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Gypsy Gyppo String Band

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Genres
  
Old-time music

Genre
  
Old-time music

Years active
  
1970s

Origin
  
Seattle, Washington, United States

The Gypsy Gyppo String Band was an American an old-time music band, based in Seattle, Washington.

Active in the 1970s, it brought a contemporary sensibility to this music, treating it "as source material rather than holy writ." The band played a key role in reviving this music, bringing it out to the dying milieu of Grange halls and the somewhat-staid milieu of organized Modern Western square dance to a hip, young urban audience. It laid the foundation of a square dance and contra dance scene in and around Seattle that continues to this day.

References

Gypsy Gyppo String Band Wikipedia