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Cambridgeshire Broom Dancing - The Cross Hand Polka played by Nigel Pennick on Mountain Dulcimer

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The Cambridgeshire broom dance and molly tune "Cross-Hand Polka" played by Nigel Pennick on a 1981 Aidan Edwards mountain dulcimer.

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12/04/14 09:19:12AM @patty-from-virginia:

Nigel, Thank you for the link! I enjoyed that!

12/04/14 06:32:20AM @nigel-pennick:

Patty - thankyou. The broom dance is an old tradition in East Anglia in the east of England and in Herefordshire in the west midlands. I have been told the tradition by boom dancers who said that it was donein celebration after the work was finished sweeping out the barn. It is also customary on Plough Monday, when farmwork began again after the Twelve Days of Christmas break. It is performed now - here is an example

12/03/14 05:25:43PM @patty-from-virginia:

Nice! I would have loved to have seen a video of the broom dance. Is there a story or tradition behind this dance? I'm curious.

12/03/14 02:48:33PM @strumelia:

Lots of fun, thanks for posting this!

12/02/14 10:02:29PM @cindy-stammich:

Fun song - and love the pics!

12/02/14 08:38:29AM @ken-backer:

Thanks for posting, Nigel. At last... I've found a way fun way of sweeping the floors in our house

12/02/14 06:32:26AM @benjamin-w-barr-jr:

Continuing to illustrate the versatility of the dulcimer to play across all musical genres.