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Our audiences are always excited to learn that they are dancing to the same tunes people danced to some 300 years ago.
Each track is based on a tune from a traditional English manuscript or printed tune book.
Overview info about the tunes for people that have never heard of us or the music we play – (couldn’t access from old website, sorry).
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Playford’s Dancing Master 1786
Playford’s Dancing Master 1701
Rutherford’s Compleat Collection of Country Dances 1756
John Johnson’s Choice Collection of Country Dances 1750
The Matthew Betham Manuscript 1815
The William Irwin Manuscript 1838 Edited by John Offord
John Walsh’s Third Book of the Most Celebrated Jigs c.1730
Daniel Wright’s Complete Collection of Celebrated Country Dances c.1730
Thomas Marsden’s Collection of Original Lancashire Hornpipes c.1745
The Browne Family Manuscript c.1825
The Matthew Betham Manuscript 1815
Rutherford’s Complete Collection of Country Dances 1756
Thompson’s Compleat Country Dances 1765