#  Winter Solstice Night at the Museum & Revels' Headgear Gallery Performance (2011) 

 



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 **December 21, 2011** 

 05:00PM - 05:00PM EST 

 



 

A celebration of the winter solstice during extended hours at the museum. In collaboration with [The Christmas Revels](https://web.archive.org/web/20130304070238/http://www.revels.org/), the Pinewoods Morris Men performed the traditional Abbots Bromley Horn Dance in the museum's [Headgear: The Natural History of Horns and Antlers gallery](/headgear-natural-history-horns-and-antlers). The horn dance is the oldest known English ritual dance and features six human 'deer' with antlers weaving in and out in a hypnotic pattern to the sound of a haunting melody. Revels Artistic Director Patrick Swanson introduced the performance and David Coffin, a versatile musician and featured performer in his 32nd year with Revels, demonstrated horn-based musical instruments such as the gemshorns, the Pibcorn, and his ivory sopranino recorder



 

 



 

 

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