Tony Parkes (caller)
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November 10, 1949[2]
Tony Parkes | |
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| Born | Anthony Philip Parkes[1] November 10, 1949[2] New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | May 6, 2024 (aged 74) Billerica, Massachusetts |
| Genres | American folk music |
| Occupations | Folk dance caller and writer, musician |
| Instrument | Piano |
| Years active | 1964–2024 |
Tony Parkes (November 10, 1949 – May 6, 2024) was an American professional square dance, contra dance and folk dance caller and choreographer who was active in the region surrounding Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States.[3]
He wrote the book Contra Dance Calling – A Basic Text in 1992 and updated it in 2010.[4]
Parkes was born in 1949 in New York City,[2] and grew up in Greenwich Village, Manhattan.[1] His father, Philip Parkes,[1] was a department store advertising executive, working for Lord & Taylor in New York and later for Emporium-Capwell in San Francisco.[2] His mother, Katherine Parkes,[1] was a law librarian who worked for the Institute of Judicial Administration at the New York University School of Law,[5] and later for the Alameda County Law Library in the San Francisco Bay Area.[6]