Talk about living traditions. In the 1970's I followed around and played with a square dance band that had been very popular for decades in Connecticut and were playing dances sometimes using popular show tunes from broadway in the 1920's and 30's . Talk about key changing problems for a banjo player !!! When they stayed with tunes like Ragg Time Annie and soldjers Joy I was in heaven .. I think Marching Through Georgia had been played around here since the 1860's . (Sorry southern friends.) . square dances and "kitchen Parties" were very very poular here into the 1950's and the dances still are. Kitchen parties seem to be comming back in the form of what might be called house concerts but not to the level they were pertaned to music in Litchfield county . More soon and thanks for the thread.. . Guy Wolff