barn dance
noun
: an American social dance originally held in a barn and featuring several dance forms (such as square dancing)
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The place is spacious, and perfectly outfitted for groups large and small: One imagines a barn dance here overlooking the vineyards, beyond the enormous oaks that frame the barn.
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Laura Ness, Mercury News, 28 Sep. 2025
The music was written after filming, so the sound was based, at least partially, on Hathaway’s solo barn dance.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 7 July 2025
The April 17 episode picked up with Farmers John Sansone, Jay Woods, Matt Warren and Colton Hendricks enjoying their time in Nashville at a barn dance with their ladies.
—Dory Jackson, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
The November 18, 1934, Tennessean documented the Opry’s evolution from a barn dance of the airwaves and imagination—where a few lucky fans could crowd into a radio studio each week—to a stage show where musicians’ costumes reflected the hillbilly image the show cultivated from the beginning.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2025
Later that day, Ellie gets ready for the barn dance by using her pocket knife — sanitized with alcohol first, thankfully — to slice up the bite on her stomach.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Founded back in 1975, the longstanding not-for-profit organization has continued to build relationships and an appreciation of music through regular sing-arounds, barn dances and its annual Folk Music and Storytelling Festival.
—David Sharos, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
In short, the 2024 Convention was a formidable exercise in party discipline: a calculated blend of lockstep and barn dance, such as the Democrats, right now, can only dream of.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
The Grand Ole Opry House at 50 March 16 marks a half-century for the 99-year-old Grand Ole Opry program on 2804 Opryland Drive, its sixth home since the show was initially broadcast as a barn dance in 1925.
—David Farré, The Tennessean, 9 Mar. 2024
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Laura Ness, Mercury News, 28 Sep. 2025
The music was written after filming, so the sound was based, at least partially, on Hathaway’s solo barn dance.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 7 July 2025
The April 17 episode picked up with Farmers John Sansone, Jay Woods, Matt Warren and Colton Hendricks enjoying their time in Nashville at a barn dance with their ladies.
—Dory Jackson, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
The November 18, 1934, Tennessean documented the Opry’s evolution from a barn dance of the airwaves and imagination—where a few lucky fans could crowd into a radio studio each week—to a stage show where musicians’ costumes reflected the hillbilly image the show cultivated from the beginning.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2025
Later that day, Ellie gets ready for the barn dance by using her pocket knife — sanitized with alcohol first, thankfully — to slice up the bite on her stomach.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Founded back in 1975, the longstanding not-for-profit organization has continued to build relationships and an appreciation of music through regular sing-arounds, barn dances and its annual Folk Music and Storytelling Festival.
—David Sharos, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
In short, the 2024 Convention was a formidable exercise in party discipline: a calculated blend of lockstep and barn dance, such as the Democrats, right now, can only dream of.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
The Grand Ole Opry House at 50 March 16 marks a half-century for the 99-year-old Grand Ole Opry program on 2804 Opryland Drive, its sixth home since the show was initially broadcast as a barn dance in 1925.
—David Farré, The Tennessean, 9 Mar. 2024
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“Barn dance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barn%20dance. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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