Annotation:Worrell's Hornpipe
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WORRELL'S HORNPIPE. American, Hornpipe (2/4 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title perhaps refers to William Worrell and/or his three daughters, Sophie, Irene and Jennie, who performed in their youth with their father and later as an act on their own. In 1867 the Worrells advertised "ballads, duets, single and duo dances, jigs, reels, and hornpipes" in addition to banjo solos. The started in 1851 with Nathan's Circus and were in San Francisco in 1857 with Lee and Marshall Circus, billed as the "Juvenile Graces" (where perhaps they came into contact with minstrel performer George H. Coes). A few years later they toured Australia with their father, returning to San Francisco. By 1867 they had moved east to perform in a number of plays and variety shows in New York and Provicence, and leased a theater in New York where they gave performances. Each married in the early 1870's.
The Worrell sisters were the only dancing rivals to the greatest female performer of the era, Lotta Crabtree. They performed in clog-dancing shoes, but their reputation took a hit when it was later discovered that Jennie Worrell's clogs had trick heels (heels that were hollowed out with tin-lined boxes placed inside and holding two bullets), that made it sound like she was dancing faster than she really was.
