The Bonny Cuckoo

The Bonny Cuckoo is an English Country Dance devised by Gail Ticknor in 1986. It is a proper 4 couple longways dance. This tune, Sheebeg and Sheemore, was composed by Turlough O'Carolan and was performed by Bare Necessities (Earl Gaddis, Mary Lea, Peter Barnes, and Jacqueline Schwab) on the album "More Favorites of the Boston Centre". It is used with permission of Country Dance Society, Boston Centre, Inc. https://www.cds-boston.org/ecdc/ The animation plays at 108 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. https://www.upadouble.info/