Upton-On-Severn Tunes
Sources: MK (Jour EFDSS, 1933, p.101); RD (MK MSS).
TYhe music: Hornpipes for stick dance (e.g. Brighton Camp, Yankee Doodle), jig-tunes
for handkerchief dance (e.g. Bonnets So Blue). The tune published by MK for the
stick dance was collected by her in Newfoundland and was not a morris tune.
Concertina in the 1920s; fiddler before that.
Photo: Upton on Severn -
William Griffin as musician; Ring Archive, Ref: OM 11
The abc format file is at abc/UptonOnSevern.abc.
See comments on the index page about using abc files.
- Bonnets of Blue
"Although they had not danced for four or five years, Mr Griffin
collected a set of dancers together to show Maud Karpeles two dances on
the evening of June 10th 1925. The dancers consisted of himself,
his two sons, his sons in law, whilst Alf, the eldest son, played
the concertina.
His daughter Edith was also involved to make up the
numbers and appears on the photographs that were taken on the same
occasion. Edith herself claimed that this happened quite often before
this occasion, but only if the side was short of men". The Roots of
Welsh Border Morris, by Dave Jones, Revised Ed. 1995.