Square Dance NOLA is a New Orleans collective of square dance callers and old-time string bands. Celebrating the folk traditions of Appalachian styled old-time squares, circles, and promenades, each dance features a fiddle-driven stringband and is hosted by a caller who leads a walk thru prior to each dance orienting to the figures and moves that will be called along with the music. Square Dance N
OLA's flagship dance is the second Monday of each month (excepting June & July) hosted at First Presbyterian Church of New Orleans at 5401 South Claiborne Street. A slower paced walk thru occurs at 7:30pm and the dance is 8-10pm. The event has a $5 door, sells red beans & rice (vegetarian/meat) for $2 a bowl, and is a BYOB event with ice chests and ice water provided in the fine hospitality of First Presbyterian Church. Another monthly dance is 10pm on the last Tuesday of each month Oct-May at The All Star Covered Dish Country Jamboree hosted at Mags on Elysian Fields. Square Dance NOLA hosts dances across the city in honky tonks, bars, backyards, levee tops, church houses and house parties, fundraisers and weddings, birthdays and in elementary schools. Square Dance NOLA has partnered with many fine string bands in New Orleans as well as hosted bands and callers from Mississipi, North Carolina, Breaux Bridge LA, LaFayette LA, Baton Rouge LA, and Denver, CO.
