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The most famous hoedown in classical music is the section entitled "Hoe-Down" from the Rodeo ballet by Aaron Copland (1942). The most frequently heard version is from the Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo, which Copland extracted from the ballet shortly after its premiere; the dance episodes were first performed in 1943 by the Boston Pops conducted by Arthur Fiedler.
The Bent Creek Ranch Square Dance Team dancing at the Mountain Music Festival in Asheville, North Carolina. A square dance is a dance for four couples, or eight dancers in total, arranged in a square, with one couple on each side, facing the middle of the square. Square dances are part of a broad spectrum of dances known by various names ...
Fenton G. "Jonesy" Jones (June 2, 1907 – June 30, 2003) was an American musician, best known as a square dance caller. He was widely described as a "nationally-known [dance] caller". [1] [2] Jones was born in 1907 in Los Angeles, California. [3] His mother, who died when Jones was seven years old, was a pianist and guitarist. [4]
Chinese square dancing clubs, using recorded music and catering to elderly Chinese, have existed in Beijing for at least a decade. [1] However, the first time members of these clubs heard live square dancing music was in November 2012 when the Weasels and visiting old time fiddler Michael Ismerio toured through universities, nightclubs and ...
A traditional square dance in Concord, Massachusetts. Traditional square dance is a generic American term for any style of American square dance other than modern Western.The term can mean (1) any of the American regional styles (broadly, Northeastern, Southeastern, and Western) that existed before around 1950, when modern Western style began to develop out of a blend of those regional styles ...
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.
Stay Tuned is a studio album by Chet Atkins, released in 1985 on Columbia Records.His guests included George Benson, Mark Knopfler, Steve Lukather, and Earl Klugh. [2]Stay Tuned was the first "Nashville" album promoted specifically to compact disc purchasers.
The "Date of First Commercial Recording" refers to songs for which Astaire's recording was the first release of the song to the record-buying public. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] By default, this list is sorted in alphabetical order by song title; however, since it is a sortable wikitable , it can be sorted on the basis of any column simply by clicking on ...