Tag: Boscastle
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Boscastle Shanty Festival
As in previous years, we were invited to dance at the annual Boscastle Shanty Festival. Opening the Saturday festivities to a reasonable audience we put on a rousing series of dances to wake everyone up and put them in the mood for the rest of the day. It is a tight space, dancing in the…
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Boscastle Harbour with Black Swan
A Sunday lunchtime out with Black Swan Border Morris was arranged for the day after the Tintagel Dark Gathering and we’re so glad it was. Dancing with Black Swan was a real pleasure, especially outside the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic (our sponsor) and with such a large audience. It was a cold day but…
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The Wellington, 2025
What a beautiful setting for a summer dance outside The Wellington Hotel! Back on home territory, we put on a cracking performance of our dance repertoire, and the audience were clearly animated and showed their appreciation by joining us for a mammoth Tinner’s Rabbit and also fed ‘Billy the Squid’ with generous donations. One spectator…
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Boscastle Harbour, 2025
Another chance to dance our local area, outside our sponsor The Museum of Witchcarft and Magic. Cloudy but warm we ended up with a largee and appreciative audience who we treated to 13 (yes thirteen!) dances plus a musical interlude and an audience participation Tinners’ Rabbit. Quite an exhausting evening but very enjoyable.
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The Napoleon, 2025
Despite the threat of bad weather we set off to dance at The Nap – as it turned out, it was more of a wet mist than rain and we were able to keep the musicians under cover – we even attracted a reasonable audience including a member of Black Swan Morris. The space at…
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Berkeley Morris, 2025
What a great evening. The weather was perfect, the crowd was large and appreciative and we had the chance to meet and dance with the fabulous Berkeley Morris all the way from California! We met in Boscastle Harbour, just outside The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic (our sponsor this year) to enjoy an evening of…
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The Cobweb, 2025
A chance to dance out locally, in our own village, is always welcome. After a quick review we chose to dance in the carpark just over the road as it was still sunny there and there was more room – our audience came over too and sat on the grass or stood around to watch.…
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May Day 2025
The 1st May is the start ofthe Morris dancing season and most sides will be out dancing up the sun to make sure that it rises for the rest of the year. As in 2024, we decided it was better to dance down the sun as getting up early (sunrise was around 5.30) is hard…
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Boscastle Shanty Festival
This is the second year we have appeared at the excellent Boscastle Shanty Festival. This time we opened the Saturday festivities, dancing in the marquee, which gave us a bit more space than our previous appearance – thanks in part of the landslide which wiped out the structure outside the Cobweb Inn where the festival…
