About Claxton Country Squares

The Claxton Country Squares Square Dance Club, in Claxton, Tennessee, is part of Area 5 of the Council of East Tennessee Square & Round Dance Clubs. This gives us outreach to Clinton, Oak Ridge, Knoxville, and all of the surrounding areas. In 1986, the club was founded and organized under the direction of Bob and Elena Tonkin. Bob continued as the club caller for many years. We dance both main stream and plus calls, and we welcome all dancers to join us for fun and fellowship on the first and fourth Saturdays of each month at 7:00 p.m. at the Claxton Community Center on Edgemoor Road near the Bull Run Steam Plant. Our regular club caller is Mike Hoose. Mike calls on the first club dance of the month. We usually have a guest caller on the fourth Saturday of the month.

For more information about the club, call the president, Ror Smith rsmith599@yahoo.com

Mike Hoose - Club caller

Mike Hoose has been calling and teaching square dancing since 1976. As a caller he has performed in most of the 50 states and several Canadian Provinces. He has called at sixteen National Square Dance Conventions and has been on the staff of several major festivals.

Mike records on Red Boot Records - an internationally well known square dance label, and for 25 years sang tenor and lead for the world-famous Red Boot Boys
caller’s quartet. He was a featured caller in the 1982 World’s Fair.

Mike teaches square dance classes in Knoxville and Claxton,
Tennessee; as well as calling dances and events all over the
southeast.

Mike and his lovely wife Glenda live in Knoxville, Tennessee.