Join us for our Square Dances!
- Thursday, 5/18/23 – 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
- Thursday, 6/22/23 – 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
- Thursday, 7/20/23 – 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
- Thursday, 8/17/23 – 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
These dances will take place in the Wilson Education Center at BRAHM (Blowing Rock Art and History Museum).
If you have never square danced before or are a little rusty there will be instruction from 6 pm – 6:30 pm. Then the dance will kick off at 6:30 and last until about 8 pm.
These events are Free for the public, and any donations will go directly to the band.
About Square Dance, from the Ballad of America Website: “Dancing was an important social activity throughout the rural South in the 19th century. Dances often took place in homes, with all of the furniture moved out of the largest room.
As Harden Taliaferro recalled of dances in Surry County, North Carolina in the 1820s, “As soon as night came, or the work was done, the fiddle sounded, and they danced and courted all night.” In the early 20th century, dances moved out of private homes into community spaces such as VFW halls, schoolhouses, and firehouses.
The 1930s saw the rise of the Western square dance. As country musicians moved away from the negative connotations of the mountain hillbilly image, the Western singing cowboy was born and popularized through movies and recordings. Though its roots were in the southern mountains, square dancing became associated with the West.”
