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Great Grandson of Morris On, produced by Ashley Hutchings, and recorded and released in 2004, is the fourth volume in the series of Morris dance tunes. Spiers and Boden experienced a blaze of publicity shortly after recording their contribution to this album (track 3), which later appeared on the compilation album The Magic of Morris .
Morris dancers with handkerchiefs in York. Morris dancing is a form of English folk dance.It is based on rhythmic stepping and the execution of choreographed figures by a group of dancers in costume, usually wearing bell pads on their shins, their shoes or both.
The Sword dance is one of the best known of all Highland dances, an ancient dance of war. Performance of sword dances in the folklore of Scotland is recorded from as early as the 15th century. [1] [2] [3] Related customs are found in the Welsh and English Morris dance, in Austria, Germany, Flanders, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Romania.
Highland Mary is a song composed in 1792 by Scottish poet Robert Burns. [1] It is one of three works dedicated to Mary Campbell , with whom Burns was in love in the 1780s. The others, "Highland Lassie, O" and "Will Ye Go to the Indies My Mary?", were composed in 1786.
Mary Campbell, also known as Highland Mary [3] (christened Margaret, March 1763 [1] – 1786), was the daughter of Archibald Campbell of Daling, a sailor in a revenue cutter, [4] whose wife was Agnes Campbell of Achnamore or Auchamore. Mary was the eldest of a family of four.
A Scottish country dance of a somewhat similar name, Earl of Errol's Reel, is performed in groups of 6 dancers (3-couple sets) as part of Scottish country dancing repertoire. [6] The Earl of Errol's Reel is a jig, collected in Quebec, Canada, by Mary Isdal MacNab, who noted that the dance originated in France.
Mary Lilian Agnes Morris (13 December 1915 – 14 October 1988) was a Fijian-born British actress. Life and career. ... ‘Dancing in the Dark ...
Henry Rolf Gardiner (5 November 1902 – 26 November 1971) was an English rural revivalist who helped to bring back folk dance styles including Morris dancing and sword dancing. He also founded groups significant in the British history of organic farming ; his forestry methods were far ahead of their time and he was a founder member of the Soil ...