The team takes its name from the towns of Poughkeepsie, Kingston and Millbrook, located in the Hudson River valley about 100 miles north of New York City. 
 

Pokingbrook was born in 1975 from the efforts of a dedicated group of musicians and folk artists who benefited from experiences at Pinewoods Camp of the Country Dance and Song Society (CDSS) and the Fox Hollow Folk Festival in eastern New York State.

Pokingbrook's present home is in Albany, otherwise known as the Capital Region of New York State. Members live and work in and around Albany, but some come from as far south as Hudson and Pine Plains and as far north as Salem (both distances are over an hour's drive away). The team started dancing in 1975, and has been dancing ever since at community events throughout each spring and early summer. Pokingbrook starts its main dancing season at dawn on May Day, May 1st, each year with a performance in Washington Park in Albany at the Moses statue. We also dance in the fall and winter, featuring such other English dance traditions as Border Morris, the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, and longsword dancing.