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Topic: how many bands,do a squaredance ,in there set ? |
Terry Kinnear
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Erie ,Pennsylvania
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Posted 31 Oct 2007 3:27 pm |
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My country band, we mostly have to do 2 or 3 sets,of squaredancing,a nite .every year we do a nite of squaredancing ,for the 4h kids in our area.as a fund raiser .the kids make out,really good. the money helps them start there next season. this year we ,had at least 150 kids ,and adults .squaredancing. we are booked for next year.I was just wondering,how many other bands, do squaredancing . next month we are booked out 6 gigs,so far. and 3 more to conferm. . We have 5 band members,we get 75.00 each for 4 hours. not bad for around here. If we play clubs,we sometimes ,do a squaredance,but not all the time. We have been playing steady for the past 5 years.every other weekend. TK
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JW Day
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Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA
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Posted 1 Nov 2007 4:59 pm Square dances
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| Terry, in the part of Ky. that I live in, it is almost mandatory to play at least 1 or 2 square dances per set. That is if your band is going to be booked for any length of time. Heck, I have come to kind of enjoy the music now and it is certainly good practice for learning the speed picking. Fraturnally, JW Day |
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Terry Kinnear
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Erie ,Pennsylvania
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Posted 1 Nov 2007 5:21 pm
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JW.it certainly gives you a chance to speed pick.also it gives the fiddle player a breather. People really seem to enjoy there squaredancing. maybe thats why, we have been playing for 5 years.TK
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Les Green
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Jefferson City, MO, R.I.P.
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Posted 2 Nov 2007 6:44 am
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I'm currently working in 2 bands and we do on the average 2 squares per night.
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Les Green
73 MSA D10 8&4, 74 MSA S10 3&5, Legrande II 8&9, Fender Squier 6 string, Genesis III, Peavey 1000 |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 2 Nov 2007 6:54 am
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Things are different back east, aren't they?  |
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Rick Nicklas
From:
Verona, Mo. (deceased)
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Posted 2 Nov 2007 7:03 am
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That's right Barry, I couldn't believe it either when I moved back here from the Bay Area. Every dance we play requires at least two square dances and something called a waterfall which I do like because all the girls parade right by my steel and the tunes are usually 2/4. Even the high school's enjoy the traditional square dances here and that I found really shocking !! But, man do they have fun. It's a far cry from the "Light House" and "Sil's Club"..  |
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Mike Jones
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Goodlettsville,TN,USA
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Posted 2 Nov 2007 8:08 am
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At the club I work on Saturday night, we do at least two Squares a set and one line dance. I have the honor of working with Drew Convington a great fiddle player and we play the tunes fairly quickly. 
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 2 Nov 2007 8:24 am
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| Personally Rick, I'll take the Lighthouse ..... |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 2 Nov 2007 2:53 pm Swuare Dances were in back then..........
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Back in the early 1950's, we used to play two full hours of c/w music. We'd take the 11:00 PM break then they'd do three square dances and a couple of silly little get acquainted dances.......forming the TWO BIG CIRCLES, "Put you little foot" etc., and then big circle with man, woman, man, etc. They'd circle to the left then stop and folks would grab the person directly opposite of themselves. They do this perhaps a dozen times and then it would be over and everyone got back to cinching up their date for the evening.
THOSE were the days, such fun! |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 2 Nov 2007 3:27 pm
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| ...sounds like the Hokie-Pokie. (For English members, that's the Okie-Kokie.) |
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Roger Edgington
From:
San Antonio, Texas USA
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Posted 4 Nov 2007 10:59 am
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I cut my teeth in Ohio playing for round and square dances in the 50s and 60s. Sometimes I played bass on the square dances and steel on the round dances.
It's not done that way here in Texas. We have what they call "step dances" that sort of take place for square dances. The most common is the Cotton eyed Joe and the Schottish,put your little foot,ten pretty girls,the snowball,Paul Jones and the stroll. Our band has gotten away from step dances unless requested and we don't do line dances. |
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John De Maille
From:
On a Mountain in Upstate Halcottsville, N.Y.
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Posted 4 Nov 2007 11:28 am
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| When we occasionally play barn dances, my wife calls a few of them. I think they're a hoot watching all the new learners bonk into each other. All in all, it's a great time. |
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