Chicago Barn Dance 100th Anniversary events

Update: If you missed the live radio broadcast, you can listen to it online here:  https://www.wfmt.com/programs/folkstage under the "List to Recent Episodes" heading.

Update: WLS Barn Dance Centennial Recorded Live at The Hideout will be broadcast on WFMT radio FM 98.7 on Sat May 11, 2024 at 8:00pm  https://www.wfmt.com/2024/05/11/wls-barn-dance-centennial-recorded-live-at-the-hideout/

Update: Here's youtube clips of the Apr 15 WGN Spotlight Chicago segments with Paul and some other dancers you might recognize:

Paul Collins' weekly email for the Virtual Dance Room included the following special events celebrating 100 years of country music in Chicago and the 100th anniversary of premier of the Barn Dance radio program:

• Apr 15 (Mon) - 3:00pm - to 4:00pm CDT
• "Spotlight Chicago" WGN-TV celebrates 100 years of country music in Chicago
• The theme of this "Spotlight Chicago" show is timed to coincide with 
• The centennial of the broadcast of the first episode of the WLS Barn National Dance   
• The WLS Barn Dance re-creation shows sponsored by the Chicago History Museum to be held at The Hideout in Chicago on Saturday afternoon and evening April 20
• The release of Mark Guarino's book "Country and Midwestern" which tells the story of Chicago's role in county music - who points out that without Chicago and the National Barn Dance, there might not have been a Nashville or Grand Ole Opry today.
• A group of Chicago Area Folk Dancers and Traditional Square Dancers will demonstrate a dance as part of this program
• https://wgntv.com/spotlight-chicago/

• Apr 20 (Sat) - 5:00pm & 7:45pm CDT
• A re-creation celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 1st broadcast of the WLS National Barn Dance produced by the Chicago History Museum and WFMT-FM-98.7
• At the Hideout, 1354 West Wabansia Ave, Chicago, IL 60642, 773.227.4433 - Tickets: https://hideoutchicago.com/
• Two performances recorded for broadcast in May by WFMT
• 5:30pm - First Performance
• 7:00pm - Audience participation Square Dancing called by Paul Collins
• 8:30pm - Second Performance

PBS "Bare Feet" Dance Series

Here are a couple of links to the PBS "Bare Feet" series that Susan mentioned in the Chat during tonight's Zoom session:
https://www.travelbarefeet.com/
https://www.pbs.org/show/bare-feet-mickela-mallozzi/
Looks like it's airing in the Chicago area on WTTW-Create on Tuesdays.


And speaking of PBS dance-related series, for a blast from the past, this recent article:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/quarantine-hobbies-from-television
 Points to this 1979 WGBH "Dancing Disco" series:
http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_0DE922677C3C419180DCE82FF98C9C42

ABC7 TV: Two-step around the Xmas Tree Line Dance

Received this link in e-mail from Dance With Janet:

Nancy Hays & The Heffernans bring line dancing party to ABC7

Familiar music at the folk ball

For those of you of a certain age (the age where you would have been watching children's TV in the '60s and '70s), who grew up around Chicago, if you were at the Saturday night Folk Ball party in Madison, and you thought the first song that the little girls in Russian costumes danced to sounded familiar, here's why:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Door
https://youtu.be/oE9GGqR3yaM


UPDATE: more info about the song: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Ram_Sam_Sam

Hava Nagila: The Movie on WTTW Create Sun Oct 2 8pm

http://www.havanagilamovie.com/

Hava Nagila (The Movie)
369WTTWC 8:00 - 9:00p

Johnny Yune, Josh Kun, Connie Francis
(2012) A detailed look at the history of the Jewish song "Hava Nagila," which is routinely played at celebrations such as weddings and bar mitzvahs. This documentary also includes interviews with celebrities and musicians.

http://www.pbs.org/program/hava-nagila/

Looks like it repeats at midnight

WYCC TV + Old Town School "Musicology" TV series

http://www.wycc.org/programs/musicology/

Premieres April 19, 2013, Channel 20, Chicago broadcast TV (also Channel 20 on Comcast).

WTTW 11 Chicago, 8pm tonight: National Barn Dance

http://schedule.wttw.com/series/18474/Hayloft-Gang-The-Story-of-the-National-Barn-Dance/#.UBqOlaDE2Vg

Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance
Garrison Keillor narrates this history of the "National Barn Dance," a popular country-music radio show in the 1930s and '40
08/02/2012 at 8:00 pm on WTTW HD (Channel 11 Chicago)