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Newcastle Kingsmen - Rapper notations

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To Slay a Bullock. Here you will find the notations of the rapper dances performed by the Newcastle Kingsmen. At present, notations are available here for the three rapper sword dances performed by the Kingsmen, and there is a link to the notations page of Rapper Online, where notations are available for other traditional rapper dances. As part of the To Slay a Bullock. Byker Buildings dance notation. Maintained by webmaster @ kingsmen.co.uk. Last updated: 1 December 2015.

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Newcastle Kingsmen - Video

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To Slay a Bullock. Links to a number of videos of the Kingsmen are shown below. There are more videos on the Newcastle Kingsmen YouTube channel. The Flowerpot, DERT 2010. Byker Buildings in the Cumberland Arms, 60th Anniversary (2009). Rapper in the Cumberland Arms, 60th Anniversary (2009). The Tanners, DERT 2009. The Eye on the Tyne, DERT 2009. The Evening Showcase, DERT 2009. Rapper demonstration, Whitby Folk Week 2009. Corner House, Innerleithen, Traquair Fair 2008. Davygate, Sword Spectacular 2008.

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Newcastle Kingsmen - Team History

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To Slay a Bullock. History of the Newcastle Kingsmen. Rag week having been so successful, the team decided to carry on and became known as the King's College Morris Men. The repertoire was extended to include the Grenoside longsword dance in 1950, when the Grenoside team visited Newcastle and taught us their dance, and the side went on to win the longsword class of the North of England Musical Tournament with this dance in the same year! Although the current membership of the Kingsmen is a mix of student...

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Newcastle Kingsmen - Book the Kingsmen

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To Slay a Bullock. If you are holding an event near Newcastle upon Tyne, you can book the Kingsmen! Whether you are organising a festival, wedding, ceilidh, ball, formal dinner, charity event. we can add something different to keep your guests entertained! For further information and to make a booking, e-mail bagman @ kingsmen.co.uk. Maintained by webmaster @ kingsmen.co.uk. Last updated: 1 December 2015.

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Newcastle Kingsmen - Introduction to the team

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To Slay a Bullock. Meet the Newcastle Kingsmen. The Kingsmen have been at the forefront of the revival of the Northumbrian rapper sword dance since 1949, leading the field in research, publication and teaching of the dance, as well as performance of the dance. We also perform two different variants of the related longsword dance as well as the processional northwest dance from Royton. Who are the Newcastle Kingsmen? Yorkshire) and the Royton northwest dance. The Kingsmen are all men – except if the...

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Newcastle Kingsmen - Rapper Characters

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To Slay a Bullock. Two comic characters, called “Tommy” and “Betty”, are part of the rapper sword dance tradition. The Tommy and Betty often introduce the dance and seek to engage the audience. Ldquo;In the rapper dance, it seems to me, the characters add to the urgency and the drama; the best make the difference between a display and a great event.”. Simon Pipe in ‘Shave the Donkey’ (2000). Extract from Ednie Wilson's tribute to Joe Scurfield. Old Rope String Band website). Having entered, the Betty the...

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Newcastle Kingsmen - To Slay a Bullock

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To Slay a Bullock. To Slay a Bullock. In 2008, the Kingsmen were invited to be part of a collaboration with the Grenoside Sword Dancers to celebrate 100 since Cecil Sharp’s first visit to Tyneside and the subsequent publication of ‘The Sword Dances of Northern England Volume 1’ in January 1911. The project took two years of hard work and practices in Sheffield and Newcastle to produce a spectacular show which was performed in 2010. Kirkby Malzeard Longsword Dance. The dance went down so well in the To Sl...

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Newcastle Kingsmen - Quotes about the Kingsmen

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To Slay a Bullock. Quotes about the Kingsmen. Ldquo;The two ‘grown-up’ displays which were quite outstanding and as good as anything shown for some years were the Rapper Sword dancing of the team from Kings College in Newcastle upon Tyne, and the Texas Square dance.”. HK describing the 1952 Albert Hall Festival in EFDS News XVI(5):154-156, 1952. Account of 1956 Albert Hall Festival in EFDS News XX(4):125, 1956. Jack Atkin, leader of Winlaton, interviewed in 1959. Ldquo;The link with Newcastle University ...

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Newcastle Kingsmen - Music for Rapper

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To Slay a Bullock. The rapper sword dance is usually danced to jigs, that is to say tunes in 6/8 time. Normally double jigs are used, as they are easier to dance to, but single jigs can also be used. Slip jigs, which are in 9/8 time, are not generally suitable for rapper. It is common change to another jig at the end of a strain part way through a dance. And “The Rakes of Kildare”. And “Cock o' the North”. Different rapper sides dance at different speeds (although in theory the speed should remain consta...

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Newcastle Kingsmen - Royton

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To Slay a Bullock. The Royton Northwest Dance. A dance originating from the cotton mills of Royton, near Oldham in Lancashire, this is very colourful, very noisy and very entertaining. We wear hats covered with flowers, red and yellow baldrics (not the Black Adder. Type but sort of ribbony things across our chests) and clogs with bells on. Large hanks of cotton (rather like elongated tampons) are swung in rhythm with the music, which is in march time – making the dance ideal for processions. Some claim t...