Up Tails All will provide lively music for your ceilidh or barndance. English, Irish, Scottish and American tunes and dances to suit your event, wedding, birthday or Celebration. We're based in the East Midlands, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby and Ashby but can travel for your event.

Up Tails All are -


Richard Ashe                 Sally Jackson                 Alan Squires                  Howard Mitchell

Contact

Richard Ashe, 01530 563702, richard@uptailsall.co.uk

Howard Mitchell, 0116 241 9385, howard@uptailsall.co.uk

Alan Squires, 01332 840646, alan@uptailsall.co.uk


 
  

Up Tails All ?

Up Tails All is the name of a tune and a dance in The Fitzwilliam Virginal  Book from the early 17th Century, in the Dancing Master 1651,  in Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1707 and 1719 and then again in Chappell's  Popular Music of the Olden Time,  1859.  It’s also a song "Fly Merry News, Among the Crews, That love to hear of Jests, Up Tails All!", and  a dance

A. Double in and out, set and turn single. Repeat.
B. 1st couple lead thru 2s, cast off, clap and arm. 2s Repeat
C. As in B but clap and hands across.
D. As in B but clap and circle.
E. Double in and out, set and turn single. Repeat
D. Grand chain

And lastly Ducks' Ditty from the Wind in the Willows

All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall,
Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all!
Ducks' tails, drakes' tails, Yellow feet a-quiver,
Yellow bills all out of sight, Busy in the river!
Slushy green undergrowth, Where the roach swim—
Here we keep our larder, Cool and full and dim.
Everyone for what he likes! We like to be
Heads down, tails up, Dabbling free!
High in the blue above, Swifts whirl and call—
We are down a-dabbling, Up tails all!