Phil Jamison

Phil Jamison is nationally known as a dance caller, old-time musician, and flatfoot dancer. He has called dances, performed, and taught at music festivals and dance events throughout the United States and overseas since the early 1970s, including over thirty years as a member of the Green Grass Cloggers. His flatfoot dancing was featured in the film Songcatcher, for which he also served as Traditional Dance consultant. From 1982 through 2004, he toured and played guitar with Ralph Blizard and the New Southern Ramblers, and he also plays fiddle and banjo. In 2004, he cofounded Dare To Be Square!, a weekend workshop for square dance callers. Jamison teaches mathematics and Appalachian music at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina, where he coordinates the Old-Time Music and Dance Week at the Swannanoa Gathering, and he writes at www.philjamison.com.