Various Older New Items

The latest news items moved from the home page are listed at the top

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• Links to images from the recent Helmond 75th Anniversary Ring Meeting: A local photographer; Dutch regional TV - YouTube; Exeter MM's page of pictures

• Manchester MM dancing the 'partners turn' figure from the Mossley dance during the procession at Knutsford Royal May Day 2009. These videos appeared on the web site during Spring 2010.

  Leyland MM dancing in the Knutsford Royal May Day 2009

• 100 years of Morris dancing in America, by Rhett Krause for CDSS (See Current Issue for pdf)
• BBC Audio Talk by Malcolm Taylor (EFDSS Vaughan Williams Librarian) and stills of Appalacian here The four diaries written by Cecil Sharp have been published online 150 years after his birth.
• Seeking morris dancers to feature at annual international festival June 14-19. You pay round trip airfare to Nashville, otherwise, all expenses provided. Steve Cates, Director. link Steve's email/phone from John M on request.
• Morris Shop: three new books, Mally Mallinson's Tin whistle & fiddler's tune books, a new T-shirt and even a Thaxted tea/coffee mug!
• "Kevin Passey, Squire of The Forest of Dean Morris Men, has recently returned from Peru, where he took part in a seven-day trek in the Andes to the ancient city of Machu Picchu." Read on ... morris dancer jigs at ancient site
• Pictures from the 319th Meeting of the Morris Ring in Exeter & even more! YouTube video of very thin Morris Men!
• Thousands watch Morris men pull rushcart & Saddleworth Rushcart sets off through Uppermill, jockey John Brooks
• So you think you can Dance? - but it does look as if there is any traditional dance involved!

• Pauliteiros de Palaçoulo - alias HQMM?

  
  
  
  See also: here, and Grupo de pauliteiros.

• Knotty on the Plinth!

  First a ... message from Knotty - Stafford MM's Horse. The link for Knotty's hour of glory is at http://www.oneandother.co.uk/participants/John_E_2
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Thanks Men of Wight A great weekend, especially the trip to Bramble Bank to dance! Photos and video HERE
  
• Living statues on Trafalgar Square plinth Patrick Purves, brother to Libby Purves, appeared at the ungodly hour of 4am as a Morris musician. Read Libby's article here. Video of Patrick HERE. Also see Libby here
  More morris dancing to come! Let us know.
  
• Congratulations to the Demon Barbers, they have a £35,000 Arts Council grant to create a brand new show in the spring: Yorkshire Post
  
  Great new site: HERE
  
  Live Music Licensing - NEW E-Petition
  
  Councils powerless to prevent surge in 'Table Morris Dancing' HERE.
  
  Two videos from YouTube:
  MORRIS VS RAVE and THE FIRST BRITISH MORRIS MAN IN SPACE....
  
• Now available as a web document:
  "The Morris Dancer Vol 4.1 2009 ON-LINE HERE!
  
  
• Morris Shop updated: DVD of Lionel Bacon's films. List HERE. Letchworth MM Dance Music CDs HERE
  
• London Pride History. Order Form HERE
  
• Pictures of the Littleborough Rushcart Morris Sides Report from Rochdale News Online here. See also report from Dunmow Broadcast Recorder  and the Herts & Essex Observer And the Thaxted Feast in the Church here for another slideshow!
  Thaxted 2009: "This is a lost part of what we once were, and who we still are" See the Thaxted Slideshow HERE.
  
• THE MAY DAY SLIDES HERE ... and a double dose of WMM! HERE
  
• Chippenham Festival Slides HERE
  
• Men of Wight, 22/23 Aug.
  The Exeter MM, Morris Ring Meeting 24/26th July, Photos HERE.
  
• Watch and listen to the magical Thaxted Horn Dance. Filmed by Ivor Allsop during the Morris Ring 75th anniversary celebration at Thaxted on Saturday May 30th 2009. now available via the Internet Archive.
• Ed Frost: Adderbury Village MM have a new CD:"Laugh, Dance & Sing" containing the songs and dances of the Adderbury Village tradition. Details HERE
• Morris: a Life with Bells on ... and now Morris Dancing is described as sexy ... BBC News! ... congratulations Bourne River! The film is a 'must see' with support that many a Hollywood film would die for! See Georgina Lester's Blog - comment and review (enthusiastic!) and links. Watch a trailer for this film, a summary of the situation so far is here

• Pictures of all Morris Ring Squires since 1934.

• MORRIS DANCING DECLINE! NEVER! Peter Milne's press collection rumbles on into March. This story must be nearly finished? You can view the way the story developed at sites.google.com/site/morrisex/, starting with Charlie's original press release in our Morris Ring Newsletter 59, Dec 2008. Ponder on the following news items: A Blog about George Butterworth by Robert, and Simon Pipe's article about Adderbury's 1912 morris dancing team
• The Norfolk Trunch tradition has been missing from this site for a year, I'm pleased to say that it has now been converted from TML to HTML. See and listen here Our thanks to Shakespeare Morris Men for supplying this invaluable part of the Archive.
• The 2008 CDSS Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Dr. Anthony G. (Tony) Barrand at an event held Saturday, March 28, 2009 in Brattleboro, VT at the Oak Grove School. See report. Congratulations Tony!
• Oxfordshire Morris - a living tradition. 3^rd March - 3^rd April. At the Bate Collection, Faculty of Music, St Aldgate's, Oxford. See Poster Here.
• Some more Morris Cousins - near Segovia this time, see Grupo de Danzas San Pedro de Gaíllos. They have contacted us, more later - maybe!
  Beastly Cousins! "Bestiari Festiv Europeu (1870-1970)" by Ramon Saumell is still available online.
• Tributes to Francis Shergold and to Sonny Towsend of Bampton, both morris men died during December. January 13th Guardian carries an obituary for Francis Shergold.
  Dennis Manners of Towersey Pillar of Towersey community dies.
• Chipping Campden MM : Countryside magazine. Matt Baker finds out about the role of Morris Dancing in the life of the Cotswolds. Open_Country_24_01_2009/ Chipping Campden MM and Dovers Hill - the first Olympics - Scuttlebrook Wake - interviews with the morris community from 6 to 60+. {24-1-2009}
• Dancers pay homage to war dead By Simon Pipe The deaths of four Oxfordshire morris dancers in the First World War are commemorated by a modern-day team in their village. I missed this BBC programme by Simon; you should read and listen!
• Jockey MM on BBC TV(25th March)
• Taking The Cultural Olympiad To The UK's Regions(3rd October 2007)
• Harthill Morris Stafford ring July 07 we apologise for the sound track!
• Take a look at John Hegley's view of the Morris; the pictures are from the recent Oxford Folk Festival; reported in the Guardian. See here
• The Fed now has a Blog, see http://morrisfed.org/mfblog/?p=1, Kevin Taylors wary comment "If it becomes a collecting ground for garbage, access will be made more restrictive." is certainly appropriate! Good luck, I have registered myself since I am member of the Fed. {John Maher 2/5/09}
• More old news here - includes videos and picture of Brian Tasker at Dartington, dancing-in as Squire of the Morris Ring