Description: Chris Kermiet, traditional dance caller - squares, contras, ceilis, hoedowns, English country dances. For weddings, Bar-B-Qs, conventions, parties, balls, bar mitzvahs, barn dances, etc.
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I’ve been dancing since I could walk. My father, Paul Kermiet, was a square dance caller. Some of my earliest memories are of dancing to his calling at the old Grange Hall on Lookout Mountain (outside of Golden, Colorado), where we lived.
During the years I was growing up, my father ran a summer dance camp there called the Lighted Lantern , where dancers from around the country would come to have a dance vacation. The Lighted Lantern always featured some of the best callers and teachers, all of whom I learned from — mostly by osmosis, since I never intended to become a square dance caller.
I wanted to be a jazz musician. And did. I was also interested in composing and arranging, and studied at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. But this belongs on another web page.