Grampound Furry
No Tune or Words extant REFERENCES
Cecil Sharp
Sharp`s folk tunes,Vol 14 p 2851
Folk Dance NOTES Vol III
Collected from Phillip Luke and Mary Goodman May 1913
Corollyn, Cam Kernewek, Perranporth, 1993 (see bibliography). NOTES
" Cecil Sharp also collected information about the Grampound Furry during his visit to Cornwall but was unable to stay for the actual dance. His informants were a Mr Phillip Luke (82) his son, and a lady called Mary Goodman (86). They described the dance much as it was done in Helston except that couples held hands across when they danced forward. They also explained that the procession would stop every so often and the dancers would reform in a ring , going first clockwise then anticlockwise around the circle. Whilst doing this some dancers would perform another figure in the middle of the circle such as a six hand reel. The Grampound Furry took place on Whit Tuesday"
(Corollyn, Cam Kernewek, Perranporth, 1993 (see bibliography).
