Workshop – How to Love Tunes you Hate!
Here is a review of our first instrument workshop covering loads of ways to take the most boring, old-hat, overplayed tunes … and kick them back into life! Will Allen’s talk ‘How to love tunes you hate’ was a difficult subject to put over to an audience with presumably varying abilities, but I reckon that most would have come away with at least some ideas providing food for thought; I certainly did.
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.
Liberation Lockdown in Guernsey
Are Belles and Broomsticks Morris in Guernsey the first morris side to dance out this season without having to social distance or follow any other restrictions? They gave us this […]
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 the Sailor’s Hornpipe
The third solo dance to be released in the ‘Isolation Instructionals’ series of videos made during the Covid-19 outbreak is a Sailor’s Hornpipe. It is danced and taught by Martyn […]
St George’s Day Lone Morris #StGeorgesLMF
Following the International success of the #LoneMorrisFestival on Sat 21st March 2020, it was repeated as the St George’s Day bash on Saturday 25th April 2020, being the nearest Saturday […]
Learn a solo North West Morris dance
The second solo dance to be released in the ‘Isolation Instructionals’ series of videos made during the Covid-19 outbreak is a dance in the North West style called Celebration. It […]
Warming Up and Cooling Down is important
Many of us know the importance of warming up before dancing and stretching and cooling down afterwards, but we don’t always do it, do we? Andrew Knight D.O. has kindly […]
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 […]
