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63Folk Dancers
Bacup, a small town situated between Rochdale and Burnley in Lancashire is home to the Bacup Coconut Dancers, and on Easter Saturday every year a band of men in strange costumes and blackened faces gather in the early morning at the Travellers Rest Public House on the A671 Rochdale to Bacup road. There, accompanied by members of Stacksteads Silver Band they dance their way through the streets following a tradition that takes them from one side of the Town to the other.
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66Folk Dance
Every September the Horn Dancers of Abbot's Bromley hold their annual folk dance, dancing through the streets of the town to the outlying farms, holding their deer antlers on sticks in front of them. The festival is held on the first Monday after the first Sunday after the 4th of September. The dance has been performed through Abbots Bromley and the surrounding area each year since 1226. Now, nearly 800 years later the festival is still being performed, and a remarkable fact is that in all that
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