The Old Ravensthorpe Hobby Horse Dance

Lying long undiscovered in the vaults of Ravensthorpe (or was it Rothersthorpe?), a rare chance to see this ancient and insanitary old dance - the only traditional dance known to feature not one but FOUR hobby-horses. Recorded at the Moulton May Festival in 2005. Special thanks to the Prince of Wales Rattlers for the research and demonstration, Guy Fletcher on fiddle and to Rich Keen for the footage.

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Entertainment

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• Moulton
• Morris
• Ravensthorpe
• hobby
• horse
• Dance
• Traditional
• Folk
• Custom
• Rattlers

[RockinRobin411]

In Minnesota (in the US) there are four Morris sides. One that has had a hobby horse for years, one that had a hobby horse, but they got rid of it (I've been told it's in a basement or an attic somewhere), and there is one more side where one of the members is making a hobby horse. Maybe during an event where a Morris side from out of Minnesota comes and visits (one with a hobby horse), it might be good to do this dance.

[BritishAlienCompany]

The Rattlers Rock! :D xx

[Mihorin51]

Wow! It's great! Wonderful! 

The horse dance is very new and special to me.

It is very English and fascinating to me, Japanese.

Thank you so much for sharing this lovely horse dance video with me!!! ^^