Stick Coppicing and Cotswold Morris Music – Website Updates

We have recently updated our website and are pleased to bring you information on the origins of Cotswold music and on stick coppicing. 

Stick Coppicing - How to cut your own sticks!

Have you recently been volunteered as the stick person for your team, but are feeling unsure about how to source, cut and season your sticks? If so, check out the link below to our brand new page of guidance provided by woodland owners and morris dancers Ellie Duncan and Adrian Pitt.

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Days of Dance!

A quick reminder of our 50th Anniversary Days of Dance this year with booking deadlines: 

  • Exmouth – Sat 19th July – MF 50th DoD
  • Stoke-on-Trent – Sat 6th September – MF 50th DoD
  • Sheffield – Sat 27th September – MF AGM and 50th DoD and weekend activities – book by 15th May
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Gwilym Davies Digital Thesis - Now available to read online!

We have recently updated our Publications section of the website and are pleased to bring you the following:

Title: The Music Tells You – The Origins of Cotswold Morris Music
Author: Gwilym Davies


A thesis originally submitted to Newcastle University as ‘Pipe and Tabor in Cotswold Morris’ in partial fulfilment for the degree of MPhil, this page provides access to an important work regarding Cotswold Morris tunes, created by the late Gwilym Davies and provided by Carol Davies, who has requested that the thesis and related resources be made widely available.

Click the button below to read the full document:

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