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Thread #104824 Message #2152691
Posted By: Mick Tems
19-Sep-07 - 12:09 PM
Thread Name: Tympath/Ceilidh band needed Oct 27th
Subject: RE: Tympath/Ceilidh band needed Oct 27th
Dr Price's Fire Band (me, Olly and Mike Greenwood) could rescue your twmpath/ceilidh - distance no object, and practically on our doorstep (he estimated wildly.) Incidentally, there's a hill in Hereford called Hetty Pegler's Tump. Sian's perfectly correct; in the Old Days before the Religious Revival and before the unspeakable Kim Howells had ever been thought of, villagers used to dance on the the green to a harper and fiddler, who were seated on a mound, or twmpath. This word gradually changed, until a "twmpath" meant a dance.