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GUEST,nora guthrie Margot Mayo - biographic (square dance, et al.) (26) RE: Margot Mayo - biographic (square dance, et al.) 28 Oct 15


I love reading about Margo. My brothers and I were at the Brooklyn Community Woodward School (that's the real name, not Woodward School)from 1958 - 1964. Margo was our music/folkdance teacher. She was brilliant at teaching us all kinds of songs, fearlessly making us learn 4 part harmonies at very young ages! After school we would take the bus down to DeKalb Avenue, hop on the BMT (to Coney Island) and sing all the parts we had learned that day on the way home. We "entertained" the subway riders with choral versions of "Lift Every Voice", "We Gather Together" and many many others. This was our NYC style doo op moment, all acapella! "Drunken Sailor" was another subway favorite. We also had square dancing twice a week - learned all the reels and squares, and Orchestra, where we all performed with recorders, autoharps, triangles, bongos and many other instruments. Margo was simply the foundation of all of our music and folk culture-to-be futures, plugging away (standing up) at her piano and yes, with a cig dangling from her lips.


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