Fairground Frolic - new dance

B. G. Charlton

Message 17614 · 11 Jun 1999 03:25:18 · Fixed-width font · Whole thread

G'Day all,

John Bray wrote:

>I think that "The Banana-Benders" would be a great
name for a dance.<

Too late, John, it's already been done.

At the Australian Winter School in Sydney in 1995, Bill Zobel was teachin=
g
a dance with interlocking reels of four, which were referred to as 'banan=
a
reels'. There were some Queenslanders in the class who told him that they=

were 'banana-benders', so he wrote a dance called 'The Banana-benders',
including banana reels and Muriel Johnstone wrote a tune for it.

As far as I know, it has only been published in the Winter School Daily
news sheet in 1995, but if you want a copy, I could send it to you.

Brian Charlton,
Sydney.