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unusual facts about Square dance


Square dance

Scottish country dance: Scottish dances cover a wide range of formations, including many square dances.


Cornstalk fiddle

Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem The Corn-Stalk Fiddle describes the construction of the fiddle and playing it at a square dance.


see also

Hillbilly Hare

The square dance song starts as a straight forward version of "Skip to My Lou" while the jukebox band starts and plays and Bugs dances in a dress.

Samantha Bumgarner

Among the other (racially integrated) performers were American concert artists Marian Anderson, Lawrence Tibbett, and Kate Smith, singing classical and light popular music; and folk performers Lily May Ledford and the Coon Creek Girls; Josh White; the Golden Gate Quartet; Sam Queen and the Soco Gap Square Dance Team, who demonstrated clog dancing; and Alan Lomax, singing cowboy songs.

Sannella

Ted Sannella - contra dance and square dance caller; social dance choreographer; father of Donald Sannella