[Brighton] Brighton Day of Dance

[BrightonCottager]

..is tomorrow. Morris dancing sides from around England gather in Brighton to dance around the town centre.
One of my favourite days of the year.

Usually it's not 'just' the traditional Cotswold style (white shirts, black trousers with long white socks, jingly bells and sticks) but also some of the other traditions and new ones.

All kicks off at 10am in Pavilion Gardens with all sides performing and then going round various pubs.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Thanks for the warning.

 

[Bry Nylon]

Thanks for the warning.

This. With bells on.

 

[GT49er]

..is tomorrow. Morris dancing sides from around England gather in Brighton to dance around the town centre.
One of my favourite days of the year.

Usually it's not 'just' the traditional Cotswold style (white shirts, black trousers with long white socks, jingly bells and sticks) but also some of the other traditions and new ones.

All kicks off at 10am in Pavilion Gardens with all sides performing and then going round various pubs.

Hope you get some of the serious stuff, not just the gentle hopping round the village green on fetes and high days. The real stuff - at close quarters - can be pretty awesome.

(Speaking as a musician who once played for the top Morris Dancing side (second team) in an enclosed space (a blacked out fire station with all the fire engines parked out on the forecourt and a bar at the top of the bar the firemen slide down) I can verify the speed and the height of the jumps ain't what you see on the village green for the tourists!)

 

[1066familyman]

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Funnily enough, there's a Morris dancing side called the bearded ladies ( I think) that often come to Jack in the green in Hastings

 

[1066familyman]

Any mention of Morris dancing always gives me an excuse to post this!

 

[AmexRuislip]

Any mention of Morris dancing always gives me an excuse to post this!

 

[AmexRuislip]

Any mention of Morris dancing always gives me an excuse to post this!

 

[hart's shirt]

Morris dancing sides from around England gather in Brighton to dance around the town centre.

They'll get a lot of stick.

 

[Chicken Run]

Normally the stench of piss, abhorrent people loitering on unkept grass feeding winged rodents with a side of shit buskers is enough to make me by pass that shit part of Brighton but just in case i was in any doubt then this event will.

 

[dazzer6666]

 

[Perfidious Albion]

Great ! If I was still there and able to get about, I would be there .
Only in the audience though … I have two left feet . Must keep folk traditions alive

 

[BrightonCottager]

Hope you get some of the serious stuff, not just the gentle hopping round the village green on fetes and high days. The real stuff - at close quarters - can be pretty awesome.

(Speaking as a musician who once played for the top Morris Dancing side (second team) in an enclosed space (a blacked out fire station with all the fire engines parked out on the forecourt and a bar at the top of the bar the firemen slide down) I can verify the speed and the height of the jumps ain't what you see on the village green for the tourists!)

Last year, the Hammersmith Morris side were in attendance and featured a couple of young lads who looked like they could have been high jumpers in their schooldays and were reaching prodigious heights. There are also usually some 'dark morris' sides so it's a good mixture. I also know a Hare Krishna who is often out on a Saturday and I was trying to persuade him to come along as well to add another genre of dance.

 

[BN9 BHA]

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[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

It’s only 17 seconds

 

[WATFORD zero]

Ignore them @BrightonCottager. I went last year round Gloucester Road and it was really enjoyable (as was the sunshine and beer).

Unfortunately, I'm out of town for a couple of days. No really, I'm staying at my daughter's

 

[the larks]

This is Brighton Morris at its finest in Antwerp a few years ago. Do watch till the end, Morris as it should be.

 

[BrightonCottager]

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Great ! If I was still there and able to get about, I would be there .
Only in the audience though … I have two left feet . Must keep folk traditions alive

I think some folk traditions can't die out soon enough.