Folklore: Story About An Old Time Dance 1800s

Subject: Folklore: Story About An Old Time Dance 1800s
From: Heartistry Music
Date: 10 Aug 16 - 03:50 PM

Hello Everybody,
    New to Mudcat.
I'm looking for a story I read some time ago.
For the life of me I can't remember where, or who it was by.
I think it was in a book similar to American Folklore by B. A. Botkin.
The story was about a dance in a house at night somewhere in either West Virginia or Kentucky (maybe somewhere else?) in the 1800s and described the fiddlers drinking whiskey and the general pandemonium.
Does this ring a bell for any of y'all?
Thanks!
Tom

Subject: RE: Folklore: Story About An Old Time Dance 1800s
From: GUEST,CJB
Date: 15 Aug 16 - 04:29 PM

You could ask on the 'Trad-Dance-Callers' Group on Yahoo.

Trad-Dance-Callers [[e-mail]]

Subject: RE: Folklore: Story About An Old Time Dance 1800s
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Aug 16 - 03:36 PM

The guys who wrote these pages might be able to help ...

http://www.kickery.com/2015/08/pioneer-dance-in-the-northwest.html

http://www.voyagerrecords.com/arNWFiddlers.htm

http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/ffv1a.htm

http://www.indianafiddlersgathering.org/sites/default/files/gallery/A%20Retrospective%20on%20Traditional%20Fiddling%20in%20Indiana.pdf

CJB

Subject: RE: Folklore: Story About An Old Time Dance 1800s
From: GUEST,Fred Feild
Date: 17 Aug 16 - 12:33 PM

Lots of accounts of dances like that here:

https://fredfeild.wordpress.com/