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database updated: 2025-04-30

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Author contains 'Jacob Bloom'

Of 16034 dances in the db, your query matches 33.

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Come Into My Arms Jacob Bloom Duple Minor - Improper
The Dance Gypsy Jacob Bloom Duple Minor - Improper
Dance Gypsy {Give-and-Take version} Jacob Bloom Duple Minor - Improper
The Double Rainbow Jacob Bloom Duple Minor - Improper
Eat, Dance, and Be Married Jacob Bloom Duple Minor - Improper
Family Petronella Jacob Bloom Sicilian Circle
Friends and Flowers Jacob Bloom Duple Minor - Improper
Grand Square Contra Jacob Bloom Four Facing Four
House Dance Special Jacob Bloom Duple Minor - Improper
House Dance Special {variant 1+2} Jacob Bloom Duple Minor - Improper
House Dance Special {variant 1} Jacob Bloom Duple Minor - Improper
House Dance Special {variant 2} Jacob Bloom Duple Minor - Improper
Housewarming Jacob Bloom Triplet
Ingrid's Lament Jacob Bloom Duple Minor - Improper
Jacob's Polka Contra Jacob Bloom Duple Minor - Improper
Jacob's Potato Jacob Bloom Longways for N couples
The Joys of Parenthood Jacob Bloom Three Facing Three
Lovely Nancy Jacob Bloom Singlet
Luck of the Morris Jacob Bloom Non-longways for 3 couples
Luck of the Morris {Larry Jennings version} (deprecated) Jacob Bloom Triplet
Nancy's Fancy Jacob Bloom Four Facing Four
Oh Contraire Jacob Bloom Longways for N couples
Open Rehearsal Jacob Bloom Duple Minor - Improper
Piss Upon The Grass Jacob Bloom Solo
Round and Around Jacob Bloom Sicilian Circle
Shira's Seven Jacob Bloom Set dance for 3 couples + 1
Sound the Trumpets Jacob Bloom Duple Minor - Improper
Stars in the Triangle Jacob Bloom Set dance for 9 people
Untitled Threesome Jacob Bloom Three Facing Three
The Waterloo Dance Jacob Bloom Solo
Welcoming Matthew Jacob Bloom Circle of Threesomes
You Married My Daughter Jacob Bloom Duple Minor - Improper
Zanzibar Jacob Bloom Duple Minor - Improper

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