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The Barn Owls put ‘spring’ into barn dances
AMES — In 1992, Jon Duvick had little idea, having just started a job with Pioneer Seed, that he’d be performing in The Barn Owl Band for over three decades. “I was part of the initial meeting that formed the band,” said Duvick. “We were going to do dances once a month and were expected to come up with music for barn dancers that would last about two hours. We didn’t have a name at the time; we were just ‘the band.’” Duvick played the bass from an early age and didn’t find it particularly hard to back up dance music with the bass. “I was a young ...