Additional Resources
Artist's Official Website: http://www.footnotesdance.com/
Millennium Stage Home Page
Part of the Performing Arts for Everyone Initiative
FOOT-NOTES
About the Artist
Foot-Notes formed in 1991 in large part to carry on a tradition of monthly old time dances in a rustic two-room schoolhouse in Highlandville, Iowa, where area residents have been gathering for years. The old time music they play reflects their ties to Norwegian-American communities, including Decorah, where they now live. Most of their repertoire consists of dance tunes that were popular at house parties, barn dances, and "bowery" dances in northeast Iowa around the turn of the century and into the first few decades of the 1900s. The band has also incorporated a number of especially danceable tunes from a variety of other traditions-- including Swedish, Finnish, Faroese, Russian, Irish, and American folk.
Foot-Notes is:
Beth Hoven Rotto, fiddle
Jim Skurdal, mandolin & lead vocal
Jon Rotto, guitar & vocal
Bill Musser, acoustic bass & vocal
Past Performances
September 2, 2008
The Iowan ensemble performs Scandinavian and Scandinavian American oldtime dance music, originating from popular turn-of-the-century dance tunes at barn dances, house parties, and “bowery” dances. Part of Masters of Tradition.
