I especially like the description of the Breton dance being 'the hokey-cokey of its period'.
Geoff Turner Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 21:19:26 -0800 Subject: Re: [HG-new] British Pathe From: [email protected] To: [email protected] http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=34087 I love the description of this one: "GV Crowd around floodlit stage in Peoples' Park. GV Elevated crowd. SV People in national costume in crowd. SV Dancers. SV Men playing mechanical mandolin (possibly a Hurdy Gurdy). SV Dancers. CU Woman in national costume. SV Dancers dancing round in circle. They break and bow to crowd." Yah, thar be hurdy-gurdies! B On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Barbara Currier <[email protected]> wrote: And then there's this one: http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=31064 4 hurdy gurdies, accordions and dancers from Bretagne about minute in. INTERNATIONAL EISTEDDFOD in Llangollen, Wales Barbara -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster.
