Enjoy the full lyrics of Skip to My Lou, a joyful 19th-century folk tune, plus origins, meaning, and songs with the same ...

The Midwest Folk Dance Association held its June Camp Folk Dance Weekend, June 12 – 15, at Lake Forest Academy. Camp director ...

Swing your partner and dosey-do. September is National Square Dance Month. Like the culture it came from, square dance has roots in European, Native American and African practices. Square dancing ...

pushed to have Congress declare square dance as the national American folk dance. The effort flopped, twice, amid protests that Washington had no business putting one form of heritage above another.

It was learned from the Cree Indians in about 1920. The dance similarly resembles a White American folk dance or "square dance." The steps in the dance are in accordance with a "calling" by one of the ...

I joined them to watch a performance of the center’s Kivajat Finnish American Folk Dance Group to kick things off before everyone stepped onto the dancefloor themselves. The event is the dance ...