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Square dance caller, author Jim Vickers-Willis (16 July 1918 – 30 December 2008) was a popular Australian journalist and square dance caller in the 1950s. He was also an author of a best selling book and a campaigner for social change.
Let's Go Square Dancing is an Australian television series which aired in 1960 on ABC TV. The half-hour series featured square-dancing, with Jim Vickers-Willis as the caller. The series aired live. [1] It was produced in Melbourne, and kinescoped for broadcast in Sydney (and possibly other ABC stations). It is not known if any of these ...
Fenton G. "Jonesy" Jones (June 2, 1907 – June 30, 2003) was an American musician, best known as a square dance caller. He was widely described as a "nationally-known [dance] caller". [1] [2] Jones was born in 1907 in Los Angeles, California. [3] His mother, who died when Jones was seven years old, was a pianist and guitarist. [4]
Professional square dance caller Tony Oxendine is backed up by the music of the Ghost Riders at the 73rd National Square Dancing Convention on June 27 at the Baird Center in Milwaukee. The, which ...
Will Mentor calls a square dance at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina. 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 dancers, though in modern country dance this is rare.
A square dance is a dance for four couples, or eight dancers in total, arranged in a square, with one couple on each side, facing the middle of the square. Square dances are part of a broad spectrum of dances known by various names: country dances, traditional dances, folk dances, barn dances, ceilidh dances, contra dances, Playford dances, etc.
As it turned out, 28 states had made square dancing the state dance as a part of a larger push in the late 1960’s to make folk dancing the national dance.
Willis had four brothers named Albert, Ronnie, Bertie, and Kenneth. Willis married Cilla Black on 25 January 1969, his 27th birthday, at Marylebone Town Hall. [2] To please her Catholic family, the couple were granted a dispensation to have their marriage blessed on 6 March 1969 at St Mary's Church in Liverpool's Woolton suburb.