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The Ancient English Horn Dance! - Still Folk Dancing...After All These Years, Preview - BBC Four

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More about this programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wgrtr

Renowned folk singers, Rachel and Becky Unthank, visit Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire for the annual horn dance. This dance, which was first performed in Abbots Bromley in the year 1226, is one of the few ritual rural customs to have withstood the passage of time.

The documentary 'Still Folk Dancing...After All These Years' will transmit on Friday 10th December at 9pm on BBC Four.

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  • it's wonderfull to see manifestations like thees :)

  • awesome accents all the waaays :D

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  • I LIVE HERE!!!

  • Cock in a frock, haha

  • @iiJoshbromley na na na barlow FTW.

  • reverend davis FTW

  • The young lady is wrong in saying it takes place on the first Monday in September. The formula for working the date is the first Monday after the first Sunday after the 4th. So the Horn Dance in 2011 will take place on the 12th September.

  • @tomtesticle ..excuse me u horrible little person how dare u make a remark like that..most offence 2 irish people..goes to show you're mind set and ur knowlege of past and current affairs..you're stinkin country needs mine just as much as we need u so deal with it and act accordingly instead of goin on youtube like a little bitch posting your childish,offensive and sad comments..you're country seen fit to help us out by means of 7 billion so they must have thought we were important enuf 2 do so

  • The Wearing of the Green? Fucking cheek!

  • @MsMoneySterling

    Very funny!

  • Looks like a fertility rite based on the fighting of the males over females at breeding time.

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