Traditional Morris Events: Whitsun

Events Diary


25/05/12	Cotswold Olympic Morris Meeting, hosted by Chipping Campden MM
8/06/12	Annual Thaxted meeting, hosted by Thaxted MM
30/06/12	Dancing With Will - JMO Day of Dance Stratford upon Avon
13/07/12	Letchworth MM 90th Anniversary Meeting
24/08/12	The Saddleworth Rushcart 2012
31/08/12	Hartley MM 60th Anniversary Morris Meeting
2/11/12	The Annual Fools and Beasts Unconvention 2012
2/03/13	ARM Hosted by Whitchurch (TBC)
5/04/13	The Inaugural Adelaide Ring Meeting
31/05/13	Annual Thaxted meeting, hosted by Thaxted MM

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Traditional Morris Events: Whitsun

To a great extent the majority of traditional Whitsuntide events have migrated to the Late Spring Bank Holiday at the end of May. Pentecost or Whitsun is observed on the seventh Sunday after Easter. {The Greek "pentekoste" meaning the fiftieth day after Easter} Whit Sunday commemorates the coming of the Holy Spirit in the form of flames to the Apostles, as recorded in the New Testament. The recent adoption of a late Spring Bank Holiday on the last Monday in May attempts to deal with the fact that Whitsuntide is a moveable feast dependent on the date of Easter. Thus the Whit Monday holiday is no longer necessarily at the church's Whitsuntide. As always, check for the actual date of the event.

Bampton MM: Spring Bank Holiday Monday - Bampton, Oxfordshire. All three of the Bampton sides tour separately round the gardens of the 'Big Houses' and pubs starting early in the morning. They are joined by guest sides in the evening. [The picture opposite is a broom dance by one of the Traditional Bampton Morris Dancers].
East Suffolk MM: Spring Bank Holiday Monday - Tour of Long Melford, Lavenham and Brent Eleigh.
Gloucestershire MM: Spring Bank Holiday - Cotswold tour. Dancing in Winchcombe, Broadway, Chipping Campden, Moreton in Marsh and Stow on the Wold plus a few other venues which vary from year to year.
Headington Quarry MM: Spring Bank Holiday Monday - Headington, Oxfordshire.
Helier MM: (Jersey) - Spring Bank Holiday Weekend - Annual Ale with Guest Sides.
Leeds MM: Spring Bank Holiday Weekend - Tour of the Dales. Based in Wharfedale, but including Airedale, Ribblesdale and Wensleydale (2012 is the 60th anniversary).
Lichfield Greenhill Bower Procession: Spring Bank Holiday Monday - Lichfield, Staffordshire. Procession is led by Green Man's MM, see their website for more information.
Scuttlebrook Wake: usually the Saturday after Spring Bank Holiday - Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, with Chipping Campden MM. The Wakes are held the week after the Cotswold Olimpick Games.
Kirtlington Lamb Ale: Usually the weekend of Trinity Sunday (56 days after Easter Sunday) - See Kirtlington MM's website for actual dates.