I'm knackered. May bank holiday weekend is the top time for morris and maypole bookings, but dancing, playing and calling maypole dancing two days in succession is really exhausting
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There was an...alternative Morris band [troupe?] in town on Sunday. They were dressed in black [so a variant of Black Morris?] and one of them had put black on half his face. Two of the others were wearing masks. They were doing the dance with sticks where you tap it on the ground then throw it to your partner across the set in rapid succession. They didn't miss a single one!
They would have been a Border morris side, almost certainly. Were they wearing tatter jackets? there's no such thing as 'black morris' but a lot of Border sides do wear black and face paint/masks is quite common in Border Morris.
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Anonymous Morris used to do a stick-tossing dance - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3YmpP77fMw
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