also:
• 1987 newspaper story describing Edelman's apprenticeship with Goodwin
• a collection of eight dances at a workshop on Square Dances of Jerry Goodwin led by Larry Edelman at the Brasstown Dare To Be Square weekend in 2011
• an interview with Edelman in which he describes his experiences studying dances in southwestern Pennsylvania.
• Jerry Goodwin died May 30, 2015; he was 93. An obituary was posted online.
Subjects: Person, Southern / Appalachian / Four-couple squares
Tags: Birdie in the Cage, Jerry Goodwin, Larry Edelman, Pokey Eight, swing in the rear, Take a Little Peek, whirligig around
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Larry Edelman produced this video in 1987 while studying square dance calling with Jerry Goodwin. The apprenticeship was supported by a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Recorded at the Prosperity Fire Hall in western Pennsylvania the video features Jerry Goodwin calling with the Mountain Express (Chuck Monticello, fiddle; Joe Frye, guitar; Bob Hill, piano; and Dodie Goodwin, bass).
"Dancing in Prosperity: The Square Dances of Jerry Goodwin" was created by Larry Edelman in 1980 and updated in October of 2013; it provides a detailed description of Jerry Goodwin's dances.
See also:
• 1987 newspaper story describing Edelman's apprenticeship with Goodwin
• a collection of eight dances at a workshop on Square Dances of Jerry Goodwin led by Larry Edelman at the Brasstown Dare To Be Square weekend in 2011
• an interview with Edelman in which he describes his experiences studying dances in southwestern Pennsylvania.
• Jerry Goodwin died May 30, 2015; he was 93. An obituary was posted online.