Summary: Vol. 21 Issue 2

Published: July 2002

Table of contents

• Bath City Morris and a fine pair of EARs 
• Sidmouth International Festival 2002
• The John Gasson Memorial Jig competition
• “Room, Room, Ladies and Gentlemen … an introduction to the English mummers play”
• Grandson of Morris On
• Long Lankin’s Beginners’ Guide to Folk Dance
• Towersey Village Festival
• Wantage Weekend 2002
• A New Reference to Morris Dancing at Spelshury?
• Direct Roots 1

Editorial

This year has been a funny one for weather – does your team have a strategy for winding up a dance if there’s a downpour once you’ve started? After Kirtlington we felt we should have one.

Fortunately when we danced on the Golden Jubilee day the weather held out for a long, long procession. We would otherwise have got very, very wet. [We did all take bin liners with us in case it rained early on, as we had rather a long wait before the procession started and nowhere to leave umbrellas or waterproofs] .