Morris Dancing with Fiddle in Sunshine !

dance Wellington Street London WC2 - Ripley Morris dance
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others on the day: Cotswold morris: dances from an area mostly in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire; an established misnomer, since the Cotswolds overlap this region only partially.
Normally danced with handkerchiefs or sticks to accompany the hand movements.

Music was traditionally provided by either a pipe and tabor or a fiddle.
These are still used today, but the most common instrument is the melodeon.

Accordions and concertinas are also common, and other instruments are sometimes used; often drums are employed.

Cotswold and sword dancers are most often accompanied by a single player, but Northwest and Border sides often have a band, usually including a drum.

For Cotswold and (to a degree) Border dances, the tunes are traditional and specific: the name of the dance is often actually the name of the tune, and dances of the same name from different traditions will have slightly different tunes.

For Northwest and sword dancing there is less often a specific tune for a dance: the players may use several tunes, and will often change tunes during a dance.

Several notable albums have been released, in particular the Morris On series, which consists of Son of Morris On, Grandson of Morris On, Great Grandson of Morris On, and Morris On The Road.

North West morris: more military in style and often processional.

Border Morris from the English-Welsh border: a simpler, looser, more vigorous style, normally danced with blackened faces (or sometimes otherwise coloured, given the negative connotations for some of blackface).

Longsword dancing from Yorkshire and south Durham.
Rapper or Short sword dancing from Northumberland and Co. Durham.

Molly Dancing from East Anglia.

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[engcountryboy]

nice... thanks for sharing.. The Ripley Morris Men with hugely friendly musicians playing for us.

[FriendLondonFriend]

Dear engcountyb.,

Thanks for your comment; could you suggest a better title for this vt., please?

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Cheers.

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[engcountryboy]

Well the dance is called the Rose Tree or Banbury Bill? And teh musicians are from East Suffolk and Winchester areas...