Knowing the way that dances travel, I wonder if the marazula -or a variation thereof -is danced in Orkney? Peerie Willie Johnson (a great Shetland musician who died recently) mentioned it to me a few years back. It's obviously travelled across The Pond -Mexico / Shetland - and I'm wondering if it's also part of the Orcadian dance repertoire ( minus the toorie). In Willie's own words; “We played Scottish music, reels and that, an occasional waltz, maybe, or a foxtrot. I’ll tell ye a little story. There was a dance they called the marazula, y’know – this was before the war. It’s only a few years back I was listening to a thing about Mexico and they’re playing this dance and it’s exactly the same, dancing over a hat – they didnae do that, here in Whiteness, but it was step for step exactly the same except for the hat. The Mexican Hat Dance - how it came to be here in Whiteness before the war I’ll never know. It was somebody before the war had probably heard it." Cheers, Jan At 09:04 AM 26/09/2007 Wednesday, you wrote: >George Gray wrote: > I am surprised that we have not had a comment from Peggy Bainton as I > am sure she can dance "The Pride of Erin" >It was only a few weeks ago that Peggy tried to do "The Postie's Jig" > with us at a ceilidh in Finstown. > > "The Postie's Jig" was such fun! I love going to ceilidhs! Other > popular dances are: Dashing White Sergeant, Britannia Two Step, and the > Quickstep. I would love to learn to dance the Quickstep! Maybe George > would be so kind as to teach me that one next summer! I also love the > Polyglide! And, what's the name of that polka we do at the end of most > dances? Is it Jacob's Polka? I learned how to dance the Mississippi Dip > this summer and thought that was fun. Many of the four-couple dances > tell a story and are pretty to watch. Dancing is a big part of my > summers in Orkney. All this talk about Orkney dancing makes me feel > nostalgic. > > By the way, The Pride of Erin is the correct spelling. > > Peggy in West Va > > >--------------------------------- >Building a website is a piece of cake. >Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. >_______________________________________ >Orcadia Group Photo Album >http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message Jan Nary 31 Leybourne St, Chelmer Queensland 4068 Publicist & Journalist Publicist National Folk Festival Exhibition Park in Canberra 5 - 9 April 2007 <http://www.folkfestival.asn.au/>http://www.folkfestival.asn.au Acoustic Harvest 4EB 98.1 FM www.4eb.org.au & Acoustic Harvest, Planet Radio 88 FM www.planetradio.com.au. tel. +61 7 3379 4178 fax +61 7 3278 2360 mob. 0429 898 328 UK 07905 976 173

Hi Jan... One of my friends on the site asked for a copy of one of my songs, and then I saw your note hereunder and recalled that you were a musician or a producer or something like that. Here is my unsolicited presentation of a tune I did years ago, when my friends and I all figured we were going to lose our farms as interest rates at the bank were 21% and we all had young kids. The tune became quite a national protest thing I recall you sending me a Todd Gibbs cd, so here is my own back country, Orkney rooted north country return volley. Hope it isn't deemed rude. Cheery-O.....Stephen Kolbein Davie On Sep 25, 2007, at 10:15 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Knowing the way that dances travel, I wonder if the marazula -or a > variation thereof -is danced in Orkney? Peerie Willie Johnson (a great > Shetland musician who died recently) mentioned it to me a few years > back. > It's obviously travelled across The Pond -Mexico / Shetland - and > I'm > wondering if it's also part of the Orcadian dance repertoire > ( minus the > toorie). In Willie's own words; > > ?We played Scottish music, reels and that, an occasional waltz, > maybe, or > a foxtrot. I?ll tell ye a little story. There was a dance they > called the > marazula, y?know ? this was before the war. It?s only a few years > back I > was listening to a thing about Mexico and they?re playing this > dance and > it?s exactly the same, dancing over a hat ? they didnae do that, > here in > Whiteness, but it was step for step exactly the same except for the > hat. > The Mexican Hat Dance - how it came to be here in Whiteness before > the war > I?ll never know. It was somebody before the war had probably heard > it." > > Cheers, > Jan > >