Flagcrackers of Craven

Dances

We perform traditional and contemporary border dances with single stepping. We usually design one new dance each year, during the winter. The design process is very much a communal effort, with everyone welcome to contribute ideas.

  Musician's Wrinkles (and we've got plenty)

Each dance page now has a link to the official FS crib sheet in PDF format

New Dance - tunes
 Ring of Bells (midi) sheet music 
Jameko (midi) sheet music

 

Traditional Dances

Dance	Tune
Dawley	Shepherd's Hey
Dilwyn Stick Dance	Dilwyn
Three Jolly Black Sheepskins	Three Jolly Black Sheepskins
Upton Stick Dance	The Upton Stick Dance Tune

Contemporary Dances

Dance	Tune
Bedlam FC	Bedlam Boys
Black  Pig	Captain Pugwash (Trumpet Hornpipe)
Captain's Farewell FC	Captain's Farewell *
Cobbler's Last FC	Cobbler's Last *
Craven Stomp FC	Bobby Shaftoe
Grasswood Stump FC	Over the  Hills
Semerwater Pudding FC	Waterddy Lane **
Wrekin  Havoc	Harvest Home/Kerry Hornpipe
The Dance With No Name FC	Gloucester Miner/Gloucester Hornpipe
The Mortal Coil FC	The Shaking of the Sheets
Green Man FC	Fairy Dance
Twiglets	Stafordshire Hornpipe

*Tunes composed by Paul Hudson
**Composed by John Kirkpatrick copyright  Squeezer Music.
The notation is in The John Kirkpatrick and Sue Harris Tune Book Opus Pocus, page 50.

FC - Dances designed by Flagcrackers of Craven

We include a summary of our dance notation, with a description of the sticking and the names of the moves. If you'd like more detail, come and see us dance, or ask us to arrange a workshop. If you'd like to perform any of our dances we'd prefer you to develop your own interpretation of our ideas, rather than a straight copy, and we ask that you announce that this is "based on a dance designed by The Flagcrackers of Craven".

Not in current use . . . . .

Evesham Stick Dance

Fanny Frail

Squire's Leave FC

Little Brown Jug/This Old Man

Noah's Ark

Donkey Riding