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The forgotten morris
Jan. 22nd, 2016 04:06 pm Anonymous Morris just signed up to dance at Winchester Mayfest.
I noticed that the list of sides attending in included Guith Carnival Morris. Wow!, I thought, a genuine carnival morris side. I though they never, ever, mixed with the folk scene.
Sadly, no.
Guith Carnival Morris are a mixed Border/ Cotswold side, who probably don't even know that Carnival Morris exists. Most morris dancers don't. It's the morris of which nobody speaks.
This clip is Carnival Morris. You find it in the North West of England, especially Lancashire and also North Wales.. It's danced by girls, often starting quite young. It's done to modern pop music, and it's always recorded, never live music. It's very precise (to a degree most North West morris teams would sell their eye teeth to achieve.) It's highly competitive, and for all these reasons, you can see why it rarely overlaps with the normal morris world.
I noticed that the list of sides attending in included Guith Carnival Morris. Wow!, I thought, a genuine carnival morris side. I though they never, ever, mixed with the folk scene.
Sadly, no.
Guith Carnival Morris are a mixed Border/ Cotswold side, who probably don't even know that Carnival Morris exists. Most morris dancers don't. It's the morris of which nobody speaks.
This clip is Carnival Morris. You find it in the North West of England, especially Lancashire and also North Wales.. It's danced by girls, often starting quite young. It's done to modern pop music, and it's always recorded, never live music. It's very precise (to a degree most North West morris teams would sell their eye teeth to achieve.) It's highly competitive, and for all these reasons, you can see why it rarely overlaps with the normal morris world.
