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Joint Morris Organisations’ National Day of Dance 2020

The Joint Morris Organisations’ National Day of Dance will take place on Saturday 18th April 2020 in Liverpool City Centre hosted by The Morris Ring in the North West.

The event starts at 10am at Liverpool One’s Sugar House Steps with a welcome from the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, and ends at 4pm with a centrally located closing ceremony. Registration (inc. collecting tin/info pack allocation) from 9.15am is at Liverpool Central Library, William Brown Street L3 8EW, 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. 

More information will be added as it becomes available, and the draft schedule should be available by the end of February.  See: themorrisring.org/event/joint-morris-organisations-national-day-dance-2020

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.

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Joint Morris Organisations National Day of Dance 2019

The Joint Morris Organisations National 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 NDoD 2019 Application Form by 31st December.
 
We look forward to seeing you there.

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JMO National Day of Dance 2018

The JMO National 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…

 

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JMO National Day of Dance 2017

The JMO National 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.

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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JMO National Day of Dance 2016

The JMO National 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.

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 National Day of Dance website.

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