Foggy City Squares
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Started: 1981
Admitted to IAGSDC: no
Folded: mid 1980s
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:
1982 Pride Parade in San Francisco
Foggy City Squares performing at the 1982 Gay Games. Skip Barrett calling. Video by Steve Browning
Performance of Foggy City Squares with Skip Barrett calling at a 1983 Nov 11 concert of the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band Video by Steve Browning
San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band Concert - Final Bows. Video by Steve Browning
Skip Barrett left SF in 1983 and moved to Hawaii (temporarily). This was his last dance at the Trocadero. He sang 3 of his singing calls - "Gone to Gillies", "Cotton Eyed Joe", "Chicken in the Bread Pan". Barbary Coast Cloggers perform. Video by Steve Browning
Foggy City Exhibition team performing at Skip's last dance (1983). Followed by accolades for Skip Barrett.
