Dances

Details for "Knutsford"
(Knutsford)

Name	Knutsford
Style	Northwest
Tradition	(Knu) Knutsford
New dance ?	no
Origin	Cranford and Gaskell Morris Dance Teams (Traditional)
Size of set	16 (A file of 8 men and a file of 8 women)
Hands	Shillelaghs
Tunes	Fair Maids of Poynton
	Off She Goes
	Upton
	J.B. Milne
	Portsmouth
	Brighton Camp
	L&B Polka
References
Other Notes	The dance was collected from an ex-dancer in the Cranford and later Gaskell teams in Knutsford in the early 1920s. She had also danced in the Mobberley team. Some teams dance with 8, and some use rattles or short sticks
Code	nKnuKNUT
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