MUSIC – Stave Falls Dancing Group

A photograph taken on August 1, 1912, captures a dancing group at Stave Falls. The image shows approximately fifty people posed together for the camera, with a Union Jack visible in the background.

This 1912 photograph from Mission documents part of a continuing tradition of community cultural expression that remains vital today.

Mission’s current cultural landscape, with its folk music festival and community concerts, demonstrates that while the technology of music consumption has evolved dramatically, the social aspect of music and dance remain the same.