Dancing the Cotswold Tradition around Hertfordshire and beyond since 1930
We’ve been looking forward to summer – this weekend it came with a bang.
We always enjoy the Living Crafts festival at Hatfield House, but it’s been a while since we had such glorious summer weather, so we were wearing more clothes than most of the audience. Continue reading “What a weekend!”
… not that you’d know it from the weather this April! Anyway, in the 13th century all the evidence they needed was a cuckoo.
Cuckoo or not, Morris dancers’ pulses quicken at the end of April, because we traditionally start dancing on the first of May, outside the Town Hall.
The Day of Dance is our biggest event of the year. Our friends from Coventry, Etcetera and Winchester join St Albans Morris Men to mark the end of our summer of dance. You may also spot a couple of members of Whitchurch and Letchworth.
Continue reading “Day of Dance 2015”
As ever, it was worth the early start on May 1st. To prove it, here are some photos of us with and without the Mayor, Cllr Geoff Harrison. Continue reading “May Day 2015”
Spring may only be with us fitfully, but it’s time for us to sort out our summer programme. We do our best to keep the list of events ‘live’ on the website, but here is a printable version, which won’t be updated.
And the programme is so important it’s on the website 3 times: Continue reading “Spring is here …”
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Come and try dancing with us on Monday 19 January from 8-10. All welcome, men and women.
And we’ll buy you a drink afterwards. What more can you ask for?
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One of the nice things about having a club that’s been around for a long time is that you develop a number of little traditional activities.
Christmas is a particularly traditional time of year.
For the Met Office August 31 marks the end of summer, for us it’s our day of dance on the last Saturday of September. That’s today!
What a glorious day for a tour! And the Cotswolds are so lovely.
Pictures of the day below.
There’s a nice article in the local paper, the Review. The Mayor certainly seemed to enjoy herself, as we did! Look at the second picture for further evidence of that.
