Quote Originally Posted by Simon DS View Post
I know this about six years late as a reply but here’s an Olde English manuscript, try out four or five of the jigs in here and you’ll probably notice some Englishness.
https://pghardy.net/concertina/tuneb...arke_tunes.pdf
When I was a kid I met an old man who worked on the barges and said that if you want to hear good music you have to go to Norfolk, it’s part of East Anglia. A large part of the area was marshland that was drained using immigrant workers through the 17/1800’s. Not sure what music they brought with them...
We posted a set of English Jigs the other week :



For me the most English of them is the 'Lincolnshire Poacher' if only because we were taught it as a song in school. Captain La(m/n)oes's is often played with The Rogues March for dancing. I can imagine ankle bells for all of them.

'Tis my delight of a summer's night in the season of the year....'