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SUMMARY:Workshops - Cotswold Morris for Beginners - Ilmington (LIVE on Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Recording of event\nThese workshops took place using the Zoom video service on 22 and 29 November and 6 December 2020. Recording of the events are available on YouTube: \n\nCotswold Morris Beginners Workshop 1 of 3 – Ilmington 22 November\nCotswold Morris Beginners Workshop 2 of 3 – Ilmington 29 November\nCotswold Morris Beginners Workshop 3 of 3 – Ilmington 6 December\n\nThree Workshops – Cotswold Morris for Beginners\n3 consecutive workshops.  Lin Steel and Andrew Knight\, with musician Tony Warren\, will teach a Cotswold morris jig (solo dance) over 3 weeks\, for those with some dance experience but that may be new to Cotswold morris.  The dance is ‘Jockey to the Fair’ in the style of Ilmington.  They will cover warming up\, Stepping\, Choruses and Slows; building to the complete jig in the third week. \nA series of 3 one hour teaching sessions (over Zoom) to build to the performing of the Ilmington Jig ‘Jockey to the Fair’.  A “from the ground up” set of instructionals\, each session will cover part of the Jig in some detail\, reprise the previous session and allow time to practice the elements from one week to the next with an MP3\, Music and Dance notation available. Pacing will be fast for beginners but slow for anyone with a measure of Cotswold experience.  No Cotswold Morris experience is needed to join us for these sessions\, but a desire to learn / better one’s technique / be able to learn from viewing on a screen is desirable.  The dates are: \nSunday 22nd November (week 1) / Sunday 29th November (week 2) / Sunday 6th December (week 3) \nYour hosts\nDance leaders – Lin Steel and Andrew Knight\, with Musician Tony Warren.  Lin has danced from early childhood and is a professional dance teacher with the RAD\, her Morris history starts with Border and she made the transition to Cotswold on moving to Somerset\, she has danced most genres of Morris.  Andrew is an Osteopath and has danced Morris for 25+ years almost exclusively Cotswold; both have been teachers/fore(wo)men and leaders/squires of several teams and both dance with multiple teams.  Andrew wrote the Warm up information 2nd edition for The Morris Federation. \nLin\, Andrew and Tony currently perform with the Knights of King Ina morris jig team\, based in Somerset (see more below). \nTo register\nPlease complete this online form: Register for the Workshops – Cotswold morris for beginners; you will receive a confirmation email immediately (check your spam/junk/promotions folder!).  We will send you a Zoom link a couple of days before the event.  Open to all – you don’t have to be a member of a team in The Morris Federation. \nOptional Donations\nDonations to Yeovil Freewheelers Blood Bikes: https://www.yfwbloodbikes.org/ \nResources\nHere are some resources for you: \n– Video: Andrew Knight dancing Ilmington – Jockie to the Fair on the King Ina YouTube Channel \n– Video: Warming up and Cooling Down for Morris Dancers  on the Morris Federation’s YouTube Channel \n– A folder containing: Dance Notation\, music dots and MP3 in the Morris Federation’s Notation Library \nKnights of King Ina\nSee the KOKI Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TheKnightsOfKingIna. \nKOKI – back in 2010 faced with the imminent demise (never happened) of a set team\, several people joined to study Jig dancing as a way of improving their dance and to avoid being reliant on large numbers to go to Festivals. That and there are not many Jig teams about – at the time we found 2 active and 2 inactive in the UK and another also just starting out like us. \nAt the outset we decided to avoid the inevitable provenance arguments about how its supposed to go and to revisit the – usually handwritten – first collection notes. Our re-interpretation of these is the same starting point that all the revivalists had (apart from those meeting the old dancers) any subsequent variation from first recorded is to suit the dance to us. \nOver the years from humble beginnings we have performed at many festivals\, won medals\, and given a workshop series twice a year in Somerset covering most of the traditions that have Jig dances in their repertoire. There is a notation series and music for all of these available free from us. We now have regular members from the South Coast to Herefordshire and meet regularly to practice (subject to legal restrictions!)\, members of the team have taught and performed in Europe and Australia and during Lockdown we developed a video set and notation for Ilmington teaching used internationally.
URL:https://www.morrisfed.org.uk/event/cotswold-morris-for-beginners-2020/
LOCATION:Online over Zoom
CATEGORIES:Morris Federation,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Demo - Rapper Sword making with Frank Lee (LIVE on Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Demo – Rapper Sword making with Frank Lee\nFor anyone curious about how rapper swords are made … Frank Lee reveals all from his workshop in Brampton\, Cumbria. \nFrank will explain the processes involved in making rapper swords\, the way he has made them since 1977\, and demonstrate them using video clips.  The processes will start from raw materials and work through to a finished product.  Frank will explain how the processes have evolved\, and mention alternative methods as he goes. \nYour host\nFrank was brought-up in the North-East\, where his forbears all worked in the shipbuilding and coal industries as blacksmiths and engineers.  His teaching job took him just over the county boundary into Cumbria\, but he learned his rapper dancing with Newcastle Morris Men in the Cumberland Arms\, Byker\, and his work as a swordsmith began after volunteering to repair their swords.  After finding a small supply of spring steel\, he then made a complete set of rappers from scratch for his own team in Carlisle.  As that team travelled to festivals\, interest grew in the rapper dance\, and then in obtaining rappers\, so Frank set about increasing production\, and has since made over 2\,500 rappers.  He has sent them to teams all over the world\, quite a substantial amount to the USA\, and more recently to China\, Taiwan and Japan.  He has also made many sets of longswords. \nFrank is a member of Carlisle Sword and Clog\, Hexham Morris\, Feet First Appalachian Cloggers\, and Flag and Bone Gang. \nSee his web site: http://www.rapper-swords.co.uk/ \nProgramme\nDemo and talk for just over an hour\, followed by Q&A. \nTo register\nPlease complete this online form: Register for the Demo – Rapper Sword making with Frank Lee; you will receive a confirmation email immediately (check your spam/junk/promotions folder!).  We will send you a Zoom link a couple of days before the event.  Open to all – you don’t have to be a member of a team in The Morris Federation. \nOptional Donations\nIf you enjoy this event\, then it would be wonderful if you could send a donation\, small or large\, to Halsway Manor\, National Centre for Folk Arts: halswaymanor.org.uk/support-us/donate
URL:https://www.morrisfed.org.uk/event/demo-rapper-sword-making-frank-lee/
LOCATION:Online over Zoom
CATEGORIES:Morris Federation,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Workshop - How to love tunes you hate! - Will Allen (LIVE on Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Workshop – How to love tunes you hate! – Will Allen\nIn this workshop we will go over loads of ways to take the most boring\, old-hat\, overplayed tunes … and kick them back into life!  We will hopefully see some tunes in a whole new light. \nSuitable for any standard morris instrument but particularly melodeons. \nThere will be plenty of time for Q&A. \nFeel free to bring your instrument and play along (while muted)\, or just watch. \nYour host\nWill Allen is the leader of Chiltern Hundreds Northwest Clog Morris and you may have also seen him playing for Tower Ravens Rapper\, Motley Morris and Kent Korkers & Pork Scratchin’s. \nWill is a professional melodeon and fiddle player.  He plays melodeon with Martin Clarke in the duo Brown Boots\, and plays melodeon and fiddle with the Urban Folk Theory ceilidh band\, in addition to many other collaborations. \nFollow him on Facebook at Will Allen Folk Musician (Facebook) or subscribe to Will Allen’s YouTube Channel. \nTo register\nPlease complete this online form: Register for the Workshop – How to love tunes you hate! – Will Allen; you will receive a confirmation email immediately (check your spam/junk/promotions folder!).  We will send you a Zoom link a couple of days before the event.  Open to all – you don’t have to be a member of a team in The Morris Federation. \nOptional Donations\nIf you enjoy this event\, then it would be wonderful if you could pop a few quid in Will Allen’s PayPal tip jar
URL:https://www.morrisfed.org.uk/event/workshop-how-to-love-tunes-you-hate/
LOCATION:Online over Zoom
CATEGORIES:Morris Federation,Workshop
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