Annotation:Clog Dance (1)
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CLOG DANCE [1]. AKA and see "Willenhall Clog Dance." Scottish, English; Clog or Hornpipe (cut time). A Major (Kerr): G Major (Raven). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Clog Dance (1)" AKA "Willenhall Clog Dance" is a Lancashire clog (Willenhall is a historic market town in the historic county of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands, England, near Birmingham). Clog dancing in England developed in the 19th century, probably in the cotton mills of the region where wooden-soled clogs were preferred to leather[1]. The dance is said to have originated with the female employees of the mills, who kept time with the rhythmic sounds of the machinery. It is even said that knowledgeable mill people could tell which machines the girls worked, and at which of the many mills of the Midlands and North West England they were employed[2].
The first strain is shared with the English "Dorset Four Hand Reel (2)," Prince Edward Island's "Doucette's Dream" and the Irish "Low Level Hornpipe (The)." See also the related "Leitrim Clog Dance."
