Morris Dancing at Oxford Folk Festival 2023

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11 ай бұрын

This compilation of videos was made during the Folk Weekend at Oxford on the 15th of April 2023.
Oxford Folk Weekend includes spectacular displays of live Morris music and dance with various dance styles from across the country.
The Morris Dancers groups on these videos are:
- Chiltern Hundreds Northwest Morris
www.chilternhundredsmorris.co.uk/
@chilternhundredsmorris
- The Knights of King Ina
www.koki.org.uk/
@knightsofkingina
- Hemlock Morris
www.hemlockmorris.com/
@hemlock_morris
- Phoenix Morris
phoenixmorrisdancers.com/
@phoenixmorrisdancers
- Thames Valley Morris Men
www.tvmm.org.uk/
- Queen's Oak Border Morris
www.queensoak.org.uk/the-dances/
- Black Annis Morris
blackannismorris.org/
‪@blackannis-jm4zc‬
- Datchet Morris
www.datchetmorris.org.uk/
@datchetmorris

Пікірлер: 90

@Sneakyboson 3 күн бұрын

That drumming actually hits so hard!

@garyhuizilopoxtli9701 3 ай бұрын

These songs revive the mystic chords of ancient memory. Thank you!

@joline2730 9 ай бұрын

A great over-all cover of the many Sides - loved it ‼️ Dancing England Still Dances 👍👍💯💯✔✔

@colombedelons5431 9 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! 😊🙏

@susandrydenhenderson6234 2 ай бұрын

Great example of one of Britain’s many varied rural folk traditions.

@espritlibre391 2 ай бұрын

Good! Keep your culture alive! Enjoy and dance. A Friend from France.

@creativenative5175 4 ай бұрын

🎉This is wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing it with us.🎉

@colombedelons5431 4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much =)

@user-us5cl7xu5x 9 ай бұрын

Amazing English culture that no major media shows at all.

@williamcaton8432 6 ай бұрын

This is on local news often. Stop trying to be a victim. How much money do you donate to Morris Sides? How many folk festivals did you go to last year? How many Morris festivals did you organize last year? Traditions only die when people don’t go to the festivals. Stop being a false victim.

@vitamin3076 4 ай бұрын

@@williamcaton8432 local news isnt major media, reread what he said

@beeball99 2 ай бұрын

@@williamcaton8432 because most people dont know about them, because theres none of it on peoples news

@unculltured 2 ай бұрын

@@beeball99 gotta cover all the deaths overseas don't we!

@Cooger93 Ай бұрын

For good reason😂

@maxhamilton3348 4 ай бұрын

That was fun to watch! Thank you.

@colombedelons5431 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment 😃I'm glad you liked it!

@DavidMckenna-wl9do 10 ай бұрын

Love it and it’s English

@colombedelons5431 10 ай бұрын

Thank you very much 😃

@ramatgan1 9 ай бұрын

Can you imagine other civilisations built the Pyramids and Taj Mahal and this is all these people can be proud of.

@user-mg4qo2eb1b 8 ай бұрын

why you got to bring us down man?@@ramatgan1

@Bear_the_shepherd 6 ай бұрын

@@ramatgan1mate, get a life. You don't need to leave the same comment, you could just simply leave ✌🏻

@Dieuetmondroit23.4 3 ай бұрын

📍London@@ramatgan1

@grahampayne8376 6 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@user-gu4vq4oc4n 5 ай бұрын

Loved it looks like fun

@colombedelons5431 5 ай бұрын

Thank you very much =) Yes it is!

@indochinajames3372 2 ай бұрын

HANKIES AND BELLS HANKIES AND BELLS FOR THE WIN!

@Eric-qm5xw 2 ай бұрын

Greta content, thankyou.

@susandrydenhenderson6234 2 ай бұрын

Commentators remember that English folk styles were not high culture performances, but rural participatory celebrations and rituals.

@kathykeeley352 8 күн бұрын

This is such an important point to make. They are dances designed for people to join in.

@susandrydenhenderson6234 2 ай бұрын

Nice, gentle and pleasant, like England. Of course I realize varied historic Britain has many richly varied regional traditional dancing and music styles.

@heston208 11 ай бұрын

👍 👏

@colombedelons5431 11 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@jaywilliams8386 5 ай бұрын

💓💕👍

@colombedelons5431 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 😃

@sgibson5797 4 ай бұрын

Who needs to to a.gym when ypu can do this?

@liviatarcea Ай бұрын

This dance is very similar with the Romanian calusarii. There is similarity even with the costume and the fact that they have wooden sticks. The sticks used to be actual swords in the past, but now it's practiced with sticks instead.

@ThePrinceofPlots 3 ай бұрын

Morris dancing after the manner of the moors

@PhilInsane 6 ай бұрын

What tune is the first one? Love from Ireland btw reminds me of some of our traditions

@colombedelons5431 6 ай бұрын

Hi, I don't know what is the name of the first music. But you can contact the Chilttern Hundreds Morris on their Instagram page to ask them: @chilternhundredsmorris 😃

@darrendin2050 6 ай бұрын

Great to see this still being practised. Im going to get into it myself and celebrate this great dance commemortaing the reconquista in Spain. Morris = Moors. The muslim colonisers kicked out of Iberia!

@tyrone9953 3 ай бұрын

Lol you should thank the moors for western civilisation

@darrendin2050 3 ай бұрын

@tyrone9953 HAHAHHA. Come on Tyrone, edumacate me, boy. Let's see what trash you can bring to the table with this one

@thesunman 2 ай бұрын

1:33 the griddy

@svenjansen2134 27 күн бұрын

This couldn't be any more white even if it was snowing lol

@ver_idem 9 ай бұрын

Hmm, why don`t you invite Mooris groups from Romania socalled calushi ,you`ll see there will be many interferences among Britain and Balkan folkrore.

@colombedelons5431 9 ай бұрын

Hi, that's a good idea, but I'm unfortunately not the organisator of this festival ☺ You can contact the organisator of the Oxford folk festival to propose. Here is their Instagram account: @folkweekend_oxford

@alexsawa2956 6 ай бұрын

Well, I think I know how England ended up with a empire that went around the world... Kind of like the Johnny Cash song, "A Boy Named Sue"...when the nations of the world made fun of Morris dancing, the English were embittered to the point that it roused a great martial spirit... Best navy in the world too. Probably because the best Morris dancer on every ship was... Well... ... Let's just say English sailors were less prone to getting lonely on the looong voyages from home because of the most excellent Morris dancers.

@susandrydenhenderson6234 2 ай бұрын

Britain, like many countries, has many different styles of folk dance. For a small country it has always been a very rich and varied culture from area to area. Obviously it gave the world its language, literature, law, culture too. What are you trying to say and why?

@renef3 Ай бұрын

no more blackfaces?????

@ramatgan1 9 ай бұрын

Can you imagine other civilisations built the Pyramids and Taj Mahal and this is all these people can be proud of.

@lunino4374 9 ай бұрын

a somali saying this 😂

@user-us5cl7xu5x 9 ай бұрын

Who brought the industrial revolution to the world?

@artieash6671 8 ай бұрын

Magna Carta, maybe?

@Bear_the_shepherd 6 ай бұрын

You don't know much about English culture and history 😂 silly individual! God bless though

@darrendin2050 6 ай бұрын

Said, in English, on the Internet, using a pc or a mobile phone. You're jealous, you loser. 😢😢

@mr.piechipsandbakedbeans7967 3 ай бұрын

It's nice and all, keeping the tradition alive, British culture and all that but I just think it's a bit pathetic? Like a Britian's got talent act.

@susandrydenhenderson6234 2 ай бұрын

Britain has many more varied folk dance styles than many other places. This is just one ancient ritual style. We also have clog dancing, sword dancing, etc.

@Beach_comber 22 күн бұрын

@@susandrydenhenderson6234 And English country dancing, as in Playford's 17th century manual "The English Dancing Master". English country dancing moved up the social hierarchy and spread to European court dancing.

@Hithere-ek4qt 10 ай бұрын

Both interesting and a bit boring

@colombedelons5431 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching ;)

@ruthgunneson-poling1571 10 ай бұрын

Your video is perfect. First time watching this dance. Can you include how these dances came to be?

@ruthgunneson-poling1571 10 ай бұрын

Quite the workout!

@colombedelons5431 10 ай бұрын

Yes it was! 🏅

@Bear_the_shepherd 6 ай бұрын

Traditional dances are like that.

@alexsawa2956 6 ай бұрын

Well, I think I know how England ended up with a empire that went around the world... Kind of like the Johnny Cash song, "A Boy Named Sue"...when the nations of the world made fun of Morris dancing, the English were embittered to the point that it roused a great martial spirit... Best navy in the world too. Probably because the best Morris dancer on every ship... Well... ... Let's just say English sailors were less prone to getting lonely on the looong voyages from home because of the most excellent Morris dancers.

@susandrydenhenderson6234 2 ай бұрын

What are you implying? It’s one of many styles of British traditional folk dance. Other countries have theirs. What’s your point and purpose?