Ah.. well.. may be this is it, the original post was about the music not the dance (or indeed the people dancing the dance)

I think the romanticed ideal is the notion that just because a dance is danced by people that live there it must be a tradition passed on down from years gone by. It may or may not. The current music to the original AB dance is not at all tradtional. The debate of wheter it especially suits the dance would not be relevant if the argument that it is the traditional way held. But it doesn't.

Saying they can do what ever they like with it as they're Abbot's Bromleyans doesn't make any sense. (not that i disapprove of what they are doing with it, I just prefer the twilight, old tune rendition)    I think the attack on people gathering local antlers from their area and starting their own tradition based on the original is appalling and comes back to the same arguments of evolving/preserving traditions that have been done to death here.

As for the name, it's a homage to the origin isn't it? It hopefully would provoke the question from an interested party as to enquire whether an Abbot's Bromley is a type of clergyman's apple only to find out that it's a place. Of course you never know whether a sneaky 'merican will patent the dance when your back is turned.