Beltane Border Morris dance White Ladies Aston at Upton Folk Festival 2015

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Angie Latham Sound Healer & Quantum Hypnotherapist

9 жыл бұрын

Beltane - exploding on to the dance floor
outside The Swan Inn , Upton Upon Severn Folk Festival.
Sunday May 3rd 2015

Пікірлер: 61

@user-nq4jd3bz3j 5 ай бұрын

I've watched so many of their videos recently, I think I'm stalking them! Love the energy and wish I was young enough to join them.

@randolphtrenchtrousers4345 5 ай бұрын

Superb, love it, God bless you all !!!!

@Bertoblam1 5 жыл бұрын

Am I still allowed to say that these guys make me proud of my British heritage? Long may they continue to bring this amazing traditional dancing to the people.

@neilbreward5440 5 жыл бұрын

Nothing wrong with being proud of a British tradition like this. Love other cultural traditions too. These dancers are absolutely brilliant.

@burninglion2584 5 жыл бұрын

Yes. Yes you are.

@poeticider 4 жыл бұрын

Greetings from Shropshire! I am very proud of our local dance :)

@enzedbrit 2 жыл бұрын

I’d be disappointed if you didn’t!!

@albertvermeule5844 2 жыл бұрын

This is a part of British culture i wasn't aware of until recently an di must say i like it.

@jenniferrussell9118 8 ай бұрын

Love it so jolly and vibrant. ❤❤❤

@alanstevens2512 2 жыл бұрын

Morris Dancing......that puts a chill down your spine.....BRILLIANT!

@Bpl541 3 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love this dance and the energy is amazing. Thank you 😊

@lindagregory2144 3 жыл бұрын

Totally agree british folk and morris dance in may brillent

@josechrist3948 4 жыл бұрын

Fabulous! This is very important cultural heritage, please do not fade it away, there is already to much lost in this time!

@shaunwild8797 4 жыл бұрын

The black face painting is now being removed as not to offend. Next someone will take offence to the dance it's self.

@diannemorgan-smith2245 Жыл бұрын

TERRIFYING! Love It!

@burninglion2584 5 жыл бұрын

My people.... Vibrant, strong, joyous ❤️

@grid_keeper7889 4 жыл бұрын

Now that's a part of Albion 🦡I'm proud of🍀

@coltal1 8 жыл бұрын

Wonderful energy... that's what I call dancing with 'attitude'.

@phoenixrising6245 4 жыл бұрын

Love, love, love this!!!!! Keep this tradition ALIVE!!!!

@enzedbrit 2 жыл бұрын

Join your local troupe to keep it thriving

@phoenixrising6245 2 жыл бұрын

@@enzedbrit Great idea! I'm seriously tempted!

@morrisndoris 7 жыл бұрын

This video has had so many views and I think 500 of them must be me! It is just one of the best renditions of White Ladies Aston I have ever seen. The footwork is perfect and it has incredible energy. I take my morris hat off to you Beltane Border Morris!

@ArmandKarlsen 4 жыл бұрын

I, for one, want to see morris dancing in a mosh pit. They've got the outfits down already XD

@glindaparkerman6646 6 жыл бұрын

Love this dance.

@elizabethmillane8369 5 жыл бұрын

Great stuff ! Keep the stories of our history alive!

@rumeunner3245 2 жыл бұрын

Its like a gothic new age style of morris dancing

@MrLuridan 6 жыл бұрын

I love it when she screams in my face....RAAAWWRR!!!

@BelledVain 9 жыл бұрын

My favourite side of the weekend ! Thoroughly enjoyed the energy and damned good dancing !

@BelledVain 9 жыл бұрын

An offensive and unnecessary comment. I suggest you simply get lost :-)

@iamtenzin4409 8 жыл бұрын

+Julie Church Looks like they did.

@albertascouse4507 9 жыл бұрын

Terrific energy! Certainly one of the best vids for Border Morris thx

@IckyTzatziki 8 жыл бұрын

Great stuff.. long may it continue

@ktsenya2 7 жыл бұрын

YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME

@megleschack9049 6 ай бұрын

The fringed ragged look is so interesting. They look like swooping crows.

@yammybobo 8 жыл бұрын

Wonderful Energy....

@andyduckering8731 4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely fantastic. Would love to be involved in that.... ❤️

@megleschack9049 4 ай бұрын

An especially forceful and athletic dance, this one.🎉

@highwindsclarke2685 2 жыл бұрын

The tune is The Four Elements and was also used on a schools dance programme. I have this tune on tape.

@elizabethcarver5151 2 жыл бұрын

Are you sure? It sounded like The King of the Fairies to me

@hcewhite 2 жыл бұрын

@@elizabethcarver5151 It is King of the Fairies :)

@christophersharp317 5 жыл бұрын

Fucking awesome!

@bettybrown2968 6 жыл бұрын

now that's what I call a fertility dance...

@lauramoneybanks 8 жыл бұрын

What is the name of this tune? Does anyone know?

@rowazi 8 жыл бұрын

+Laura Brockbank King of the Fairies

@tehminagoskar2043 6 жыл бұрын

King of the Fairies.

@mikestalberg6591 6 жыл бұрын

Yes, but only the A part, over and over. They don't play the B part at all.

@lauramoneybanks 2 жыл бұрын

@@rowazi Thank you! Haha, it's literally taken my 6 years to get back to this - you are wonderful now, as then

@kenthorseman 3 жыл бұрын

Border Morris is under attack, the powers that be in the Morris federation have banned the black face tradition that goes back time immemorial, in our side they’ve hit a hurdle as one of our side is black as with other sides, so what they gonna do about that ?

@ktsenya2 7 жыл бұрын

What do you use for blackface? Does it come off easily?

@amybaker4654 5 жыл бұрын

Apparently its a sort of disguise,a means to hide your identity from eveil spirits.

@kay9156 5 жыл бұрын

@@amybaker4654 Pretty sure it's more in imitation of the black people/moors the dance is named after.

@renamcvicar 5 жыл бұрын

@@amybaker4654 you're close but it had more to do with not being recognised by the authorities during the time when begging was a crime punishable by imprisonment around the time of mid 18th-19th century Dickens era if not a little earlier..coal dust mixed with lamp oil.. the country side here in England really struggled between the industrialization of mills/factories which put hundreds of thousands out of work and croft farmers were pushed off their lands by the rich owners..people from the country had flocked into the more urban areas.. suddenly out of work and with no social programs invented yet.. they resorted to begging and some had enough skill to incorporate dance.. it's nothing at all to do with mocking of Africans.. and in those days Britain had a high earning slave trade income,.. so let's keep the facts real, it's working class struggling to survive same then as now.

@jestpassinthru9915 5 жыл бұрын

It's a disguise. nothing to do with black people at all.

@kay9156 5 жыл бұрын

@@jestpassinthru9915 actually, the clue is in the name "Morris". Think the "morisca/moresca" dance in Spain and Italy, where they dress in Moorish costume. The moors had a strong presence in Europe, and over time, this history has been downplayed and erased. A lot of customs and practices that relate to the moors have lost their true meaning.