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 […]
Cotswold for Beginners Workshops online

Here is a review of our first Cotswold Morris workshop held over 3 weeks, for participants to learn ‘Jockey to the Fair’ in the style of Ilmington.
Morris in the Museum in Bedford

It is not often Morris dancing can be said to have made history but Redbornstoke Morris (1976-2018) and Bedfordshire Lace Morris (1981-2016) are the focus of a new display at The Higgins Museum in Bedford.
Zooming up the Sun

May Day is a popular day for Morris dancing, as a start to the morris ‘season’ of performing, rather than practising. Some teams get up and ‘dance up the sun’ […]
Learn a morris jig

While morris dancers are self-isolating during the Covid-19 outbreak, The Morris Federation has asked several jig dancers up and down the country to video themselves teaching a morris jig so […]
New teams in Ripon and Newcastle

New Rapper and Morris dancing teams established in Ripon and Newcastle – Ripon Spur Rapper and Black Gate Morris
New team in Darlington

A relatively new team in Darlington has started, called Black Diamond Mixed Cotswold Morris
Mastering Performance Workshop Weekend

Mastering Performance Workshop Weekend – what’s it all about? The purpose of the weekend is to offer ideas and advice to teams wanting to improve their standard of dancing and […]