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Old Gray Bonnet singing square
Jim Mayo, caller.
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Best Things in Life Are Free singing square
Jim Mayo calls a simple series of modern square dance figures at the Saturday night dance party.
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Pigtails and Ribbons singing square
Bob Dalsemer calls (and plays accordion) on this singing square, which he learned from Otto and Marguerite Wood, who were part of the John C. Campbell Folk School community for years. This clip includes a walkthrough. Recorded at Dare To Be Square, Brasstown, NC, November 19, 2011.
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When the Saints Go Marching In
Jim Mayo, caller. A dance in modern square dance style set to the well-known tune. Jim says this is the signature dance of his friend Joe Casey, another MWSD caller from New England. Recorded at Dare To Be Square, Brasstown, NC, November 19, 2011. For more info about this project, go to...
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MWSD 5 - We're Gonna Have a Ball
This is the final dance from Jim Mayo's Modern Western Square Dance workshop, with the refrain, "You do the dancing, and I'll do the call... we're gonna have us a ball!"
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MWSD 3b - Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Having just introduced Swing Thru, Run, and Trade, Jim here incorporates them into a singing call. (For the preceding introduction and dance, watch MWSD 3a in this series.)
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MWSD 2c - 12th Street Rag
Incorporates figures that have just been taught into a singing square.
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This Land Is Your Land singing square
Jim Mayo calls to "This Land Is Your Land."
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My LIttle Girl singing square
Tony Parkes calls the final square at the Dare To Be Square weekend held November 18-20, 2011, at the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC. Enjoy the humorous rhyming patter he employs in each verse!
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Down Yonder
Bob Dalsemer calls the singing square dance Down Yonder. He credits the Handy Square Dance Book (Cooperative Recreation Service, Delaware, OH) as his source.
