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| | The Feast of Fools | medieval festival | Wellington Maxwell Fernie Organ restoration pageant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | The dancing is interspersed with floor-shows which this year included a play, musical numbers, and dance demonstrations. |
 | | It was with the Reformation and the growth of the Puritan movement that attitudes changed, and dancing was regarded by some religious movements as being profane, wanton, and generally wicked. |
 | | They played medieval music for dancing continuously throughout the evening, on bagpipes, percussion, lutes, and recorders, sounding the merry notes of the estampies, the danse royales, the laments, the salterellos, and other lively dances of the time. |
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