Oak Apple Day

Style: Headington (Cotswold)
Tune: The Twenty-Ninth of May
Dancers: 6
Hankies: bagged
Stepping: Headington double-steps, cross-backs, foot-together-jump
Source: Oak Apple Morris via Damaris Rosenow
Chorus: #1 & #3: “birdcage”: #1, 2, 5, & 6 dance clockwise around the set while #3 & #4 dance around each other (like a whole gyp) in the center counter-clockwise; half hey. Repeat.
#2 & #4: “cannons” or “explode”: 4 double steps.

  • #1: 1st corners move to just past the center (others dance in place);
  • #2: 2nd corners move to just past the center (others dance in place);
  • #3: 3rd corners move to just past the center (others dance in place);
  • #4: all dancers “explode” outwards. Then modified half hey, moving in from “exploded” positions. Repeat.

Sequence: once to yourself, foot up, chorus/birdcage, crossover, chorus/cannons, back-to-back, chorus/birdcage, whole hey, chorus/cannons & all-in 

X:1
T:The Twenty-Ninth of May
T:(Oak Apple Day)
M:C
L:1/8
C:Traditional
S:Bacon
A:Headington
O:English
R:Reel
P:A.(A2B2)4.A
Q:1/4=138
K:G
V:1
%%MIDI channel 1
%%MIDI control 7 100	% volume = 100
%%MIDI program 41       % General MIDI violin
%%MIDI transpose 0
%%MIDI gchordoff
P:A
|: D>G | B2 B2 B>cd>B | c2 A2 A2 B>c | d>ed>B c>dc>A | B2 G2  G2 :|
P:B
|: g>f \
%%setbarnb 5
| e2 d2 d2 G>A | B2 B2 B2 g>f | e2 d2  c2 B2  | A>GF>E D2 D>G |
B2 B2 B>cd>B | c2 A2 A2 B>c | d>ed>B c>dc>A | B2 G2  G2 :|