Boxing
day at Bottesford - some
unedited photos here! - thanks to Janet & Bob for the photos,
others welcome.
Solstice
event - some
unedited photos here!
The event was held
on Saturday 13th December at the Catholic Cathedral church hall. See
a revised (Monday 8th) PDF file of the programme here.
Posters (revised Monday 8th) for the solstice in PDF here
, and carol sheets here.
Recent
photos
For some photos
of Winter's celebrations of 100 years since Cecil Sharpe's visit, see
here.
For details of
our programme of bookings, see here.
The
Foresters Morris and Sword Dancing Club
The Foresters
Morris Men (full title "The Foresters Morris and Sword Dancing Club")
are based in Nottingham in the UK, near to Sherwood Forest, and so we
have Robin Hood as our logo. The club was formed in 1952, and was the
first side in Nottingham. It is still the best. It was formed from the
demise of other sides in nearby towns, which had been in existence in
the 1930s, and was kept going by ladies such as Frances Downing during
the war years.
We practise at
the Queen's
Walk Community Centre in the Meadows area of Nottingham on Monday
nights, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., then socialise over a drink! New members
are always welcome, contact any member.
We dance mainly
morris from the Cotswold and border regions, together with some Lichfield
dances. At appropriate times of year we perform a traditional local
Plough Play (a type of mummer's play, see photos
and sound). We also include rapper sword dancing in our repertoire.
When we dance
the Morris, we are accompanied by our Fool.
Recent
photographs
I'm in the process
of setting up a history page and have added
some new photos to the historic
photo album.
Old photos.
I'm gradually getting them all sorted as below.
Morris
dancing background information
You can read some
of our handouts of background information
or more background information or still
more on morris dancing. Or would you like the French
versions of these documents? Or
for a more sober and serious view of the whole thing you can look at
a BBC programme transcript.
See also the
UK morris
& folk page , the Webfeet : Dancing
on the Web page, and the Vaughan
Williams Memorial Library .
I've also added
to this site some photographs of Cecil
Sharp's original wooden 3-hole pipe, made to a special order for
Sharp by Dolmetsch in the 1920s. When I showed the pipe to Carl Dolmetsch
in the 70s, he said "Oh that one, that was a special. The name
was Sharp. I made six of them for him."
Useful downloads
for members are on a new member's page.
Foresters
Morris Men support the Mallard brewery
Every pint a winner
