Broadstairs Folk Week, Kent UK, August 11, 2007

Morris (and other) dancing in bandstand and elswhere. Note that end of clip shows the excellent Pig Dyke Molly dancers, all painted and costumed in black and white.

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• Broadstairs
• folk
• morris
• dancing
• molly
• bandstand

[begent1973]

Utter idiots! Fear not the KENTISH NATIONALIST MOVEMENT will be coming very soon! Thanet council first on the list, then the morris men!

[Phillip210]

I await them with trepidation!

[lapso77]

Pig Dyke were excellent - did you know they write all their own music

[Phillip210]

I didn't know that. I was most impressed by their professionalism and their individual take on folk dancing. Their band was excellent too. I had not heard of them before my visit to Broadstairs, and hope they will get the wide recognition they deserve. (PS I had put the wrong date on my title, and have now corrected that!)

[PSearPianist]

@Bluebottle83 They were when I saw them.

[Bluebottle83]

Pigs Dyke are brilliant

[melodeon3]

Quite a lot of women as well

[melodeon3]

Looks like some morris women and girls as well.

[anahatamelodeon]

From the date of your post, that would be the CD made by the previous melodeon player Robin Griggs who died in January 2008. He composed all his tunes - we now use a mixture of Rob's tunes, some traditional tunes (but not the well known ones), one I wrote myself and some written by Tom who is the box player on this video. There's a newer CD now, and there'll probably be a 2009 version as the tunes keep changing.

The website's all changed too - more functional but we miss Rob's artwork!

[begent1973]

And so you should Phillip! You may one day write a song about us! We have a proud tradtion of rebellion as our motto INVICTA suggests!

[vickiiiiiiiiiiiiii]

:D i have been going to to bfw since i was a baby im 14 now. my nan does a stool in the creft tent :D

i did belly dancin on the fridai lol

[liliblu]

They do a CD of their tunes - its really good