This 55minute compilation shows parts of the New England Folk Festival I videotaped in 1991. It's one in a series of videos I'm editing from that footage. All of my NEFFA '91 videos can be found at this YouTube playlist: https://bit.ly/NEFFA91

Start Cajun hallway jam & dancers
1:46 Nordic couples dance
2:52 3 hallway jams
4:54 Balkan music workshop
5:59 English country dancing with Jacqueline Schwab & Earl Gaddis
7:07 "Crow Black Chicken" hallway jam
8:20 Ginny Ely, Shapenote singing workshop
9:52 Morris dance
11:36 Jocelyn Reynolds interview
14:46 "Roddy McCorley" Bob McQuillen & friends
17:01 Vendors
17:59 Stephen Brown (Bones) interview
19:10 "Spootiskerry" Lucille Reilly & friends
20:58 Billie Hocket interview
21:28 "Swallowtail Jig/The Cowboy Jig" contradance Rum & Onions
24:50 Ryan Thomson ("Captain Fiddle") interview
26:21 Magic Piano
29:11 Bill & Sue Rose Cajun dance instruction
30:59 "Red Bandana" The Boogaloo Swamis
33:32 Bob McQuillen contradance piano workshop
35:08 "Golden Slippers" hallway jam
37:01 Folk Arts Center of New England vendor
38:00 "Schenectady" 192 Sacred harp sing led by Pat McMahon
39:01 "Chevrolet" Kim Wallach & Larry Unger
44:09 "The Ballad of Erica Levine" Kim Wallach
48:44 Ryan Thomson ("Captain Fiddle") interview
50:17 "Lady Be Good" swing dance
52:40 "The Cowboy Jig" [cont.] Rum & Onions


New England Folk Festival Association https://www.neffa.org/

INCLUDED PERFORMERS' WEBSITES (in order of appearance):

Jacqueline Schwab https://www.jacquelineschwab.com

Stephen Brown https://rhythmbones.com/playerprofil...

Lucille Reilly https://thedulcimerlady.com/meetluci...

Rum & Onions https://www.princetoncountrydancers.o...

Ryan Thomson https://captainfiddle.com

Folk Arts Center of New England https://www.facone.org/

Norumbega Harmony http://www.NorumbegaHarmony.org

Kim Wallach https://kimwallach.com

Larry Unger https://www.larryunger.net

WIKIPEDIA:
"The New England Folk Festival (NEFFA), founded in 1944, is an annual participatory weekend festival of traditional dance and music. It takes place in the Boston, Massachusetts region each spring. It is run by volunteers and all the performers are volunteers as well... As a social dance festival, it is a community experience, the largest in New England of its kind, with about 5,000 combined admissions in the festival's four session periods.

"Participatory dancing occurs simultaneously in three halls, most prominently contra dance, international folk dance, and English country dance, in addition to other genres of dance. A variety of concerts, discussions and other more intimate performances take place in numerous class room spaces. Familyoriented events occur during daylight hours on Saturday and Sunday. A courtyard outside is devoted to Morris dancing, Rapper Sword and Longsworddancing. Sunday afternoons typically schedule dance and music demonstrations of a variety of ethnic dances, by local and distant dance groups, in the main hall. The hundreds of volunteer musicians, singers, dance callers, leaders and dancedemonstration performers are primarily from New England and every year a number arrive from more distant parts of North America." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Eng...

Video produced by Rob McCausland
Equipment provided by Boston Neighborhood Network https://bnnmedia.org/