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We're back — the Binghamton Morris Men danced at Binghamton First Friday for the first time since pre pandemic. With, as always, the B. F. Harridans. A fine night out.

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Photos from the 2025 Marlboro Morris Ale:

https://www.richholmes.xyz/photos/index.php?/category/40

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Fiftieth Marlboro

A morris ale that keeps on going

https://www.richholmes.xyz/doctroid/2025-05-26_fiftieth-marlboro/

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The 50th Marlboro Morris Ale is over. I attended as an ersatz Bouwerie Boys Morris Dancer. It rained most of the weekend, though rarely more hard than a sprinkle and it didn't stop any dancing. Great Western Morris was there from England and putting on a fine show. Saw numerous old friends including at least one I haven't seen in a quarter century or so. And newer friends too of course.

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@deborahh These guys apparently had the same reaction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj9PuZXa9Is

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Decades of anticipation finally pay off: The #BinghamtonMorrisMen have a YouTube channel!

https://www.youtube.com/@BinghamtonMorrisMen

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Fabulous dancing from Bernard of Buxton Mountain Rescue!

Feels like we have danced a LOT this past week-and-a-bit, and there's more to come! Powderkegs will be at The Cock in Whaley Bridge tonight, then on Saturday we'll be at Holmfirth festival!

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Also almost a week late posting this, but here's some dancing up the sun on 1st of May with Powderkegs.

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The American Travelling Morrice has a YouTube channel now!

https://www.youtube.com/@AmericanTravellingMorrice

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Newtowne Morris Men dance "Upton Hankie Dance"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92axMF2DAUA

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Newtowne Morris Men dance "Old Tom of Oxford"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvWdNSkRCYo

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Binghamton Morris Men dance "Trunkles"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emz91y4vnO0

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Yes, I'm late posting these, but here's some of my favourite pictures my partner took at the JMO Day of Dance in Stockport last weekend. Fantastic day!

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Powderkegs walking through an indoor shopping centre, in front of the Pandora shop. They wear jackets with long tatters, strips of fabric in red, orange, yellow and black, over black shirts and trousers. They wear bell pads on their legs with short tatters, and black top hats decorated with different items including ribbons, flowers and feathers. Their faces are painted in designs in the same colours as their jackets.

Morris dancers parading through a town centre street lined with shops. Cotswold dancers in white shirts and colourful baldricks wave white hankies as they dance. Powderkegs walk behind.

Four Powderkegs dancers in the road, two throw their sticks to each other and the other two tap the bottom of their sticks on the floor. Three musicians stand to the right on the pavement. On the opposite side, a line of people stand watching.

Me and another member of Powderkegs. I am holding my stick up horizontally as she clashes her stick at the centre of mine. We are both laughing.

There's reasons to think some features of the Cotswold style of morris dancing were adopted in the 18th century from another style, Bedlam morris, now nonexistent.

There's even a hint that these or other features may have been brought to the Cotswold morris region by a single family from the Forest of Dean, whose indigenous morris style also has since vanished.

I find this sort of thing far more fascinating and evocative than the old "pagan fertility rite" canard.

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The #JukeboxFridayNight theme is #MayDayMusic and when I think of May Day I think of church fetes and Morris dancing and that means another excuse to put up Apparition by Stealing Sheep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFWGrNR_mog

A fabulously surreal and clever video, and the first Morris dancer you see stepping over the broom is Rob from Abingdon Traditional Morris, who's also the cousin of both my wife and of @mathzy.

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It's still, just about, the 1st of May. Big day for morris dancers, and sees the back of "autism awareness month" when we spend the entire time avoiding "I love someone with autism" posts...so, seems a good time to share this!

After *several* months of getting it together, you can finally see Changeling Morris dance "Much Wenlock (variations on a theme)", and learn how the project came together.

Full video: https://vimeo.com/1080549137

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