Coconutters Easter Saturday procession
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The Coconutters Easter Saturday procession is a traditional folk dance parade in Bacup, Lancashire, featuring black-faced "Coconutters" performing through the town on Easter Saturday.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
annual event
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cultural heritage → folk dance tradition → parade → |
| alsoKnownAs |
Coconutters Easter Saturday procession
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surface form: "Bacup Coconut Dance procession"
Coconutters Easter Saturday procession →
surface form: "Bacup Coconutters Easter Saturday procession"
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| associatedWith |
Britannia Coconut Dancers
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surface form: "Bacup Coconut Dance"
Bacup Coconutters → |
| audience |
local community
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visitors and tourists → |
| country |
England
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United Kingdom → |
| culturalRegion | Rossendale Valley → |
| dressCode | distinctive Coconutters costume → |
| featuresActivity |
folk dance
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parade through the town → street procession → |
| frequency | annual → |
| hasCharacteristic |
accompanied by musicians
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black-faced dancers → processional dancing between pubs and landmarks → use of wooden discs or "coconuts" in the dance → |
| hasControversy | use of blackface makeup → |
| hasHistoricalContext | industrial and mining heritage of the area → |
| hasName | Coconutters Easter Saturday procession → |
| hasTemporalContext | Easter weekend → |
| hasTheme |
Easter celebration
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local working-class tradition → |
| location |
Bacup
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Lancashire → |
| mainParticipants | Coconutters → |
| occursOn | Easter Saturday → |
| purpose |
community celebration
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preservation of local folk dance → |
| recognizedAs | traditional English folk custom → |
| route | through the town of Bacup → |
| timeOfDay | daytime → |
| usesInstrument | wooden discs called coconuts → |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "Bacup Coconutters Easter Saturday procession"
this entity surface form: "Bacup Coconut Dance procession"
this entity surface form: "Bacup Easter Saturday procession"