Rich HolmesPoster by Peter Klosky
#morrisDance #morrisDancing #folkDance #folkDancing #Gilbertsville #OtsegoCounty #Cooperstown #Edmeston
Glen L CreasyWassailing, which I always associated with spiced hard cider and Christmas carols, turns out (also) to be a pagan fertility rite focussing on fruit trees, which is gaining in popularity!
Inside Europe did a story on this the week before last (starts at 48:15)...
https://www.dw.com/en/more-trouble-for-uk-prime-minister-keir-starmer/audio-76057779
More detail on the celebration here
https://www.discoverbritain.com/history/traditions/wassailing/
More trouble for UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer?
A UK by-election that could spell trouble for Prime Minister Keir Starmer, a wrap-up of the Munich Security Conference, a look at the Berlinale and whether it’s still political, and France’s last newspaper hawker. Then: efforts to rebuild Aghdam, US trans people seeking asylum in the Netherlands, and a pagan tradition seeing a revival — wassailing. + film.macht.kritisch https://shorturl.at/OTkz1 +
soaproot@mair There's a musician on my #morrisDancing team that plays a concert flute (in addition to other people who play six hole flutes, pennywhistles, and other instruments).
OccasionalDucksGood 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!
Aaron BroadhurstPensans Morris dancing on the threshold of the Other World.
Liminal.
In Penwith you get used to seeing people dissolving into their daemons or the other way round.
Not just for summer and not for the faint-hearted.
#FolkMusic #FolkTraditions #MorrisDancing #Cornwall #Penwith
@RobJLow @phonner I discovered just recently that there's one difficult bit in one of our #MorrisDancing tunes I always rush (and more to the point, it is way too fast for the dancers). A nice revelation because it doesn't seem like quite as much of a difficult bit once I slow it down to a good dance tempo.
Nicky Roscoe-CalvertReally pleased that Powderkegs could take part in the New Mills Wassail this year. This was last weekend and was a lot of fun!
Off for Wassail round two tonight as Powderkegs lead our own in Whaley Bridge.
After a significant hiatus the #Binghamton Morris Men had a practice today! Went over some of the small set dances we've been doing and started working out a new one. Looks promising.
#BinghamtonNY #morrisDance #morrisDancing #folkDance #folkDancing
kat donegan 🇵🇸✊caution! this article could win you over to morris dancing & its message of radical inclusion.
#morrisDancing #bossMorris #tradition #heritage #folk #music #dance
https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking/in-defense-of-the-progressive-power-of-morris-dancing/
#morrisDancing #bossMorris #tradition #heritage #folk #music #dance
https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking/in-defense-of-the-progressive-power-of-morris-dancing/
In Defence of the Progressive Power of Morris Dancing
Cecil Sharp spent the Christmas of 1899 unwell. Recuperating in a cottage on the outskirts of Oxford, the mental fug of the lingering illness must have intensified the strangeness of what he saw through the window: a procession of eight men, each carrying white handkerchiefs and coloured sticks, dressed all in white but decorated with […]