Songs for the Dead

I'm very pleased to be working on a project (which is currently mostly a secret) with an old friend who is also billed as Aghartha for the Bang the Bore event mentioned in an earlier post. More on this soon!

 Tonight I went and sat by Meanwood Beck and listened for the low voices you sometimes hear in the rushing water, the moon was bright orange, low in the sky and dissolving from the top.

The melting snow had given the water a more oppressive sound though, Meanwood beck was in too much of a hurry to talk today. 

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I'll be performing my first Morris dance out at the Field of Wakes on the last weekend of February for the Rhubarb Festival, one of the dances will be a NW Morris version (with stomping and whooping!) of Mona's Delight, a lovely dance collected from the Isle of Man:

I'll be the one messing up the last figure. 

Otley Maypole and Buttercross Belles morris side

On May Day we had a quick jaunt to Otley to see the Maypole dancing which was very lovely, two of the local primary schools had taught classes the maypole dances and the Buttercross Belles, an Otley morris side, performed some folk dances to complement this. I wish we'd been able to get there to see them dancing up the sunrise on the Chevin!

I'm quite tempted by the open evening for joining the Belles...smocks ahoy



More photos on my new flickr page.... old flickr abandoned for now.