Culver City, CA

June 22, 2025

Band: Frank Hoppe and Laura Osborne


  Dance Name Author Variants/comments
1 My Lord Byron's Maggot Playford 1701 Playford 1701
2 Alice Philippe Callens  
3 Yellow Stockings Neal 1726  
4 Heartsease Playford 1651 2-couple set
5 A Health to All Honest Men Walsh 1718  
6 The Boatman Playford 1651 3-couple set
SCA reconstruction
7 Prince of Westborough Paula Kelley  
Break
8 Jack's Health Playford 1686  
9 Doubled Five John Sweeney 5-person set
10 Local Produce David Smukler  
11 Trip to Provence Susan Kevra  

Cecil Sharp's interpretation of Boatman is too rushed, making it barely danceable. I much more like the original way I learned the dance, in an SCA reconstruction. (Though I changed all the set and turn singles to the right, to not completely break dancers's expectations.

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