| Main Performers | Loftus Sword Dancers,
Boys and Girls from The Secondary Modern School, Dingle Vale, Liverpool
Ravensbourne Morris Men,
Chagford Step Dancers,
Manley Morris Dancers,
District Dancers,
The Festival Company
Jean Ritchie - vocal,
James McKay,
Peter Kennedy,
Ioan Jenkins - fiddles,
Arthur Marshall - melodeon,
Frank McPeake,
Francis McPeake - uillean pipes,
J W Den Hollander - accordion,
Bob Cann - melodeon,
William Kimber,
Joe Whiddett,
Caleb Walker,
Fred Kilroy - concertinas,
Joe Clarke - drum,
Elsie Avril - violin |
| Orchestra or Band | Folk Dance Band,
Square Dance Band,
Hanwell Silver Band,
Festival Bands |
| Set List | The Abram Circle Dance (Hanwell Silver Band, Alan Smith, EFDSS London Members),
Morris Dances - Shooting, Gallant Hussar (Kennedy, Jenkins, EFDSS Demonstration Team),
Country Dances - The Triumph (England), The Road To California (USA) (Folk Dance Band, Fleming-Williams),
Yorkshire Sword Dance (Loftus Sword Dancers, Marshall),
Country Dances - Morpeth Rant, Cumberland Square Dance (Folk Dance Band, Secondary Modern School),
Folk Songs - 'Will You Go, Lassie,Go?' (Frank McPeake), 'The Coulin' (Slow Air) (Francis McPeake), 'Monaghan Fair' (Frank McPeake),
Morris Dances - Shepherds Hey, Beaux of London City (Adderbury) (Whiddett, Ravensbourne Morris Men),
Provinciale Rei, Kleppermars (Folkloregroep "Medioburgum'' (Middelburg), Den Hollander),
Country Dances - Virginia Reel, Sicilian Circle (Folk Dance Band, Fleming-Williams, Tams from the EFDSS Districts),
Folk Songs - 'The Cuckoo', 'The Cherry Tree Carol', 'Old Betty Larkin' (Ritchie),
Devonshire Step Dancing (Chagford Step Dancers, Bob Cann),
Morris Dance (Manley Morris Dancers, Walker, Kilroy, McDermott, Clarke)
INTERVAL
The Padstow Hobby Horse and Mayers (Bate, Chainey, Jasper),
The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance (EFDSS, Avril),
Horlepijp, Patertje (Folkloregroep ''Medioburgum" (Middelburg), Den Hollander),
A Suite of Country Dances - Gathering Peascods (The English Dancing Master) (Douglas Kennedy), Parson's Farewell, Nonesuch, Grimstock, arr. Arnold Foster and Elsie Avril ( EFDSS Demonstration Team),
Hunt The Squirrel, Double Set Back (The Headington Morris Dancers, William Kimber),
American Square Dancing (Square Dance Band, Fleming-Williams, Douglas Kennedy),
The Royal Earsdon Sword Dancers (James McKay),
Finale - La Russe (District Dancers, Hanwell Silver Band), Circassian Circle (Festival Company, Hanwell Silver Band),
'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem) |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1953/2) |