The Morris Federation

The UK's largest association of morris and traditional dance teams

FedExtra

The quarterly newsletter of The Morris Federation

Our newsletter is a printed magazine that is part of the membership offer to both our team and individual members. It is published four times a year.

The deadline and publication dates for the printed copy are currently:

Winter: mid-December for end-January
Spring: mid-March for end-April
Summer: mid-June for end-July
Autumn: mid-September for end-October

Please note that the digital download version is not available at the same time as the printed copy, but is uploaded around two weeks after the printed copy has been received by our members.

To advertise in FedExtra, please download the advertising rates and templates and then contact Sam Ross (Newsletter editor).

Newsletter Autumn 2015

Amazing Headbangers and a Geometrical Hedgehog are just two of the more unusually titled articles in this edition of the newsletter. There are the regular features such as Paul White’s Diary and accounts of anniversaries and trips, and a return of the interview feature. Plus, a wealth of photographs – has your side been caught on camera? For anyone not yet booked into the Fools and Beasts Unconvention please note that there is a new contact address only in this on-line edition of the newsletter.

View and download: Newsletter Autumn 2015 (7Mb)

Contents:

  • Interview: Doug Eunson & Sarah Matthews
  • The Lost Art of Communication
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog,etc.
  • Paul White’s Diary
  • Bells, Broomsticks, One-pots & Tinners
  • Ossett Beer Cart on the Map
  • English Miscellany’s 40 for 40th
  • Bear With Me – It’s All for Charity
  • Cardiff Ladies Morris 1973 -2015
  • Amazing Headbangers
  • Ridgeway Boards
  • Obituary: Peter Wallis
  • The Geometrical Hedgehog
  • Evesham Weekend

Newsletter Summer 2015

The 40th anniversary of The Morris Federation features prominently in this issue, together with signficant anniversaries from other sides. Our Notation Officer describes how to access some of tremendous amount of material now available, and some of the tasks still to be undertaken. There’s also a good mix of interesting articles on a range of subjects – dancing for the internment of Richard III, a beer named after a morris side, a bureaucratic nightmare from Cyprus – and many more.

View and download: Newsletter Summer 2015 (5Mb)

Contents:

  • Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye
  • Panic, portaloos & primus stoves
  • Notation, notation, notation
  • Dancing for the dead king
  • So you think paperwork is onerous?
  • Heather and Gorse 30th anniversary
  • Sheffield City 40th anniversary
  • Paul White’s diary
  • Dancing in the May
  • JMO Statement of Purpose
  • Medusa’s 10th anniversary
  • Beer tasting fowl?
  • Green Willow support hospice
  • Review: Rag Bag morris dances

Newsletter Spring 2015

This year we celebrate the 40th year of The Morris Federation, so the main focus in this issue is on reflections back to earlier times. However, we also look to present day concerns such as health and safety, and to the future in using modern technology to improve availability of information about morris dancing in all its manifestations.

View and download: Newsletter Spring 2015 (4Mb)

Contents:

  • Health & Safety For The Federation
  • Morris Federation Agm 2015
  • Memories – Former President
  • Memories – Former Editor
  • Pateley Longsword
  • Poynton Jemmers At 40
  • A Wight Fifteenth Year
  • Tess Goldsmith – An Appreciation
  • Paul White’s Diary
  • In The Side Lines
  • The Early Days
  • Not Just For The Record
  • Under The Rose – Review
  • Belfagan’s Charities

Newsletter Winter 2014

When I see other teams dancing, at festivals or Morris Federation events, for example, the one thing which comes over very strongly is that the dancers almost always appear to be enjoying their dancing – and rightly so. Why else would we be doing it? The winter issue features many of the ways in which our members have got pleasure out of dancing and hopefully have given pleasure to the public in the audience. Preliminary results from Jack Worth’s Morris Census suggests that despite an ageing membership in some sides, there is also youth and vigour a-plenty.

View and download: Newsletter Winter 2014 (5Mb)

Contents:

  • Rhiannon, Rhian, Rhi – An Appreciation
  • Job Well Done
  • Branded Rabble Rousers
  • The Morris Census – Update
  • Ossett Beercart Festival
  • Ragged And Old At Thirty
  • English Miscellany Celebrates
  • Paul White’s Diary
  • The Making Of A Tradition
  • Redcaps In Prague
  • A Kirtlington Feast
  • The Last Pub In England
  • Too Old For Morris Dancing
  • AGM Day Of Dance Photo Gallery

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