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In Newfoundland, anyway, it wasn't just the tunes that used to be in people's homes, it was the dances, too: "Mostly they'd have a dance in the kitchen. It was
by colomon 11y ago
In Newfoundland, anyway, it wasn't just the tunes that used to be in people's homes, it was the dances, too: "Mostly they'd have a dance in the kitchen. It was all wooden floors. Some of the kitchens was a bit small so they'd have to take out the stove, lift it outdoors in the yard for to make more room for dancing...and they'd play all night and in the morning they'd bring in the stove again for to boil the kettle and have a cup of tea." (Vince Collins)
- stcredzero 11y agoWas also once the pattern for Irish traditional dancing, with even more wrinkles on top of that. (Churches building the parish halls, and forwarding Ceili dancing as a more chaste form of social dancing.) Newfoundland has benefited in terms of the preservation of its cultural heritage through a degree of isolation.