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+====== THE ASHFORD ASSEMBLY ======
+Dance and Music: Colin Hume.\\
+Three couples longways, second improper.\\
+Tune: THE ASHFORD ASSEMBLY
+<code>
+First figure:
+Al 10 bars Up a double and back (4 bars). All right-hand turn three-quarters (into line),
+           those who can left-hand turn half-way (into line), all right-hand turn a
+           quarter and face this new partner (6 bars).
+A2 10 bars Down a double and back. Left-hand turn three-quarters, right half-way, left
+           a quarter.
+Bl 10 bars Top couple cast into middle place, cross over and go down the outside to bottom
+           place (6 bars). They do a two-hand turn while the others do two changes of a
+           circular hey without hands (4 bars).
+B2 10 bars New top couple cast, all follow to invert the set, cross over and face (6 bars)
+           Fall back a double without hands; come forward (4 bars).
+Second figure: Siding, etc.
+Third figure: Arming, etc.</code>
+Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWPsp_D3jO0&t=47s\\
+Written for the Ashford Folk Dancers (Middlesex, not Kent), who have known us for some time
+and still book us. I borrowed the "right-hand turn three-quarters, left-hand turn half-way"
+movement from Western American square dancing, where it is known as a Swing Through.

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