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ID:4180
Title:(The) Young Widow
Formation: LW triple or 3C set
Summary:RH star, LH star
RH turn and LH turn
Lead down, couples wheel, back and cast
Lines forward and back
Circle left
Right and left through
CDs:Dance and Danceability by Assembly Players
At the Ball by Bare Necessities
Pride and Prejudice Volume III by Pemberley Players
Young Widow by Playford Consort
Yorktown Victory Ball by Legacy Trio
Grand Waterloo Ball by Green Ginger
English on-line by Merry Mayhem
Author:
Sources:24 Early American CD
Playford Assembly, The
Heritage Dances of Early America
Griffiths, Gent & Lady's Companion 1798
Contras as Ralph Page called them
Retreads
CDSS News
Barnes Book of ECD Tunes (Vol. 1)
Website: colinhume.com/instruct.htm

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