The Broadside Band recreate the excitement and colour of the country dance of yesteryear with spirited performances of these quintessentially English tunes gleaned from the 17th century publications of John Playford. Suitable for listening or dancing Playford style.
TRACK LISTING
- Cuckolds all a row
- Shepheards Holyday or Labour in Vaine
- Newcastle
- The Beggar Boy
- Picking of sticks
- Faine I would if I could or Parthenia
- Gathering Peascods
- The Night-Peece or The shaking of the Sheets
- Chelsey Reach or Buckingham-House
- Jameko
- Epping Forest
- Well-Hall
- The Fits come on me now or The Bishop of Chester's Jigg
- Mad Robin
- Red-House
- Mr. Beveridge's Magot
- The Geud Man of Ballangigh, To a New Scotch Jigg
- Childgrove
- Woolly and Georgey
- Portsmouth
- White-Hall Minuett
- Bloomsberry Market