Yeti is both dancer and musician - while we were at the pub on Thursday, he decided to do both at the same time!

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 Anonymous Morris were in fine form at the annual St George's Day event held by Bourne River Morris.

Here we are dancing a relatively recent addition to our repertoire.   This is a modern dance called 'Smuggling' (mostly copied from a Boggart's Breakfast dance called 'Poaching' but with a new figure added)

C, who joined us at age  12, is now 16 and ( Read more... )

 Sleepy today...

Had a very good day yesterday.

Anonymous Morris's charity for this year is the Dorset Wildlife Trust.  As the Trust look after a large chunk of Brownsea Island (which is where the Scout movement began, is a SSSI nature reserve and also in the middle of Poole Harbour), we asked if we could go and dance there.

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 Tinner's Rabbits was created by Grimspound Morris, but we've sort of adapted it.

The chorus and the triangle figure are still pretty much the same as the original, but the rest, err, isn't...

But we like our version, and it makes good use the space when you only have three dancers!

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 Had a good, if tiring, weekend at Wimborne Folk Festival.

Friday - collecting tins and then ceilidh
Saturday - lots of collecting tins, then ceilidh
Sunday - Anonymous Morris danced.

I'd been watching the weather forecast with trepidation for some time, the Sunday forecast was for lots of rain.

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 We've been copying dances from other sides (with permission) ever since we started Anonymous Morris, but we've also written a couple of our own.

Today, at Wimborne Folk Festival, we got the ultimate compliment on one of our home-grown dances.  Bloodstone border asked if they could copy it.

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Knackered, but in a good way.

We visited Ferndown Middle school today.  It's school project week and one of the many things they're doing is morris.

Henry and Graham took the day off work so we'd have two energetic males to enthuse the boys.  Graham has the handy ability to dance and drum steadily at the same time (I can dance and play the concertina ( Read more... )

 Anonymous Morris dancing Tinner's Rabbits this afternoon.

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The origin of the dance name is in the Three Hares symbol.

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 Having the Queen's Jubilee this June is resulting in an unprecedented demand for morris dancers.

I've had two enquires today alone.  We've already turned down one that clashed with a folk festival, but I'm hoping we can make some of the other ones.  It's an excellent opportunity to raise some money to cover our hall rent for next year.

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Is there anyone in the Birmingham area who would like a visitor for the first weekend in March?

The Joint Morris Organisations are holding a workshop on publicity on Saturday the 3rd, and I'd quite like to go.  The workshop is in Tamworth, but as long as I can get there from Birmingham, anywhere in the general area would do.

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