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The 2011 Weekend Staff:

  1. Weekend Callers:

  2. ‣Lynn Ackerson & Tod Whittemore

  3. Sat. & Sun. Music

  4. ‣Randy Miller, Peter Siegel & Bob McQuillen

  5. ‣Firetruck ~

  6. Ethan Hazard-Watkins, Anna Patton & Bruce Rosen

  7. Friday Night:

  8. ‣Calling: Dudley Laufman & Staff Callers

  9. ‣Music: Sugar River Band: The Orzechowski  Family ~ Jane, Russell, Sophie & Neil

  10. Retrospective dance session:

  11. ‣The Ralph Page Legacy. If it weren’t for Ralph Page we might not be dancing!

  12. BulletFor the many dancers who know little about him, a chance to learn why he is still important enough to have his own Weekend.

  13. BulletFor those who remember him, a chance to exchange stories and pass them on to the rest.



  1. The New England Folk Festival Association in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities at the University of New Hampshire invites you to join us to celebrate our New England music and dance traditions. This weekend is named in honor of Ralph Page, who was pivotal in sustaining and reviving traditional contra and square dancing in New England.


Ralph Page Legacy Weekend Videos
on the Web

The Ralph Page Weekend was featured on Channel 9’s New Hampshire Chronicle. See the sidebar on the right for details and links to videos on the Channel 9 web site.

  1. ‣Go to the sidebar on the right for details on what’s available, and for links to the videos available for viewing.




The Ralph Page Dance Legacy Weekend is held annually in Durham, NH at the University of New Hampshire in January on the weekend that ends with Martin Luther King Day. Look below for links to all the information you might want to know about the Weekend.



Forms, Admission Fees & Contact Information.

This will be added when it becomes available, probably in the summer.

Please go to the 2010 Archive Page to view last year’s information for reference purposes.

Additional Information: About the Staff, Weekend Photos, Stories, Articles, etc. - Learn More About the Weekend!

Staff Information. This page has additional information about the weekend bands and callers. (Still last year)

Photos & Archival Information about Previous Weekends. The best way to see what it’s all about - or to see your friends!

  1. ‣Just added: The 2008 photo page is now online; the 2009 page should follow soon.

  2. Photo Pages: 2003-2006 | Tod Whittemore in 2006 | 2007 | 2008
    Yearly Archives: 2007 | 2008 | 2009

Supplementary Articles & Stories about the Weekend: Index Page. These come from various sources: the Seacoast Country Dance Newsletter, various people who have had scholarships, others who have written things up for CDSS, DEFFA and other sources, etc.

Some Important External Links. These are some other pages with important information.

Directions to UNH. Link to a UNH web page with directions to UNH from various locations.

NEFFA. The New England Folk Festival Association sponsors the weekend; the RPDLW is a part of NEFFA. NEFFA is also a great festival every April.

New Hampshire Library of Traditional Music & Dance. Home of the Ralph Page collection, CDSS collection, Ted Sannella collection, material from many other sources

 

Publicity Flyer,

Contact Information &

Other Information

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2011 Publicity Flyer. Click on the link to download the Publicity Flyer in PDF format. Side 1 only, Ralph Page Dance Legacy Weekend flyer. Feel free to copy it and put it out at your local dance! In PDF format, 8.5x11" paper.

Contact Information. Click on the link to go to a page with Weekend contact information. (4/2011: It may not be entirely up to date; I’ll correct it as soon as I have more information.

Other information: Look below,  center; information will be added as it becomes available.

Supported in part by a grant from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Ralph Page Memorial Committee would like to thank the State Council on the Arts for its generous support during a time when money is scarce; and also the Monadnock Folklore Society for its help in obtaining that funding, and the National Endowment for the Arts, without which it is unlikely the funding would have been available in the first place.


~ About the photos ~

Very Top: Right and left over ... It was great to have Tod Whittemore at the Weekend in 2006. He had a great time too; he even got to dance!

Above: Of course Bob McQuillen is always there — and we’re glad he is!
Photos by Patrick Stevens.

 

Publicity Flyer,

Contact Information &

Other Information

________________


2011 Publicity Flyer. Click on the link to download the Publicity Flyer in PDF format. Side 1 only, Ralph Page Dance Legacy Weekend flyer. Feel free to copy it and put it out at your local dance! In PDF format, 8.5x11" paper.

Contact Information. Click on the link to go to a page with Weekend contact information. (4/2011: It may not be entirely up to date; I’ll correct it as soon as I have more information.

Other information: Look below,  center; information will be added as it becomes available.

Ralph Page Dance Legacy Weekend Videos
on the Internet

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From NH Chronicle, Channel 9, Mon. Feb. 15, 7:30 PM!

The Ralph Page Weekend was featured on NH Chronicle, Channel 9, Mon. Feb. 15, 7:30 PM. Most or all of it has been archived and can be viewed on  WMUR (Channel 9) and  on YouTube.

Click on the following links:

Part I (7:11). This is on the WMUR web site, and has a mixture of interviews, music, dance, etc.

Part 2 (5:20). Also on WMUR, this portion features the Ralph Page collection at Special Collections at the UNH Library, as well as some dancing and interviews.

Part 3 (3:48). From David Millstone’s YouTube page, this segment is Tony Parkes calling Fiddleheads (a Ted Sannella dance) with the Lizards playing.

UNH Library Wildcarts (6:18). I noticed this on YouTube and figured a link would be in order! Chrissy calling with the infamous Wildcarts dancing!

Here’s some of the original description:

Look for the Ralph Page Weekend on New Hampshire Chronicle. You may have seen them filming; now we’ll be on Channel 9. Here’s what it says on the web site:

  1. “Dance socials are a great way to meet friends, old and new. They are a form of community gathering that's as old as our nation. In fact contra dances still take place in every state in the country.

  2. “In a special NH Chronicle, Jennifer Crompton shows us how thanks to some incredible individuals, and a vast UNH collection, the Granite State is considered by many to be Contra dancing's spiritual and historical home.”

For more information, go to:

http://www.wmur.com/chronicle/22533404/detail.html