barn dance

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Another fundraising event, a Dance for Meg barn dance, will be held in her home town of Nuneaton, Warwickshire, on 12 August - on what would have been Ms Newborough's 26th birthday.

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2023

Despite acquitting herself well on numbers such as “Wonderful, Wonderful Day,” her performance was largely overshadowed by a richly acrobatic barn dance sequence.

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2021

It devastated a back-to-the-land community established in the early 1970s that with its annual barn dance and its vegetable patches fed by spring water seemed to hark back to an earlier era.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2020

We had met at a barn dance at my army camp in County Durham while we were still kids, and we’d lived all over together, before settling back with our two children in Britain.

From The Guardian • Nov. 3, 2019

One other thing happened at that barn dance that made a great impression on Johnny.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes