Rickett's Hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Ricketts' Hornpipe", also known as "The Aldridge Hornpipe",<br> "The Manchester Hornpipe", "The Spanish Hornpipe", "The Wrexham Hornpipe"<br> and other names. It is known in both the British Isles and America.<br> It has been printed in O'Neill's Music of Ireland, O'Neill's The Dance<br> Music of Ireland - 1001 Gems, One Thousand Fiddle Tunes and other<br> collections of Irish tunes.<br> John Bill Ricketts was an early circus entrepreneur who brought a circus<br> from England to America in the last decade of the eighteenth century.<br> Circuses in an earlier era usually included fancy dancing, and the circuses<br> of Ricketts included dancers such as Pennsylvanian John Durang, who became<br> famous in early America. Both Ricketts and Durang had hornpipes named for<br> them that have endured in American tradition, in both the North and the South,<br> through the twentieth century.<br> "Fair Morning Hornpipe" is a West Virginia variation of "Ricketts' Hornpipe".<br>
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