What’s on: MF talks Feb-Apr; bookings for DoD&AGM Shropshire 30th Sept; Hooden Horse and Folk Costume exhibitions Feb-June; EFDSS ‘Teaching Folk Dance in Schools’ 4th March; JMO 20th DoD dates.
MF Events – Online
February 2023
Talk – “Carnivals, Contests and Coronations, a social history of Morris Dancing in Trafford before the second world war”– Richard Nelson – Sat 25th February 16:00-17:30. Image: Linotype and Machinery Morris Dancers, 1930
More talks in March and April – see all our events at: MF Events
MF Events – Days of Dance
April 2023
JMO Day of Dance – Sat 22nd April 2023 in Exeter hosted by Beltane Border Morris on behalf of Open Morris. 35 teams booked so far – bookings still open. More info at: jmodayofdance.com
September 2023
MF Day of Dance and AGM – Sat 30th September 2023 in Shropshire hosted by Shropshire Bedlams & Martha Rhoden’s Tuppenny Dish. Bookings now open! More info and to book a place (for all or part of the weekend), see: sbmrtd.org.uk/fedagm/. See also their MF AGM 2023 Facebook page
September & October 2023 – JMO 20th Birthday – Regional Days of Dance to celebrate 20 years since the first national DoD in Trafalgar Square. Save the dates:
- Sat 9th September in Derby
- Sat 16th September in Norwich – bookings open
- Sat 23rd September in Chester
- Sat 7th October in Newcastle – bookings open
- Sat 7th October in Bath
- Dates TBC in mid-late October: London
The latest and correct list of our events is at: MF Events
Events from other organisations
Until April 2023
EFDSS – Vaughan Williams Memorial Lectures, January-April 2023
8th February – 17th June 2023
Animal Guising and the Kentish Hooden Horse !NEW! at Maidstone Museum says this exhibition unites Maidstone Museum’s two old Hooden Horses with their early surviving cousins; Morris Dancing revival horses; Northern skull horses; the Old Tup; Mari Lwyd; Obby Osses; and stag disguises. It explores the Christmas house-calling custom of Hoodening and its reinvention as Autohoodening, a new kind of folk performance about the precarity of contemporary seasonal working. Special performances on 1st April 10:00-15:30, free entry:- in the museum – the Whitstable Hoodeners and Dover Tales; in Fremlin Walk – Invictus Mugistis Equinus (IME) from the Broadstairs Folk Festival.
11th February – 11th June 2023
Making Mischief: Folk Costume in Britain !NEW! at Compton Verney in Warwickshire, says that it will be the first exhibition dedicated to the rich tapestry of folk customs found in the UK today. It will explore the central role played by costume in local and seasonal folk customs, bringing together over 40 costumes created, customised and worn by individual practitioners, many of which have never been exhibited before.
February to August 2023
Folk Camps
: share your expertise to teach others and give a few hours to help run the camp. The 2023 Folk Camps Programme is now out!
March 2023
Launching in Spring 2023
FolkScape Live – a new folk music streaming service
Anytime
EFDSS What’s On: https://www.efdss.org/whats-on
The Folk Forecast – a what’s on summary of folky events
Tradfolk – news and articles about folky things
Teaching Materials
John Sweeney (john@modernjive.com) of East Kent Morris sends us his newly-launched Cotswold Morris Dance Tutorial Videos, covering the basics and including tutorials on the styles of Adderbury, Badby, Bampton, Fieldtown, Ilmington, and Lichfield. See: http://contrafusion.co.uk/MorrisTutorial.html
He would love to hear from you if you find them useful.
In the media
Spoken Word
Tradfolk: Hear John Spiers on the Old Songs Podcast discussing the Morris tune ‘The Princess Royal’
TV & Video
Channel 5 Motorhoming with Merton & Webster, Season 2, Episode 2 In the Cotswolds featuring Sharp and Blunt Morris of Adderbury (60 mins, available for 3 years)
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