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Thread #101149   Message #2037324
Posted By: JohnB
27-Apr-07 - 02:14 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Dancing up the sun
Subject: RE: Folklore: Dancing up the sun
We will be dancing in High Park in Toronto Ontario Canada.
It will be the 10th year for some of us from Orange Peel Morris , the event however has been going on for over twenty five years (can't remember the exact number)
The other teams normally attending would include Green Fiddle Morris(Cotswold), Toronto Morris Men(Cotswold), The Belles of York(Northwest Clog), Toronto Women's Sword(Obvious),Cold Barn Morris(Cotswold), Half Crown Clog(Step Clog), Sorry if I missed anyone.
We dance near the Grenadier Restaurant in High Park at dawn, everyone does two show dances, these are interspersed with a couple of massed dances and a singing of Hal and Tow and the Padstow May song.
There can be a hundred or so, with onlookers etc. on a good warm day.
One of Orange Peel's dances will be a dance which we have stolen from Boggart's Breakfast when we danced with them and Pecsaetan(sp) and a couple of more tems, in Sheffield in 2004. So if you are in the neighbourhood Dazbo come and play for us, oh yes the dance is Stephensons Rocket.
There are at least two if not three teams on Vancouver Island, so you may be out of luck with the Guiness Book of records ClaireBear. It should not stop you drinking some Guiness though.