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Thread #133141 Message #3017536
Posted By: Fred McCormick
28-Oct-10 - 05:11 AM
Thread Name: Máirtín de Cógáin: What's the Brush Dance?
Subject: RE: Máirtín de Cógáin: What's the Brush Dance?
Joe, try googling broom dance. I've never come across it in Ireland, which probably means I've been looking in the wrong places. But it used to be fairly common in England at one time, as a solo dance and without the vaccuum cleaner (tut tut).
The last person I heard of who did it as part of his local tradition was a guy called Ken, who died about ten years ago. he used to perform it in the Miners Arms in Priestweston in Shropshire.