Kirtlington Morris - Talk and Workshop
Channel: The Morris Federation
Date: 2021-06-23

Talk & Workshop – Kirtlington Morris – “And I often wonder – How did it all start?”.  Kirtlington Morris introduce the Kirtlington Cotswold morris tradition from Oxfordshire.  Programme: Musical introduction, Talk, Dance Workshop from 47:30, Q&A 

Your hosts:
John Mayo - MC and introduces the speakers.
John Leslie - musical introduction.
Bob Dunlop - the history of Morris at Kirtlington Lamb Ale in the 17th to 19th centuries.
Paul Davenport - the reconstruction of the Kirtlington dances in the 1970s.
Tim Radford - the Kirtlington revival.
Nigel Holt - the work of Len Berry and Barbara Berry as first squire and first musician of the revived Kirtlington side.
Dillon Browne - workshop - the steps and figures of the tradition, please join in and see how these fit into some of the dances – wear comfortable dancing clothes and you will need a pair of hankies.  With music by John Leslie, principal musician for ten years, who has played, sung and danced since the 1970s.  John Leslie is busy recording all the Kirtlington tunes as ‘a tune a day’ on Facebook.

A brief history about the team and Lamb Ale is on their website: 
https://kirtlington-morris.org.uk/

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