Morris dancing
Morris dancing
May 1: 5.15am for dance while the sun rises. Find the Morris side in the car park below Leedon Tor on the B3232 Yelverton to Princetown road. The Fox Tor Café will be serving full English from 6am. Come rain or sunshine, they will be there!
May 2: From 10.30am it’s the Black Prince Flower boat festival, held in Cawsands and Kingsands.
May 4: The Royal Oak Inn, Meavy, with guests Lodestone Border Morris. Starting at 8pm, this is the first of many Wednesday nights dancing outside a pub, as tradition would have it!
May 7: Tamerton Foliot May Fair, starting at 12noon with a procession down the high street and much ‘fun of the fair’ in the field below the church. Dartmoor Border Morris will be dancing throughout the afternoon.
May 11: 7.30pm, Dartmoor Border Morris have been invited to perform with The Plymouth Morris, who are a ‘Cotswold side’ and dance with hankies as opposed to sticks. This time we are at the Dolphin Hotel again on Plymouth’s historic barbican.
May 18: 8pm, Dartmoor Border Morris will be at the White Thorn Inn, Shaugh Prior, with guests Beltane Border Morris.
May 25: 8pm, Dartmoor Border Morris will be at the Leaping Salmon in Horrabridge, with guests Wreckers Morris from Cornwall.
Please check www.dartmoorbordermorris.com to see if there have been any last minute changes or additions to their diary.