Our selected dances for 2024
... but watch carefully. You may see others, if we feel adventurous

Our dances are grouped by the village that gave its name to a "tradition" style. Click on the heading to see The Morris Ring web page about the tradition, and all the dances and tunes that have been published ... and you can listen to them too!

2024 core dances are marked <<

Adderbury

Beaux of London City <<

Black Joke <<

Cuckoo's Nest<<

Happy Man<<

Lads a Bunchum

Shepherd's Hey<<

Sweet Jenny Jones<<

Bampton

Bobbing Around<<

Bonny Green Garters<<

Step and Fetch Her<<

The Maid of the Mill<<

Corner dances to any number of tunes<<

(Rose Tree / Banbury Bill / Just at the Tide was Flowing)

Sidestep dances to any number of tunes<<

(Highland Mary / Forester / Blue Eyed Stranger / Brighton Camp / Quaker)

Bucknell

The Allen Key*<<

Black Joke*<<

Jack O Newbury*

Jonny So Long*<<

Princess Royal*<<

Room for the Cuckolds<<

The Blue-eyed Stranger

The Old Woman Tossed Up<<

The Twenty Ninth of May*<<

The Woodman*<<

* Dances of our own devising "in the style of" 
Download our PDF if you want to know how to dance them
BUCKNELL INSPIRED DANCES CREATED BY KENNET
 

Ducklington 

Green Garters

Nutting Girl

 Fieldtown

Balance the Straw <<

Country Gardens

Dearest Dickie <<

Old Molly Oxford (Step-back)

The Rose <<

Shepherds' Hey (Signposts) <<

Valentine

Hinton in the Hedges

Getting Upstairs

Lads a Bunchum

Shooting


 






Lichfield

Castlering

Milley’s Bequest

Nuts in May

Ring O Bells

Sherriff’s Ride

Vandalls of Hammerwich

Oddington

Constant Billy

Highland Mary

Young Collins 

Sherborne

How d'ye do?

Monk's March

Orange in Bloom 

Upton upon Severn

Stick dance <<

 

Processionals

Saturday Night (Bucknell)<<

Wheatley

Winster

... and a light hearted guide to the dances (and some others you may see)

<U-Spy Morris Dances>

... and the words of the songs to go with some of them
(be warned - we've been told some lyrics may offend!)
<Morris Songs>

... andthe 2024 Kennet dance notes for the officianandos
<Kennet Dance Notes>

... and the music dots to play along too

<Morris Tune scores >

... and some tunes by Matt Smee to dance along with

<Morris Tunes>

... and some Foolish Songs about Kennet
(see warning above!)...

<My Foolish Songs>

... and the words for Kennet Karols ...

<Kennet Karols Song Book>

<and all about our Karols>

<Clive Blunt's May Carols for 2019>
(Formatted for double sided printing to form an A5 song book)


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