Biography
Foot-Notes formed in 1991 in large part to carry on a tradition of monthly old-time dances in a rustic two-room schoolhouse in Highlandville, Iowa, where area residents have been gathering for years. The old time music they play reflects their ties to Norwegian-American communities, including Decorah, where they live. Most of their repertoire consists of dance tunes that were popular at house parties, barn dances, and "bowery" dances in northeast Iowa around the turn of the century and into the first few decades of the 1900s. They have also incorporated a number of especially danceable tunes into their repertoire from a variety of other traditions – including Swedish, Finnish, Faroese, Russian, Irish, and American folk – some of which are group/mixer dances.
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