Monday, July 12, 2010

Oh, how I'd like to be in London this September!

The clearest description I've yet seen of Morris. This clip contains examples of the various styles, including the rarely discussed 'Fluffy Morris' and indicates where they originate from.

A CLOCKWORK MORRIS
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5,000 Morris Dancers is an anarchic weekend event at The Southbank Centre, London from 3rd-5th Sept 2010. At its heart is a large-scale installation of morris-inspired folk-pop art by David Owen enhanced by film, dance, music and mayhem.

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Brandragon on the television

Brandragon appeared in Costa's Garden Odyssey. They were doing a feature on lavender including Lavandula which is a lavender farm in Victoria. Brandragon annually dance out at the Lavandula harvest festival and have a great time.

While it is still up you can go to :

http://player.sbs.com.au/programs#/programs_08/fullepisodes/latestepisodes/playlist/Costa-s-Garden-Odyssey-Ep-22/

We appear about 17min 49 sec in and are only there for a few seconds.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

English Ale - Mylor SA

Home again and back to earth after a great English Ale in the Adelaide Hills. Thanks all round to Hedgemonkey Morris and Hot For Joe for their hospitality, to Bron for her brilliant organisation of the weekend and to everyone who came along;
It looked to be a promising weekend when Friday evening's venue, the Wheatsheaf hotel, had Mountain Goat Surefoot on tap.
Saturday morning was spent enjoying the idyllic Bridgewater pub garden. Lots of dancing was had, including mixed sets with South East North West and former Adelaide Lancashire Witches, a double set of Bunch of Fives with Longford and then a triple set of Greywell Tunnel for all who were able.
A short trip around the hills to Mylor and the dancing continued with Dani's Bakewell Tart having its first outing here in a tent raised specially for us, outside the main event hall.
Our performance of Ducks in the Privy went down brilliantly. Clogs on a timber floor always seem to bring our knees up higher and sharper.
Sunday afternoon continued in the same fashion til most of us leapt aboard a bus for the airport, grinning from ear to ear at the avenue of hankies we received from Hedgemonkey as we boarded the bus.
Thanks to all who made it a great weekend, especially Christian for joining us in Saturday night's processional on melodeon.

Monday, April 12, 2010

National Folk Festival Video

Thanks to Henry Falkner for the excellent footage.



The first dance is 'Gisburn processional' (named after the town of Gisburn in Lancashire); the second is called 'Ducks in the Privy' (I don't know the origin), and the final one is called 'Emily's Hop' (written originally on a sleepless night many years ago and named after one of our dancer's daughter who was the cause of the sleepless night).

Thursday, March 25, 2010

National Folk Festival 2010

It's almost Easter again and therefore time for the National Folk Festival!
Come join us at the best dancer's folk festival in Australia. This year we'll be busking about the site at Exhibition Park in Canberra or look for us in the program. Alternatively, keep an eye out for us in the session bar...
Hope to see you there.

Friday, November 6, 2009