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HOUGHTON FEAST. AKA - "Hawton Feast." English, Jig. England, Northumberland. G Major or Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Another relative of 'Elsie Marley'" (Seattle). The name Houghton is Anglo-Saxon, meaning a village near a height.

Source for notated version: William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian music manuscript collection [Seattle].

Printed sources: Seattle (Great Northern/William Vickers), 1987, Part 2; No. 237.

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