Bury Fair ~ Christian

Bury Fair is an English Country Dance first found in Playford’s Dancing Master of 1696. This version was adapted by Graham Christian in 1999. Found in “The Playford Assembly“. It is a proper triple minor dance. The tune was published with the dance. It was performed by Bare Necessities (Earl Gaddis, Mary Lea, Peter Barnes, and Jacqueline Schwab) on the album “Favorites of the Boston Centre“. It is used with permission of Country Dance Society, Boston Centre, Inc. The animation plays at 107 counts per minute normally, but the first time through the set the dance is slowed down so people can learn the moves more readily. Men are drawn as rectangles, women as ellipses. Each couple is drawn in its own color, however the border of each dancer indicates what role they currently play so the border color may change each time through the minor set.