"The Caller" (or in Geordie dialect – The Caaller) is a Geordie folk song written in the 19th century by Edward “Ned” Corvan, in a style deriving from...
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The Caller may refer to: The Caller (folk song), a 19th-century song written by Edward “Ned” Corvan The Caller (1987 film), a 1987 mystery-thriller film...
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bands or individuals to locate each other and narrative songs that used folk tales and folk motifs, often making use of homemade instruments. In early...
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Square dance (redirect from Colorado state folk dance)
definitions from callers across the country in order to preserve that dance form and make it available to other teachers. The American folk music revival...
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New England. Numerous New England folk dance callers, leaders and musicians have had formative experiences at the festival, and in turn have inspired...
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A caller is a person who prompts dance figures in such dances as line dance, square dance, and contra dance. The caller might be one of the participating...
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Cèilidh (category European folk dances)
will often be a caller for the dance, though it is a very different style from square-dancing caller. A céilí caller is usually the teacher or most experienced...
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Contra dance (category Folk dance)
England Folk Festival Association. Jennings, Larry; Dan Pearl; Ted Sannella (2004). The Contra Connection & Basically for Callers: Reprints from the Country...
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score all through the movie. "The Yellow Rose of Texas" is a traditional folk song. The original love song has become associated with the legend that Emily...
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Tony Saletan (redirect from The Song Bag)
an album on Folk-Legacy Records, Tony and Irene Saletan: Folk Songs & Ballads. They also made a 7" vinyl recording of four songs for the Boston Mutual...
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Gold Badge Award from the English Folk Dance and Song Society in 1961. Her students included dance writer and caller Bob Dalsemer. She continued dancing...
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Gandy dancer (category American folk music)
In 1996 two former callers, John Henry Mealing and Cornelius Wright, received National Heritage Fellowship awards as "Master Folk and Traditional Artists"...
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Ted Sannella (category Contra dance callers)
dance and international folk dance caller and choreographer who was active in the region surrounding Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. He was...
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Bob Dalsemer (category Contra dance callers)
Coordinator at the John C. Campbell Folk School. While there, he developed the Folk School's first website and launched the weeklong dance caller and musician...
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Esso Northumbria (category Ships built on the River Tyne)
Canadian folk punk band, released "Roll Northumbria," a song which details an alternate version of the Northumbria's short lifespan, in which the cracks...
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Rhiannon Giddens (redirect from Factory Girl (Rhiannon Giddens song))
eclectic folk music. She is a founding member of the country, blues, and old-time music band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, where she was the lead singer...
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of the song with the candidate's name changed became a 1959 hit when recorded and released by The Kingston Trio, an American folk singing group. The song...
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Statues (game) (section Winnie the Pooh)
attempt to advance on the Caller. The objective is to get close enough to the Caller to tag them. At any point while the Caller is turned away, they can...
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the caller, each week the caller will change and be randomly selected from the public. On Day 22, the housemates in the Bigg Boss House celebrated the festival...
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No Dice (redirect from Midnight Caller (Badfinger song))
somehow the song that stands out is 'Blodwyn,' a simulated (I think) English folk ditty about a swain and a spoon that has nothing to do with the Fab Four...
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Hoyt Axton (redirect from Della and the Dealer)
prominent in the early 1960s, establishing himself on the West Coast as a folk singer with an earthy style and powerful voice. Among his best-known songs are "Joy...
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Based on the traditional American folk song "Cotton-Eyed Joe", it blends the group's Eurodance style with traditional American instruments like the banjo...
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Barn dance (category European folk dances)
community-oriented events, usually for people who do not normally dance. The caller will, therefore, generally use easy dances so that everyone can join in...
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Traditional square dance (category American folk dances)
improvised by the caller. (In Southeastern style the caller chooses figures from a repertoire of a dozen or two and can call them in any order, but the order...
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Dudley Laufman (category Contra dance callers)
an American contra and barn dance caller and musician widely credited with helping spur the revival of contra in the 20th century. Laufman was born in...
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Ralph Page (category Contra dance callers)
Variations and Its Callers. Literary Licensing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-4940-3855-7. The Ralph Page Book of Contras. London: English Folk Dance and Song Society. 1969...
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John Mellencamp (category American expatriates in the United Kingdom)
his own songs. Two songs performed at the 2003 Town Hall concert, the 1962 Skeeter Davis hit "The End of the World" and the traditional folk song "House...
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Gordon, founder of the Archive of American Folk Song, and John and Alan Lomax; Alan Lomax was the most prominent of several folk song collectors who helped...
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Fiddler's Dram (redirect from To See the Play)
Fiddler's Dram were a British folk band of the late 1970s, most widely known for their 1979 hit single, "Day Trip to Bangor (Didn't We Have a Lovely Time)"...
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progressive-country tune "First Time Caller", stalled at No. 24. Her final album of the decade, Ain't Gonna Cry (1989), was not promoted by the label and did not chart...
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