[RELATED: 5 Songs You Didn’t Know Featured Johnny Cash] “Promenade” As you can hear here below, this song from the Square Dance With Calls LP features fiddle music and the caller.

If you’re in need of some entertainment for the occasion, read on. Valentine’s Night Barn Dance Jubilee: “Square dancing at iO” sounds like a pretty good audience suggestion for an improv bit.

Origins The origins of “Skip to My Lou” and its meaning go all the way back to the 1840s. It’s what’s known in square dancing circles as a “partner-stealing” song and dance.

But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Square dancing can be traced to 15 th -century Europe, influenced by dance moves from England, France, Scotland, Scandinavia and Spain.

Lyrics to one of the square dance songs called "Oh Johnny Oh:' "Will you all join hands and you circle the ring, and you stop where you are, give your honey a swing, then you swing that little gal ...

Singing call: A single call where the caller will mix square dance directions with singing. Belles rotate between beaus in the square during the song, usually in a counter-clockwise direction.

Gone are the days of boy-girl matches, prairie skirts and honky-tonk songs. In Laguna Woods, these square dancers move to Jimmy Buffet and salsa-inspired instrumentals.

The Clarksville couple started square dancing in the late 1960s. “I didn’t even know what square dancing was, [but] we did it and loved it,” Lynne Powers said. “It’s a good group of people.

Square dancing involves constant movement along with quick directional changes that work together to keep the body in shape and in balance. It is also excellent mental exercise as the dancer ...