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Description: | This photograph shows the Royal Earsdon rapper dance team, possibly around the time they danced at Alnwick Castle, at Christmas 1906. The dancers are George Osborne (central) and Tommy Spence (back row, second right). The musician is Jimmy McKay.The picture forms part of a collection held by Beamish Museum. The photographs come from various sources and range in date from 1880 to 1932. Amongst the subjects are famous Northumbrian pipers Tom Green and Thomas Clough, as well as local composer and character Tommy Armstrong. The collection also includes some of the earliest photographs of clog and rapper dance teams and provides a rare visual archive of traditional music at this time. ; A collection of photographs of North-East composers, musicians and performers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. | Rights holder: | rights holder : Beamish Museum | Subjects: | sword dancing & rapper dancing | Temporal: | start=1901;end=1940; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:B0701001 | Go to resource |
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