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Dance the Cold Winter Away

Dance the Cold Winter Away, a three couple longways mixer by Don Bell (2021) Tune: Drive the Cold Winter Away, Playford, 1651 Music by The Broadside Band Available for free at:    • The English Dancing Master: Drive the Cold...   I slowed the tempo to 90% on Amazing Slowdowner. Dancers: Janet Nardolillo, William Brearley, Fred Barker, Sandy Waxgiser, Don & Diane Bell Danced in Ballston Spa, NY, December 11, 2021 The original version of the dance "Drive the Cold Winter Away," was published in John Playford's English Dancing Master in 1651, reprinted by Hugh Mellor in 1933. My copy is by Dance Books Ltd., 1984. A slightly updated version of the dance was published by Charles Bolton in Retreads, Volume 9, 2003. My version of the dance preserves the basic 3 couple USA format of the original dance but changes the B parts to make it a mixer. I think changing partners every round of the dance makes it a more interesting dance for the dancers. The Rose Ensemble has a beautiful version of the song, "Drive the Cold Winter Away."    • Drive the Cold Winter Away   All Hail to the Days (Drive the Cold Winter Away), from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Hai...) "All Hail to the Days", also known as "Drive the Cold Winter Away", "In Praise of Christmas", and "The Praise of Christmas", is an English Christmas carol of Elizabethan origins. The carol first appeared as a broadside in circa 1625, though its origins are unclear; Thomas Durfrey is sometimes erroneously identified as the lyricist. Though obscure, the carol has featured in numerous hymnals over the centuries.[1] It is traditionally sung to the tune "When Phoebus did rest", under which it is printed in the Pepys and Roxburgh collections and Playford’s The English Dancing Master. The carol's lyrics discuss various seasonal festivities during Christmastide, which is directly mentioned in the verse "When Christmastide comes in like a bride…Twelve days in the year, much mirth and good cheer." During the Elizabethan era (from which the song originates), the majority of Christmas celebrations occurred during the Twelve Days of Christmas.[3] Traditional Elizabethan Christmas festivities alluded to in the carol include wassailing, feasting, and theatre performances. Lyrics All hail to the days that merit more praise Than all the rest of the year, And welcome the nights that double delights, As well for the poor as the peer! Good fortune attend each merry man's friend, That doth but the best that he may; Forgetting old wrongs, with carols and songs, To drive the cold winter away. This time of the year is spent in good cheer, And neighbours together do meet, To sit by the fire, with friendly desire, Each other in love do greet; Old grudges forgot, are put in the pot, All sorrows aside they lay, The old and the young doth carol his song, To drive the cold winter away. To mask and to mum kind neighbours will come With wassails of nut-brown ale, To drink and carouse to all in the house, As merry as bucks in the dale; Where cake, bread and cheese is brought for your fees, To make you the longer stay; At the fire to warm will do you no harm, To drive the cold winter away. When Christmastide comes in like a bride, With holly and ivy clad, Twelve days in the year, much mirth and good cheer, In every household is had; The country guise is then to devise Some gambols of Christmas play, Whereat the young men do best that they can, To drive the cold winter away. When white-bearded frost hath threatened his worst, And fallen from branch and brier, Then time away calls, from husbandry halls And from the good countryman's fire, Together to go to plough and to sow, To get us both food and array; And thus with content the time we have spent To drive the cold winter away.