Rochdale Coconut Dance

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This tune entered the repertoire of The New Victory Band some time in the 1980s and has a rather unclear provenance. Although there is a coconut dance in nearby Bacup, there is no evidence to suggest that a coconut dance ever existed in Rochdale. If not, where did the tune come from? It is likely that it came from the pen of some northern musician and found its way by stealth into the greater repertoire via NVB.


The band Bellowhead popularised the tune in 2004 but their version reverses the order of the A and B parts.

Hear it at....

Pete Cooper's web site

By Bellowhead at Celtic Connections (via YouTube)

By Will Fly on YouTube


Read....

An arranged version by the Dartington Morris Men

An ABC 'original' version