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TapRoot Square Dance with the Mapletones

March 30 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Light touches the f-hole of a violin or fiddle.
Photo by Ajay Suresh

Dewey Hall will present a TapRoot Square Dance with live music by the Mapletones, an acoustic duo with Max Rainwater on fiddle and Nicole Ball on guitar, and square dance caller SargentSeedoo.

The Mapletones’ music brings dynamic harmony vocals, driving fiddling, and percussive Appalachian flatfoot dancing. The band is influenced by and performs everything from traditional old time music, Texas style ragtime, early blues and country, and folk songs you might recall from long ago. The band is based in Kingston, New York (but has a camper van and will travel.

SargentSeedoo is a square dance caller and dance instructor from Kentucky who now lives in New York. He came into this work honestly, he says, and learned the craft from old-timers in Kentucky, West Virginia and North Carolina and young revivalists from all over the country.

He calls dances from the south and the appalachians, so he calls southern sets — 4 couple squares, 2 couple scatter squares, country partner line dances, running sets and big circle sets. As much as possible, he says, the calls will be gender neutral.

The hall doors will open at 6 p.m., lessons will begin at 7 and the band strikes up at 7:30.

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Event Details

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Date:
March 30
Time:
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
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Event Location

Dewey Hall
91 Main St.
Sheffield, MA
413-229-2357

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