Featured Caller for 2025
Buddy Weaver
Buddy Weaver started calling in 1977 while still in school, living in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a third generation square dance caller who lives with his family in San Diego, California.
Buddy became an accredited member of CALLERLAB in 1981 and is currently on the Board of Governors. He is active in teaching other callers and has called/conducted seminars in the United States, Japan, and Europe.
Buddy has been active in the square dance recording industry since 1981, with over 300 vocals released. He has consolidated the major square dance labels of Blue Star, Hi Hat, and Rawhide Music into Buddy Weaver Music, copyright holder of the largest square dance music library in the world. BWM produces a weekly podcast dedicated to the perpetuation of square dancing, offering episodes for free listening (streaming) or download. Visit the BWM Podcast here.
Featured Cuers for 2025
Randy & Lorraine Pratt
Randy & Lorraine began square dancing in 2009 after moving to New Mexico. They started Round Dancing in 2015. Randy started cueing in 2016 and began teaching in 2017.
Randy & Lorraine helped start and continue to cue for the Hot Chile Steppers, Albuquerque’s only Square and Round dance club in 2016. They also cue for the Desert Dancers which dances at three different locations and varying times in Albuquerque, El Dorado Depot Dancers in El lDorado at Santa Fe and Four Corners Dancers in Cortez, Colorado.
Randy and Lorraine have taught some of their choreographed dances at USAWest Conventions and at the National Square Dance Convention.
They are in the process of placing beginner level cue teaches on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/@DesertDancersABQ
They have cues for Phase 3 Rumba and some Cha-Cha, Phase 2, Two Step and are currently working on adding Phase 1 & 2 waltz cues.
Randy & Lorraine cue and teach phases II through IV and have choreographed several dances. Randy has also choreographed a few dances with his daughter Abigail.
Randy & Lorraine are members of Roundalab and are the Presidents of the USAWest Policy Board.
Randy & Lorraine have been married for 36 years and have 4 grown children and 2 grandchildren. Randy retired from the US Air Force in 2008 and Lorraine has home schooled 4 children and 2 grandchildren.
Local Callers and Cuers
Pat & Wanda McBride
A native of Steamboat, CO, Pat started square dancing in the fall of 1972 at Colorado State University with the Aggie Haylofters club. To save money, the club encouraged interested members to learn how to call just enough to do a tip at their dances. Pat took the bait and has been calling ever since. Pat enjoyed a long career as a medical technologist. As a 50-year member of CALLERLAB and ROUNDALAB, Pat currently calls and cues for the Chatfield Country Kickers, the Greenridge Mountaineers and various other clubs and events around the state. He’s served for many years at local Council and State Association offices and is active with the History Alive Chautauqua every September.
Wanda started dancing in 1977 in Craig, CO and continued to dance through high school and college. She moved to Grand Junction in 1983, met and married Pat, and has served square dancing at the local and state level ever since. She is a Master Gardner and helps organize the Western Slope Cowboy Gathering every November. She is also an avid quilter and loves to sew.
On their farm in Grand Junction, Pat and Wanda famously raise purebred Fainting Goats along with horses and chickens.
Elaine O’Neill
Elaine O’Neill, a Colorado native who came to Montrose, CO in 2002. She started Square Dancing in 2018. Naaman Morehouse taught her to dance and became her mentor to kick off a new adventure in Calling in 2022. She attended Caller School with Jerry Junck in the summer of 2023. She is currently part of the calling team for the Black Canyon Twirlers and the Delta HubWheelers.
Ervin Wyatt
Ervin, the youngest of 7 siblings, started dancing in 1975 when his mom decided to get the whole family involved in something fun. Ervin kept on dancing and even danced with his now-wife Nancy before they knew each other. In 1993, When Ervin and Nancy got married at the Carriage Stop in Colorado Springs, the reception (of course!) featured a square dance.
As time went on, several callers asked Ervin if he’d ever thought about calling. He kept saying “no” until their club lost its caller in 2004. This time, it was Nancy who wondered if he’d thought of learning to call so he could teach new dancers. This time, Ervin said “yes”.
Ervin went to his first caller school in 2005 and taught his first class in 2006. In 2010, he started a small club in Gunnison, CO which lasted until 2019. He is now calling Mainstream (SSD) and Plus levels for the Black Canyon Twirlers of Montrose and the Delta Hub Wheelers, as well as guest tips. For Ervin, it’s all about seeing all those happy people enjoying themselves on the dance floor. Ervin is available to call for dance events or demos at the ABC, SSD, MS, & Plus levels. You may contact him at ewyatt@cosquaredancing.com.
Mike Lee
Mike is a third generation square dancer. He has been enjoying square dancing since the age of eight and is grateful to share his love of dancing with others.
Mike started calling in 2023 on the Western Slope of Colorado including regular Saturday dances with the Delta Hub Wheelers and Black Canyon Twirlers.
Mike also teaches square dancing at the local Senior Center and at his church in Montrose. Where he lives with his lovely wife Stacey.
