Rich Holmes
Rich HolmesBouwerie Boys Morris Dancers perform "Boys of the Bunch" in Cooperstown, NY on the 2024 Gilbertsville Tour.
The 2026 tour begins in a week!
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michaelsecond upload of #OxfordFolkFestival photos now on #flickr, featuring the #ChelmsfordLadies Morris side. I do love their colours. https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelgrr/55204681639/in/dateposted-public/ #oxford #folk #morrisDance
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Last year at Gilbertsville: The Binghamton Morris Men perform "John Peel" outside the Major's Inn.
The 2026 Gilbertsville Tour is just under two weeks away!
Saturday April 25:
10:30 AM Commercial Street, Gilbertsville, NY
12:30 PM Pathfinder Village, Edmeston, NY
3:15 PM Pioneer Park, Cooperstown, NY
4:45 PM (approx.) Council Rock Brewery, Cooperstown, NY
Sunday April 26:
12:00 Noon Commercial Street, Gilbertsville, NY
Postering crew at work.
In two weeks we dance!
#morrisDance #morrisDancing #folkDance #folkDancing #Binghamton #BinghamtonNY
OccasionalDucksIn other news, I’m off to Cambridge for a day’s morris dancing with Red Cuthbert today - we’ll be at the Cambridge Blue at 2pm, the Free Press at 3 and the Mill at 4.
https://redcuthbert.uk/event/cambridge-tour
(And yes if you follow the link the poster should say “is” not “are” but I’m not the one who does that stuff any more so don’t blame me!)
Poster by Peter Klosky
#morrisDance #morrisDancing #folkDance #folkDancing #Gilbertsville #OtsegoCounty #Cooperstown #Edmeston
Good night at the Insomaniacs Ball - we didn’t stick it out to the bitter end as I’d hoped we would, but left some time around 1am, as not only were our dancers tiring (and busking nearly everything as there’s very little Cotswold we actually know!) but the numbers were thinning (probably 2/3 of the proper Cotswold dancers left before us) as a hard core settled into grind out the more obscure dances until dawn, and most of the musicians had left too so we were being asked to play things we didn’t know and then having to scratch around for someone who did. At that point discretion seemed the better part of valour.
Definitely a fun experience, and good for my “playing along quietly with things I don’t really know” skills.
While we only stayed a couple of hours later than most ales, it felt a bit different and if your a morris dancer wishing striking distance of Long Clawson and haven’t been you should certainly consider giving it a go.
Mild disappointment that the excellent cheese board didn’t include Long Clawson cheese though. :-P
About half an hour until we leave for the Insomaniacs Ball - because what better than an all-night session of Cotswold morris when you, um, barely dance/play any Cotswold? Fingers crossed it is going to be #Epic!
soaproot@croy The piano weighs a lot more too (not that I tried to calculate a ratio, just that I've often seen a penny whistle taken to street #MorrisDance performances but I have yet to see someone with a grand piano there).