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Contra dance (also contradance, contra-dance and other variant spellings) is a form of folk dancing made up of long lines of couples. It has mixed origins from English country dance, Scottish country dance, and French dance styles in the 17th century. Sometimes described as New England folk dance or Appalachian folk dance, contra dances can be ...
The Gypsy Gyppo String Band was an American an old-time music band, based in Seattle, Washington . Active in the 1970s, it brought a contemporary sensibility to this music, treating it "as source material rather than holy writ." [ 1] The band played a key role in reviving this music, bringing it out to the dying milieu of Grange halls and the ...
Contra dance choreography specifies the dance formation, the figures, and the sequence of those figures in a contra dance. The figures repeat, ideally, in a graceful flowing pattern, aligned with the phrasing of the music. Contra dance figures (with a few exceptions) do not have defined footwork; within the limits of the music and the comfort ...
www.greatbearmusic.com. Great Bear was a North American contra dance band composed of brothers Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand, their mother Kim Yerton, Chris Miller, Rebecca Bosworth-Clemens, and Dana Billings. It was known as the Great Bear Trio when touring with the first three members, [3] and as the Andrew and Noah Band when touring with only ...
1940s–2014. Bob " Mr. Mac " McQuillen (June 27, 1923 – February 4, 2014) was a teacher, musician, and prolific composer of contra dance tunes. [1] He was a recipient of a 2002 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.
This is a list of bands and other musical groups who play for contra dances. Pages in category "Contra dance bands" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
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