Dancing the Cotswold Tradition around Hertfordshire and beyond since 1930
New season approaching and the new site in the making. We will be adding to this as the year continues.
Come and join us on May morning (Thursday 1st May) at 6am outside the Old Town Hall along with around 30 hardy spectators, the Mayor and random delivery drivers, council workers etc.
Our traditional ‘pre-season friendly‘, Easter on the (Welham) Green (it must be traditional, we did it last year). We danced for the crowds on the village green in brisk conditions and led some young and not so young people in a merry dance.
We hope you like the new website. Look on the right (or below on smaller screens) to find out how to See us, Book us, Join us.
If you can’t find what you want here, try the search button at the top right (also on the left sidebar if it’s visible). If you still can’t find it, or are strangely nostalgic, there’s the old site.
One of our past Squires, Gordon Myland – ‘Piffy’ to the club for reasons we’ll draw a veil over – died on Tuesday.
SAMM members enjoyed our traditional meal out on Plough Monday, this year at the Lower Red Lion.
This website was originally developed by John Price aka jOHN of St Albans. Almost all the witty and informative words you find on the site are his. John died unexpectedly on 6th February 2007.
Listing his accomplishments is inadequate, but for this club alone, he was Squire, Bagman, webmaster, distant members correspondent, overseas tour organiser – usually several of those at the same time. John’s accordion playing shaped not just our music but our dancing as we tried to reflect his rhythm, energy and joy. More than all of this, he was wonderful company, serious or silly as the occasion demanded.
We will remember him for his warmth, his wisdom, his wit, his website, his willingness … and that’s just the “w”s!
Update Feb 2014 – it’s the new website now, but we’ve still got a lot of jOHN’s words and pictures.