I am stoked to see that the U.S. Embassy has put online a bunch of pictures from our Five Points Serenaders concerts at the Information Resource Center in Seoul, as well as two videos of selections from the two shows.

One is of the afternoon concert, with us playing "Streak o' Lean, Streak o' Fat," Fiddling Chuck fiddling a solo tune, and then "Grandma's Rag," and the second video has "Streak o' Lean, Streak o' Fat", a couple of solo pieces, plus one of the dances. The dance gives you a taste of what it was like to call a square dance with translated calls.

I am glad they included these selections. I figured "Streak o' Lean, Streak o' Fat," a great tune from one of my favorites, John Dilleshaw, known as Seven Foot Dilly-, would be an ideal tune for us to play in Korea given that it basically describes the national favorite sam gyeop sal--pork belly.

And the dance in the video, called "The Wild Goose Chase," I picked because the Korean fathers who stay in Korea but send their children to high school in the U.S. so they can learn American accented English are called "Wild Goose Dads." That was actually a relatively challenging dance for first time dancers (though by this time they had been dancing for about 90 minutes), and it went really well, everybody picked right up on it. Considering nobody had ever done a square, and probably virtually nobody had ever heard of square dancing before, they were really impressive. And everybody had fun, which is the key.

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