Foggy City Squares
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Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Started: 1977
Admitted to IAGSDC:no
Folded: mid 80s
History:
- Foggy City Squares was Skip Barrett's original gay square dance group in San Francisco.
- They participated in Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day Parade & Celebration, June 28, 1981 in San Francisco.
- They were represented at the 1982 Reno rodeo where the idea for the National Gay/Lesbian Square Dance Association was born.
- Its dissolution lead to the formation of Foggy City Dancers and the Foggy City Performance Team as well as the short-lived Bay City Ramblers.
- See Ten Years IAGSDC: A Collection of Pages From Our Memory Book for more history.
Classes:
Club Caller[s]: Skip Barrett
Levels: non-Callerlab format; singing calls only
Dance Location[s]: Trocadero Transfer, 520 4th Street at Bryant in the SoMa neighborhood, San Francisco. [1]
Fly-Ins Hosted: none
Conventions Hosted: none
Videos:
Performance of Foggy City Squares with Skip Barrett calling at a 1983 Nov 11 concert of the San Franicso Lesbina/Gay Freedom Band
