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Joint Morris Organisations’ Day of Dance 2021

Joint Morris Organisations’ Day of Dance 2021

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. The day of dance is a celebration of morris and traditional dancing held annually at a different location around the UK, in 2021 it will be in Liverpool.

The Joint Morris Organisations’ Day of Dance will take place on Saturday 17th April 2021 in Liverpool City Centre hosted by The Morris Ring in the North West.  This was postponed from 2020 due to the Coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak.

Registration (inc. collecting tin/info pack allocation) from 9.15am is at Liverpool Central Library, William Brown Street L3 8EW (just across the road from Liverpool Lime Street Station, right hand side of St Georges Hall) where visiting sides will find women’s and men’s changing facilities, toilets, secure storage and a cafe. Early arrivals will find lots of great places to breakfast within a few minutes walk, and the city is blessed throughout with a cornucopia of really fine pubs and eateries.

The event starts at 10am at Liverpool One’s Sugar House Steps (outside John Lewis) with a welcome from the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, and ends at 4pm with a centrally located closing ceremony.

More information will be added as it becomes available.

If your team would like to attend and is a member of The Morris Federation, please email: president@morrisfed.org.uk 
We look forward to seeing you there.

Joint Morris Organisations’ Day of Dance 2020 – #nogoJMO

Joint Morris Organisations’ Day of Dance 2020 – #nogoJMO

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. The day of dance is a celebration of morris and traditional dancing held annually at a different location around the UK, this year it will be in Liverpool. For more info click on the link below.

As a result of Coronavirus Covid 19, running the JMO DoD in Liverpool in 2020 became impractical, so the decision was made to postpone the event until Saturday 17th April 2021.

See the video of the teams who would have attended

See team photos and videos of the virtual event by searching for #nogoJMO

Joint Morris Organisations’ Day of Dance 2019

The Joint Morris Organisations’ Day of Dance will take place on Saturday 30th March 2019 in Manchester, hosted by Medlock Rapper on behalf of The Morris Federation.

 
The day will run alongside the launch weekend for Manchester Folk Festival, and will incorporate both a Morris tour and Rapper crawl in and around the centre of Manchester. The festival are organising a concert on the Saturday night for which participating teams will be able to purchase discounted tickets; further details will be published nearer the time.
 
If your team would like to attend then please complete the JMO DoD 2019 Application Form by 31st December 2018.
 
We look forward to seeing you there.

Joint Morris Organisatons’ Day of Dance 2018

The Joint Morris Organisatons’ 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 National 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.

Crosskey Clog (Open Morris) have offered to host the 2018 JMO National Day of Dance in Peterborough.

Further details to follow…

 

Joint Morris Organisations’ Day of Dance 2017

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.

2017’s host side Leicester Morrismen were formed in 1953, and initially met just to learn the dances, with an occasional demonstration. They perform Cotwold Morris in the summer, and Border Morris in the winter months under the guise of ‘Red Leicester’.

Further details to follow…

 

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