Painter’s Polka barndance

This is one we used to play, though this transcription is from the band “Yankee Ingenuity”. One of the dances we often used this to accompany, a couple dance, was known as “The Seattle Polka”. There’s a strong Scandinavian influence in the Pacific Northwest and I’ve been told this is via that, I’m thinking Swedish, but I haven’t been able to find a source to confirm that yet, hoping someone else may know? Please offer another take on this. I think we also played it with two parts but I can’t find a notation for that second part, not yet anyway. At the time we were also playing a lot of Scandinavian music, for dance, along with also playing music for contras, old time squares, earlier country dances, as well as a variety of Celtic root music ~ Irish, Scottish, Breton, and French and German as well, enjoying the twist of zweifachers… This melody was a lot of fun to play, and to dance to too…

A few other possibilities with this one…

This has more of a Swedish schottische feel to it, as too the dance mentioned, “The Seattle Polka”. You can find a description of the dance in the comments here:

“Björn’s Polka”
# Added by ceolachan - November 16th, 2004
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