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'Musician's Rules' - HEMM
'Rules' regarding musicians - courtesy Hook Eagle Morris Men
http://www.touchstone.uk.com/HEMM/musorule.htm |
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American Morris Newsletter, The
Like it says. There's an open directory of back issues in PDF.
http://www.americanmorrisnews.org/ |
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AntiMorris Webring (aka 'Counter Morris' )
Dedicated to the dancing of the *other* Morris. Terry Pratchett fan? Then you already know.
http://p.webring.com/hub?ring=antimorriswebrin |
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Border Morris notes - Roy Dommet
By one of THE collectors of Morris background information
http://www.opread.force9.co.uk/RoyDommet/BorderNotes/contents.htm |
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Cloggies, The
Where virtual reality spawns imitation. It gently satirised northern British male culture, and introduced a shocked nation to the scurrilous delights of Lancashire clog-dancing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cloggies |
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Island Dance (iDance) - updated/new URI (Nov 2011)
Vancouver Island Folk & Country Dance node web site. Want one address to send to folks looking for Contra, ECD, Morris, SCD, Int'l Folk or Belly Dance? Try this.
http://members.shaw.ca/island.dance/ |
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Jeff Bigler's Morris Dance Wiki
Usefully self described as, "This is yet another morris dancing wiki." It includes both a Morris & Sword Dance Side Contact Information & the Directory Of Online Morris Dancers (DOOMD)
http://www.jeffbigler.org/wiki/doku.php?id=start |
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Jeff Bigler's list of Morris & Sword Sides, older
This is Jeff's earlier work, last updated 2003. Remains on-line and of potential use.
http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/morris/style.html |
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Jinky Wells II, Itinerant Morris Dance Bear
The Travels of a Morris Dancing Bear
http://www.compulink.co.uk/~capers/jinky/jinky.html |
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Mail: ITM internal Mail List
Island Thyme Morris (a women's side) internal mail list info page, hosted at Victoria Telecommunity Network (aka Vic Freenet)
http://victoria.tc.ca/mailman/listinfo/islandthyme |
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Mail: Island Folk discussion list
An e-mail only list it is not strictly related to Morris however covers quite well the activities of the Vancouver Island folk music scene including some dance.
http://ml.islandnet.com/mailman/listinfo/islandfolk/ |
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Mail: MDDL (aka "muddle")
Morris Dancing Discussion List - a world wide e-mail list of great activity. Many questions posed by Norman Stanfield of UBC.
http://mddl.blogspot.com/ |
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Mail: PNW Morris List/Group
The PNW Morris list hosted at Yahoo! Groups is both a mailing list and web hosting of some links, files, calendar, etc. It is offered to allow Morris folks from BC, WA & OR to communicate. Others are welcome. While the posts are not moderated it is expected the communications would be about Morris dancing in that area or by sides from that area going elsewhere.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pnw-morris/ |
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Mail: QBM internal Mail list
Quicksbottom Morris - (recently Victoria Not-For-Joes, formerly Island Thyme Men's aka Not-for-joes) internal mail list info page, hosted on Victoria Telecommunity Network (aka Victoria Freenet)
http://victoria.tc.ca/mailman/listinfo/qbm/ |
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May Day Morris in North America
Starting seriously in 2007 with the Left Coast, Ric Goldman has assembled a list of Morris connected May Day 'Dance the Sun UP' events.
http://rgoldman.org/morris/mayday.htm |
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May Day in NZ
The first to Dance the Sun Up each year, City of Aukland Morris Dancers, often with others in company. They're first, we're last (until Rant And Raven in Anchorage do so). Ah, I've just discovered where, first, second and third breakfasts _really_ originated.
http://www.aucklandmorris.org.nz/ |
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Morris Dance FAQ - now "Wikimoresca"
Searchable database of answers re Morris dancing. Big, Very big! Giinormous! Good, very good. NB Tom has changed the format to a wiki, check it out.
http://tomkeays.com/morris/wiki/ |
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Morris Dancing - John Kirkpatrick
JK's papers on Morris dancing and the revival of the Border Morris style
http://www.johnkirkpatrick.co.uk/morris.asp |
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Morris Dancing from the Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wot you mean you dunno what the Wikipedia is? Hmmmph.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_dance |
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Morris and Misrule - a Doctoral Thesis by Norman Stanfield
UBC thesis by Norman, late of the Vancouver Morris Men. Part of the presentation speaks to the parody of Country Dance by the Morris, something not particularly obvious to modern audiences. A good read.
https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/1056 |
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Morris dancing@Everything2.com
Everything2.com is an editable on-line wiki or encyclopedia.
http://everything2.com/title/Morris%2520dancing |
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Movie: "Morris: A Life With Bells On"
Mockumentary of Morris. Lovely trailer. Yes, there's a petition. Showing at the Seattle Int'l Film Festival May 2009
http://www.morrismovie.com/ |
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Movie: "Morris: A Life With Bells On" @ SIFF
See own link. This leads to SIFF entry.
http://www.siff.net/festival/film/detail.aspx?FID=123&id=28995 |
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Music: ABC 'Black Book' - Morris tunes
A Handbook of Morris Dances by Lionel Bacon, "The Black Book"
http://www.themorrisring.org/more/Tunes/index.html |
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Music: ABC Central - John Chambers collection of info
The mother of all ABC link pages/nodes. A collection of all things ABC music notation-ish _and_ tunes
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/ |
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Music: ABC music communication and Morris Music on the WWW
As the title states. This is the root page for the ABC Morris Music library and has more ABC info than you can shake a stick at, so to speak.
http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/morris/music/music.html |
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Music: ABC music notation & tune search
An ASCII text format for communicating music notation developed by Chris Walshaw. Has tune search, both on site and the web. If his topical URL doesn't work go to http://www.walshaw.plus.com/abc/
http://abcnotation.org.uk/ |
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Music: Pipe & Tabor
The Quintessential Morris Instrument
http://www.mit.edu/people/ijs/pipe-and-tabor.html |
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Music: The ABC standard
Info on how ABC is laid out. PDF avail, ask JD
http://abc.sourceforge.net/standard/ |
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Photos: More Tallship Morris Dancing - temporarily broken
AC of Tiddley Cove Morris on board R. TUCKER THOMPSON, a NZ top's'l schooner during a trip from Tacoma, WA to Vancouver, BC July 2005
http://www.tucker.co.nz/VoyageLogs/log_2005_7.htm |
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Photos: Mummers & Guisers Play Flickr search
An attempt to search Flickr without getting any of the Philidephia Mummer's Parade material. Any suggestions for search term shaping welcome.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2d54cp |
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Photos: QBM Photo Pool on Flickr
Quicksbottom Morris' photo pool on Flickr. This is open for folks and Sides on Flickr to join to post links to their shots of us online.
https://secure.flickr.com/groups/quicksbottom_morris/ |
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Photos: QBM as Vic NFJ @ Metchosin Market - July & Sept 2006
QBM at Metchosin Market, Sep 2006, 10 pics. JD back from sea. Four more pics on page 2 of the Metchosion Market set of NFJ (now QBM) at the Market in July 06.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elysianfields/171003307/in/set-72157594176895306/ |
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Photos: Vic Morris sides May Day 2007
Sides from Victoria, BC at May Day 2007, dancing up the sun: Hollytree, Island Thyme and Quciksbottom. The latter's first MD under it's new name. New dancers in both ITM & QBM.
http://picasaweb.google.com/tvmarner/MaydayMorrisDance?authkey=NKDTqTiw1IU |
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Photos: any on Flikr tagged with 'Morris Dancer'
A 'tag' search of photos on the Flickr photo share site using 'Morris Dancer'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/morrisdancer/ |
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Photos: any on Flikr tagged with 'Morris Dancing'
A 'tag' search of photos on the Flickr photo share site using 'Morris Dancing'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/morrisdancing/ |
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Photos: by Richard James of QBM/ITM @ Luxton Fair Sep 06
Only one photo left, Rod playing concertina. Was: Luxton Fair is in Sept. in Luxton, BC just west of Victoria, BC. Looks like we're doing Speed the Pluff. Ooh, I'm off time. Nuts. For more pictures Richard took of us in the 'People' area of the VCC site.
http://www.pbase.com/vcc/image/67128442 |
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Play: Folk Play Research Home Page
History, info, groups, performances for Folk Plays including Mummers and Mumming. Mummering too.
http://www.folkplay.info/ |
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Play: Master Mummers - Folk Play Website
Master Mummer Peter Millington collects/sorts/provides directories, scripts and script search and an electronic ERD (English Ritual Drama) pub(lication).
http://www.mastermummers.org/index.htm |
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Play: Mummers' and guisers' plays @ Wikipedia
There are groups who exist solely to perform their play, however there are a number of Morris sides (teams) who perform plays as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummers_Play |
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Side: Bowen Is. Black Sheep
Baa - Border side on Bowen Is., just NW of W. Vancouver and the Troller Pub
http://www.bowenblacksheep.ca/ |
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Side: Hollytree Morris - contact info
Hollytree Morris, Canda's oldest side
http://www.gvpl.ca/cid/viewlisting.php?view=255 |
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Side: Hollytree Morris - history
Reminiscences of a Victorian Squire - illustrated history of Hollytree Morris's first decade 1974-1984
http://victoriansquire.50webs.com/ |
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Side: Island Thyme Morris
ITM women's side, now on the web
http://www3.telus.net/island_dance/morris/itm.home.html |
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Side: Island Thyme Morris web site (older)
Web site for the former Island Thyme Morris joint side, dancing now as Quicksbottom Morris (was protem Victoria Not-For-Joes (Border Morris)) and Island Thyme Morris (formerly IT Women).
http://www.islandnet.com/~jcarver/is_thyme.html |
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Side: Morris Teams Directory @ the Morris Wiki
http://morrisdancing.wikia.com/wiki/Morris_teams_directory |
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Side: Quicksbottom Morris
QBM web site
http://quicksbottommorris.ca/ |
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Side: Quicksbottom Morris - BC place names
Quicks Bottom Flats from which we take our name.
http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/22311.html |
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Side: Tiddley Cove Morris - new addie
TCM - A Vancouver woman's Morris side
http://tiddleycovemorris.net/ |
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Side: Vancouver Morris Men
VMM
http://vancouvermorrismen.org/ |
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Songs of England @ Robokopp
Ballads, Cavalier Ballads, Ditties, Folksongs, Hymns and Jigs of England. Check out the main page as well, from link at bottom, for other countries.
http://musicanet.org/robokopp/english.html |
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Songs: The Copper Family - Thousands or More
This is not the video linked to before. Quite different. Did I mention that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qq8VeoPIC0 |
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Songs: The Watersons "Hal-An-Tow"
Like it sez. Purportedly an Attenborough production circa 1966
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs9PMky7Fj0 |
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The Pershore Morris - Border Morris dances: HTML via Google
Paper by Graham Baldwin of VMM on sources/history of Pershore dances; VMM standardisation & interpretation.
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:WTYXcGOBuMcJ:www.vancouvermorrismen.org/pershoremorris.pdf+not-for-joe&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=12 |
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The Pershore Morris - Border Morris dances: PDF original
Paper by Graham Baldwin of VMM on sources/history of Pershore dances; VMM standardisation & interpretation.
http://www.vancouvermorrismen.org/pershoremorris.pdf |
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Victoria Folk Music Society
Inc. local calendar and listing of folk related events.
http://www.victoriafolkmusic.ca |
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Victoria Nautical Song Circle
Not a Morris site, this is a Victoria area nautical song circle. Many shanties, forebitters, drinking and parody (of the former) songs are sung. As many Morris sings often devolve to call and answer songs, like shanties, it's a great practise ground. Come out and learn some.
http://victoria.tc.ca/Culture/Vnsc/ |
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Video: Morris Dancing moving pictures at YouTube
Like it sez Guv. Over 500 files at time I loaded this link!
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Morris+Dancing&search=Search |
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Video: Quicksbottom Morris - Morris dancing moving pictures at YouTube
Courtesy of Ewen, videos at YT mostly of Quicksbottom Morris and Island Thyme Morris, Victoria, BC. Dancing and QBM's Mummer's play performances.
http://www.youtube.com/user/tartangrumpy |
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Video: Quicksbottom Morris light sabre dance PTMF
QBM dancing "Speed Bums" after hours at the Princeton Trad Music Festival, Princeton, BC. 21 Aug 2010
http://vimeo.com/18222474 |
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