Ralph Sweet calls "The Auctioneer"

Recorded at the Greenfield, MA, Grange Hall on June 27, 2010. The event was sponsored by Country Dance and Song Society to celebrate the publication of "On the Beat with Ralph Sweet." This dance is one of Ralph's signature numbers, and directions and music are in his book, available from CDSS store: http://www.cdss.org/store-home.html

The musicians are the band Elixir (Ethan Hazzard-Watkins, fiddle; Jesse Hazzard-Watkins, trumpet; Anna Patton, clarinet; Owen Morrison, guitar; Nils Fredland, trombone), joined by Lee Blackwell, drums; Corey DiMario, bass; Ann Percival, piano, guitar, backup vocals

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Entertainment

Tags:

• square dance
• square dancing
• singing square
• Ralph Sweet
• Elixir
• Auctioneer

[holmegab]

That's Nils Friedland on trombone.

[BobFarnell]

Oh how refreshing this is, Everybody dancing what the caller directs and having fun. I remember those days 50 years ago in the uk and Germany! Ralph you're still the greatest!!