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- The Rapscallion Rapper
The Rapper Sword Dance is a tradition which developed in the coalfields of the N.E. of England. It is one of the more recent forms of traditional dance and also one of the more spectacular. The team consists of five dancers linked together by holding ...
http://www3.amherst.edu/~bdahill/rapscallion/
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- The Barnsley Longsword
Formed in 1968, following a Whitby Folk Festival, Barnsley Longsword, an all male team, has not only performed all over England but has also travelled on the Continent to various venues. We first mastered a dance from Kirkby Malzeard, a small village ...
http://www.geocities.com/blongsword/
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- The Great Meadows Rapper
Great Meadows Morris and Sword is a group of high schoolage students from the Greater Boston area who perform traditional English morris and rapper sword dances. Since 1999, we have danced at festivals and special events throughout Massachusetts and ...
http://www.freewebs.com/greatmeadowsmorris/index.html
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- The Southport Swords
The Southport Swords are a team of Mens Sword & Morris dancers based in Southport, which is a seaside town about 12 miles north of Liverpool, England and attracts members from the surrounding villages and towns. ...
http://www.southportswords.org.uk/
| | - The Triskele Sword Sheffield
Triskele Sword of Sheffield perform the Rapper sword dance, which is traditional to the coal fields of Northumberland and County Durham. The rapper is a fast lively dance and is often best seen in a confined space where the interaction of the charact ...
http://www.triskelesword.org/
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- NUT On The Net
The NUT on the Net is the website of The NUT, the journal of the Northumbrian rapper sword dance, published three times a year on a nonprofit basis, bringing you the latest news of teams and events, complete with a whole host of other articles. The N ...
http://www.the-nut.net/
| | - The Addison Rapper
Formed in 1977 by a group of friends who met at a folk club. The hotel in which the folk club was held had been in its former days offices to a colliery known as the Addison. So the team took their name from this colliery. The Addison stood on the ba ...
http://www.addisonrapperandclog.org.uk/
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- Leslies Banbury Rapper
The team performed from late 1999 until a final outing at the Marlborough Ale in the U.S.A. in 2005 and then reformed with some new faces to take on Transylvania when Adderbury toured there in 2007. You would have seen us dancing to a lively medley o ...
http://www.kickback.btinternet.co.uk/Mr.Leslies/Banbury.Rapper.html
| | - The Short Circuit Rapper
Short Circuit are a rapper sword team based in the Newcastle upon Tyne area. The team formed to dance their own version of the local rapper sword dance tradition. They practise weekly and perform locally and at festivals further afield. Rapper is a ...
http://www.shortcircuitrapper.co.uk/
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