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The online newspaper for the Capering Classes. News about Morris and related folk activities.
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Shave The Donkey Rogers all rights reserved ISSN 1470-7306...These chaps claim to make, collect and preserve recordings of the dance tunes and songs that are commonly heard in connection with the traditional English dance.
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English Folk Dance Music Project Welcome to the official website of The English Folk Dance Project An ongoing project instigated in 2001 to capture the music and atmosphere of English folk dancing at the start of the 21st century. Project: About the project Contacts Supporters...One of the first local directories of Morris Dance teams and their specialities.
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Bay Area Morris Teams Ringers typically forms at Halloween and dances Duns Tew in SF This list is incomplete. Many of these teams share members with each other. Additional info and corrections welcome. I have contact information for some of these teams. Some of...Scanned pages from Walford's Antiquarian, 1886.
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Early Morris Morris Dancing May-day Games Walford's Antiquarian Magazine 1886 Scans of text Walfords_Jan_Jun_1886 Walfords_Jan_Jun_1886_p195 Walfords_Jan_Jun_1886_p196 Walfords_Jan_Jun_1886_p197 Walfords_Jan_Jun_1886_p198 Walfords_Jan_Jun_1886_p199 Walfords_Jan_Jun_1886_p200 Walfords_Jan_Jun_1886_p201 Walfords_Jan_Jun_1886_p202 Walfords_Jan_Jun_1886_p203 Walfords_Jan_Jun_1886_p204 Top Email: Chris Brady No. of visitors since 20-10-99 211 Site last modified: June 12, 2002 Chris Brady...Find contact details for all sides in a specific area by clicking on a map of the UK.
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SideFinder How to find morris dancers in your area How to find morris dancers in your area To find the nearest Morris Dancers to any location, first click on the map in the approximate location you want information for. You will be taken to a second map where you...A brief article discussing the history of Morris Dancing.
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Morris dancing meant different things to different social groups, and its meaning and usage has altered over time Chandler, Keith Ribbons, Bells and Squeaking Fiddles Wiltshire, England: Dotesios Ltd 1993 This statement is true for all art forms but especially...Occurs every May over the Early May Bank Holiday weekend. Features Folk Music, Ceilidhs, Morris Dancers, Giants, and the Jack in the Green.
http://www.jack-in-the-green.co.uk
One of the three umbrella organisations for morris sides in the UK. Site contains contact details, member directory and details of events organised by the federations.
http://www.morrisfed.org/mf/home.html
Factsheet from a BBC Radio broadcast by Alun Howkins on the origins of Morris Dance.
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BBC Beyond the Broadcast Making History Choose a category an error occurred while processing this directive] For information about obtaining this factsheet in other formats, click here. Making History main page General history links Family and local history books Subject index Making History Morris dancing 150;...Contact details, photographs and amusing member biographies of this groups of 'Sand-Dancers from tropical Kent'. Site also contains details of their annual Fig and Date Fayre.
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THE FABULOUS FEZHEADS S an oasis in the desert of the web The Fabulous Fezheads are England's Premier Sand Dance Vaudevillian Illusionists carrying on in the tradition of Old ‘Blind Ned’ Cleggett with his famous stage act of the 1920’s and 30's, and...Description of this very modern side who have created a new style based on the so-called 'Forgotten Morris' From Yorkshire.
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Flag and Bone Gang There have been many exciting developments during the more recent years of the morris dance revival, no doubt driven by a number of differing desires: to retain the best of traditional practise to find and revive a tradition belonging to...Contact details, history, photographs, and details of future performances of The Langsett Fox Dance. An unusual side from South Yorkshire who dance only at night, and often unannounced.
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Here Comes Mr. Fox Here Comes Mr. Fox http mr-fox.org.uk/...Historical account of Will Kemp's marathon jig from London to Norwich.
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Kemps nine daies wonder. 1600 Editions text was transcribed by R.S. Bear, July 2000, from the Bodley Head reprint of 1923. The source text is that in the Bodleian Library, Art. 4o. L. 62; misprint corrections by G. B. Harrison in 1923 have been retained....List of sides in New England, USA.
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NEFFA LinkFest: Teams Music and bouncing hummingbirds! MA Juggler's Meadow Morris Men Amherst MA Newtowne Morris Men Medford MA Pinewoods Morris Men Acton MA Red Herring Morris Belmont MA Rose Galliard Northwest Morris Bolton MA Wake Robin Morris Western Mass. MA and NH...The national association of men's Morris and Sword Dance clubs. Details of membership, events and links to member sides.
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The Morris Ring Home Page Association of two hundred dance clubs sides. To contact us use this Form. To find a nearby Morris Side use the SideFinder Click Map. We organise four or five Ring Meetings each year for our members. The 305th meeting was...Transcripts and scanned copies of some of the early C20 collectors notes.
http://tradcap.crosswinds.net/
Contact details, history and photographs of this unique traditional men's side from Bacup, Lancashire.
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The Britannia Coco-nut Dancers of Bacup. On the following pages you will find everything you ever wanted to know about the Nutters from their History to the present day, including a full colour Photograph Gallery. Emphasis must be placed on the fact that everything said in...One of the three umbrella organisations for morris sides.
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Open Morris Home Page Comments or suggestions to:jlw1002@cus.cam.ac.uk What we stand for Morris dancing for all! Open Morris is open to any group or individual involved in the performance of Morris Dancing or allied activities. All sides are welcome mixed, male or female, as...List of sides in New Zealand.
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nzmorrisdancing Helpnzmorrisdancingnzmorrisdancing@groups.msn.com What's New Join Now PicturesTour registrationTourEventsSidesWhat is it?History in NZLost Property DocumentsMessagesChatLinks Tools Recommend This Group to a Friend New Zealand Morris Dancing News The tour details are available at the Tour page. To register go to the Tour...A forum for people who are associated with morris dancing but who play parts other than dancers and musicians. i.e. Characters, Animals, and Fools.
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Morris Cafe Title Page A site for Characters, Animals, Fools, tc in the Morris. Free Url Redirection and Unlimited E-mail Addresses from HotRedirect.com You are visitor number Amazing, isn't it...Comprehensive list of links to all known morris sides and related websites.
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Mainly Morris Dancing This site is not quite finished John DedicationTo Christoffer Carstanajen and Steve Adams Morris Men killed on 9/11 WAR BEGETS WAR war, lies, torture and imprisonment without trial is not the way to make this planet a safer place or...History and description with photographs of one of the earliest representations of English Morris Dancers.
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Betley Window and its copies These pages of our website discuss everything you ever wanted to know about The Betley Window and its copies and probably more! I hope you will dip into the bits that interest you most, or perhaps follow the suggested Guided...A list of morris and sword groups around the world, with information on the gender and style of dance as well as contact details.
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Alphabetic List of Morris Dance Sword Dance Sides This page is a catalog of information about sides (teams) that perform morris, sword, and other related English performance-oriented folk dance styles. This page is the morris section of: The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Dance which is, as the title...General information on morris dancing with photographs and details of some particular sides in Leicestershire.
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Martin's Morris Dancing Page. Teams can be found all over Great Britain and many new teams have been found in Canada, U.S.A Hong Kong and Australia. Many people would recognise this essentially English tradition but what exactly is it? It's origins are vague, and...Spoof morris origin theories. Each time you go to this page you get a different explanation/theory as to the origins of morris dancing.
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The Origin of the Morris To truly understand the origin of the morris, please enable Javascript in your browser and reload this page If you do have Javascript enabled, your browser should automatically load another page Thanks to the Crows Free JavaScript Examples site and...Contact details, photographs and event list of this side from Boston, Massachusetts. Description of the 'Anti-Morris' based upon writings of Terry Pratchett.
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Recently Traditional Fictional Morris M are a group of morris dancers who perform the other dance (as described by Terry Pratchett in Reaper Man) each year in the fall. This page has been requested times since the counter was instantiated on October 24, 2002....History, contact details, photographs and event list of this mixed side from Retford, Nottinghamshire.
http://www.rattlejagmorris.org.uk//
Notes on the numerous boolets, lectures and articles produced by Roy over the years on cotswold and border morris dancing.
http://www.opread.force9.co.uk/RoyDommet/
Entertaining and informative article on this nineteenth century morris dancer and fool.
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Old Mettle One truism of research is that individual members of the working class rarely leave much of a mark on the pages of history; and the farther back in time, the less possible it becomes to flesh out such lives. A...History, contact details, photographs and event list of this mixed side from Retford, Nottinghamshire.
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Rattlejag Morris Side Please click the link below Rattlejag Morris Side Title Rattlejag Morris Side Description Rattlejag is a mixed Morris dancing side from Retford, Nottinghamshire. This site contains information about our programme, history, dances, music and photographs. Keywords rattlejag,morris,retford,broadstone,folk,notts,nottinghamshire,dance,music,traditional,reviving...Email group for all things related to morris dancing, mummers plays, and other traditional activities. Contains subscription instructions, FAQ, and links to the archives.
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Morris Dancing Discussion List: Welcome Mumming plays and other ritual drama; Molly Dancing, Abbots Bromley, Plough Dancing; winter festivals such as Wassailing, Caroling and Twelfth Night; May Day celebrations, including May Poles and other rural festivities; and anything else we can think of that might...Various articles on the subject including historical and literary references, some humorous fictional origin theories, a 'normal person's guide', and dance notes for a number of border dances. The site also is home of DOOMD - The Directory Of Online Morris Dancers which lists personal details of numerous individual dancers from around the world and their affiliations. Also Morris Links - a list of links to 'all known morris related websites' categorised regionally (by county for the UK and by state for the US).
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Rich Holmes's Morris Site A great photo of a great morris team the Commonwealth Morris Men, photographed by Debbie Lewis. This is Rich Holmes's contribution to the ever-increasing genre of morris dancing related sites on the WWW: A collection of stuff having to do...Contact details, events list, photographs, and some details of the dances for this side from Wellington in New Zealand. Also history and details of other groups in New Zealand.
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nzmorrisdancing Helpnzmorrisdancingnzmorrisdancing@groups.msn.com What's New Join Now PicturesTour registrationTourEventsSidesBedlam White Rose What is it?History in NZLost Property DocumentsMessagesChatLinks Tools Britannic Bedlam Morris Gentlemen Morris Dancing side located in Wellington, New Zealand Based originally upon that of Headington Quarry, our tradition has evolved...Transcripts and scanned copies of some of the early C20 collectors notes.
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