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28 May 2020

Clog dancers unite online for mass performance

With their traditional May Bank Holiday event cancelled, Hadrian Clog decided they would still take the opportunity to dance together, if only virtually.

On Monday 25th May they  gathered online with friends from the clog dancing community to celebrate the summertime and the beginning of their season of dancing, bringing together as many clog dancers and musicians as possible to perform the well-known Sam Sherry Waltz.

What started as a few Hadrian Clog team members ended up as over 80 performers from all over the country, including musicians who play for dance teams joining in.

One keen clog dancer, stranded in New Zealand, even stayed up late into the night to join in the celebration.  In all there were dancers from over 20 clog teams, as well as several individual clog dancers, who performed first the Sam Sherry Waltz and then a selection of hornpipes.

The event gained coverage on both BBC Radio Newcastle and BBC Look North.

For anyone who wants to try and find themselves on the Zoom screens, or watch the interview on the BBC the dances are posted on the Hadrian Clog Facebook page @HadrianClog and also on their YouTube channel.

Find our more about Hadrian Clog from Hexham in Northumberland.

Filed Under: Current Members, News Tagged With: clog, dance, isolation, zoom

22 April 2016

Joint Morris Organisations’ Day of Dance 2016

The JMO Day of Dance is a collaborative event organised in turn by one of the three morris organisations in the UK – The Morris Federation, The Morris Ring, and Open Morris.

Each year the JMO Day of Dance is held in a different location. The three organisations rotate the organisation of the event with a member side offering to plan and host the day.

The day of dance is a celebration of morris and traditional dancing. Groups from the three organisations, and performing many different types of traditional dance, will be present in one location for one day only. This is probably the biggest annual gathering of morris dancers in the world.

This year’s host side Minster Strays were formed in 2003 by two couples wishing to dance mixed morris. They dance Cotswold and border morris and have a wide repertoire of dances including many in the border style that they have made up themselves.

Details of the day are available from the JMO Day of Dance website.

Tagged With: clog, day of dance, jmo, minster strays, morris, morris federation, morris ring, open morris, rapper, york

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    Saturday 6 March @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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    Sunday 7 March @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
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    Sunday 7 March @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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    Saturday 13 March @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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    Sunday 14 March @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

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