Hunter Keller

Hunter had been around square dancing all of his life, having been dragged from dance to dance by his grandparents and parents. His grandfather passed in 2002, and Hunter decided to start taking square dance lessons in 2004, after a little push from his grandmother.

A mere six months later, he picked up a microphone and began calling. He eventually would become the caller various Billings clubs. In 2008, Hunter revived the club his grandparents formed, the Checkerboard Squares.

Hunter called his first festival in July of 2007 in California. He has called in 46 states while also traveling to Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden and Taiwan to call. Hunter has also been staff on square dance land and cruise vacations to various locations around the world.

In 2006, he became a member of CALLERLAB and is a member CALLERLAB Ways and Means Committee and the CALLERLAB Marketing Committee. Hunter is also past CALLERLAB Liaison for the State of Montana and is the past Chairman of the CALLERLAB Youth Committee.

In 2007, Hunter attended his first Caller’s School with instructor, Scot Byars. In 2008, he attended his second school with instructors, Tony Oxendine and Jerry Jestin. Both of these trainings were made possible by the Bob Mace Memorial Fund. Bob Mace was a caller that Hunter grew up around when his parents and grandparents danced. In 2009, Hunter was blessed to have an opportunity to have a week-long, one-on-one training with Jerry Story and Tony Oxendine at Pride RV Resort in Maggie Valley, North Carolina.

In August of 2008, Hunter was invited to become a recording artist for Royal Records. He recorded his first song, Wild Horses by Garth Brooks (Hunter's biggest musical influence), in October of that year and has since gone on to record over 30 square dance records. In 2010, with the guidance of Larry and Susan Sperry, Hunter began to cue round dancing and released his first choreographed dance in December of 2019. Hunter cues through Phase V.

Hunter resides in Billings, Montana where he works as a Funeral Director after getting his Mortuary Science Degree in 2022. He is a ten-year 4-H alumni, a former 4-H leader, and a former Jaycees Member.