Depending on the programs purpose and musical selection,The Rogues appear attired in either 18th or 19th Century
clothng of the two periods,adding to the color
Sailor’s Hornpipe
Beginning in the 16th C., British sailors need a means to exercise solo and in cramped quarters. The hornpipe/dance became the medium and this tune the mechanism. In classic 4/4 time, Samuel Pepys mentioned it in his diary as “Jig of the Ship” and by 1797 as “College Hornpipe” and “Jack’s the Lad.” Most popularly played on a whistle or a squeezebox, John Philip Sousa incorporated it into his “Jack Tar March” and in the
