It was, ‘Wow, we’ve arrived! Mac wrote us a tune!’ And of course there are a lot of people who have their tune and treasure that.”Īfter serving in the Marines during World War II, McQuillen came to the Monadnock region, where he started attending contra and square dances. “I know how excited people were when they got a tune written for them," Millstone said. David Millstone is a dance caller and a videographer who produced a documentary about McQuillen in 2001. Or animal – cats, dogs, two horses to date…”įriends say these personal tunes were an indication of McQuillen’s connection with people.
"Usually in due course I come up with one for that person or the situation. “If I run across somebody in the course of my musical activities, I will say to myself that so-and-so needs a tune," McQuillen said. And as he noted on NHPR in 2002, many of them were written for – and named for - individuals: Mack” – Among those contribitions: writing thousands of tunes. McQuillen - sometimes called “Mac” or “Mr. Earlier this week New Hampshire’s contra dance community said goodbye to one of its most celebrated musicians and writers.īob McQuillen died Tuesday following a stroke.
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