Kat,

I do think that square dancing, as you knew it in school, has, over the last 35 years slowly been combined with clog-dancing. Large ensemble groups like the Fiddle Puppets, The Green Grass Cloggers and several other well known aggregations played just about all of the large folk festivals through the 1970s and '80s. Juel Ulven, Phil Cooper, Kate Early and The Fox Valley Folklore Society here in Illinois (where our governors make our license plates) sponsor dances of this kind just about every week of the year. Vicki Moss in the Washington D.C. area, I'm sure, is still involved with those dances since leaving our area. I bet you know of dances like these I'm talking about around you too.

Dancing is how much of the Old Timey music survives in the USA in this millenium. Concert sets and gigs, like those we in the '50s and '60s heard the New Lost City Ramblers present to urban audiences are fairly rare these days. But the dance scene is going strong --- backed by Old Time string bands.

Art