Traditional New England Barn Dances

Dudley Laufman & Jacqueline Laufman

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Books - Broadsides - Notecards

Mouth Music: Poems & Prose Poems

I Was A Fiddler Before I Came Here

How Contra Dancing Was Invented

Shaker Ghosts   Tree   Skating The Shaker Ponds

Published by the Wind in the Timothy Press, Two Fiddles Productions

 

 

February 26, 2009

 

A comprehensive book of 53 traditional dances

with calls by Dudley Laufman

Includes two CDs and a DVD demonstrating some of the dances

 

$59.00

 ISBN 978-0-7360-7612-8

Order from Human Kinetics, PO Box 5076, Champaign, IL 60825-5076

Tel: 217-351-5076  Fax: 217-351-2674

 www.humankinetics.com/products/showproduct.cfm?isbn=9780736076128

CONTENTS

Chapter 1. History of Traditional Barn Dance
Chapter 2. Setting Up and Calling the Dances
Chapter 3. Music and the Fiddle
Chapter 4. Tips for Teachers
Chapter 5. Circle Dances
Chapter 6. Longways Dances
Chapter 7. Square Dances
Chapter 8. Dances in Other Formations
Chapter 9. Contra Dances
Chapter 10. Dances for Folks With Varying Abilities
Chapter 11. How to Run a Community Barn Dance

 

 

A heartwarming narrative poem 

about the early Shaker Brother Peter Ayers 

who knew Mother Ann Lee

The Stone Man

by Dudley Laufman

Illustrated by Jacqueline Laufman

more

 

 

 

 

 

Available April 2007 from Beech River Books

To order books: 1-888-874-6904

 

 

Published by the Wind in the Timothy Press, Two Fiddles Productions


Mouth Music: Poems & Prose Poems

by Dudley Laufman

Contents

Whistling hornpipes 

First Change 

A Dudley Dance 

Lady Of The Lake 

Supposing you were 

The Paul Jones 

My fiddle 

After the square dance 

On the way home 

Sunday one more time 

‘erman 

Haiku’s Of Music & Dance 

The Sweets Of May 

Eggnog 

Dancing In County Clare 

Some Dancing Masters 

Balloons At A Wedding 

Wood 

My canoe 

The Magic Pochette 

On The Gaspé 

Mouth Music 

Sinkholes 

The Plumber 

Gimme Some Reels 

I Hope This Is A Real Contra Dance 

The Valley Galopede 

There was an old gent 

Setting Out For The Nightly Revels 

Five Fingers Of The Hand 

Alan 

Alan’s Memorial 

The One Eyed Singer 

Piano Quartet 

Hunting The Fox 

Two Fiddles 

Sonnet For Jacqueline 

$15.00 ea  order form

Published by the Wind in the Timothy Press, Two Fiddles Productions


I Was A Fiddler Before I Came Here

Dudley Laufman

A narrative poem: the story of Arthur Hanson

whose fiddle and gold watch Dudley now has.

$5.00 ea  order form

Published by the Wind in the Timothy Press, Two Fiddles Productions


 

How Contra Dancing Was Invented

 

Poems by Dudley Laufman

 

$10.00 ea  order form

Published by the Wind in the Timothy Press, Two Fiddles Productions


 

Shaker Ghosts

        Broadside: Sonnet by Dudley Laufman with wood engraving by Randy Miller, matted 9 x 14.

$ 25.00 ea order form

Published by the Wind in the Timothy Press, Two Fiddles Productions


Tree

Broadside: A Folk Poem by Jacqueline and Dudley Laufman 8.5 x 11

$ 6.00 ea order form

Published by the Wind in the Timothy Press, Two Fiddles Productions


Skating the Shaker Ponds

Broadside by Dudley Laufman 8.5 x 11

$ 5.00 ea order form

Published by the Wind in the Timothy Press, Two Fiddles Productions

 

To order: call, write or email us:

 

TWO FIDDLES

Jacqueline & Dudley Laufman

PO Box 61, Canterbury, NH, USA 03224

Tel: 603-783-4719   Fax: 603-783-9578 

 

New email as of January 2007: 

jdlaufman (at) comcast (dot) net

(Put the @ symbol in above address instead of the word (at) with no spaces and a . between comcast and net to deter spam.)

 

Last updated: 08/16/2009

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