A complete Barn Dance Programme from the Border region
of Cumberland and Northumberland - with over 60 tunes used for Country
dances, Reels, Quadrilles & Old-time Couple dances - played on fiddle,
harmonica, jews-harp, melodeon, piccolo, whistle - Jack Armstrong's Barnstormer's
Band, and solo players: George Armstrong (fiddle), Billy Ballantine Piccolo),
Bob Clarke (jews harp), Billy Conroy (tin whistle), Tom Edmondson (accordion),
Jimmy & Tom Hunter (harmonica & fiddle), Jake Hutton, Ned Pearson,
Jim Rutherford, Geordie & George Taylor - recorded 1954. The fun began
when the MC called for The Grand March leading into the two figures of
Circassian Circle - this way you met every single body
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