Day of Dance

Day of Dance 2002..........................

This years teams were.......

Inclognito ..............Barbara, Carrie, Paul and Val have performed together since June 1997.

In 1998 we danced at Upton upon Severn, Sidmouth and Towersey festivals as Clog on t'side, before reviving the name Inclognito, which we'd used a few years ago in Leeds.
Our local patch is the cross-Pennine gap around Burnley-Keighley, but we're happy to travel. We have links with Spinning Jelly, who play traditional English and Celtic music for concerts and ceilidhs.

Barbara is likely to burst into song if she forgets the steps:- Paul has allegedly played the melodeon quite fast at times:- Val
adds her distinctive humour to our performances :- Carrie was born with clogs on and has been winning competitions ever since.

Barley Break .............. Barley Break formed in 1979 to dance North West Morris and Garland dances. Our kit is a striking blue pinafore dress edged with yellow braid, complimented by a yellow blouse, underskirt and tights along with blue clogs. This season we have changed the design of our blouses.
Barley Break perform at festivals up and down the country and also at local events around Grimsby in North East Lincolnshire.

Yorkshire Coast ..........Yorkshire Coast Morris are based in Scarborough, but also have some members from as far away as Whitby and York. The mixed team was formed in 1979 and our repertoire includes Cotswold dances in the Adderbury, Bampton, Bucknell, Headington, Ilmington and Lichfield traditions, plus some Border style dances. Our costume is blue and white with red, blue and white ribbons, red and blue bell pads and decorated straw hats.

Each year in June we host Scarborough Fayre Morris Dance Festival to which all types of Morris dancers come from all over the UK. In the past three years we have also had sides from Alaska, Australia, and the USA at our festival.

Yorkshire Coast Morris have also established links with a group of Breton dancers from Pornic on the Atlantic coast of France; the team has been to them three times and the Breton dancers have visited Scarborough twice when they have performed and held dance workshops. Next year we hope to visit Scarborough's twin town of Osterode, in the Harz Mountains of Germany.

Yorkshire Chandelier.............Yorkshire Chandelier is a women's clog dance team from Sheffield, founded in 1975. We take our unusual name from the traditional corn dolly we carry with us. We can be recognised by our brown mill clogs and green and yellow kit. We perform a variety of North West clog and garland dances, plus a few from overseas, including a dance from Shepherdstown, Virginia which we learnt from a visiting American team (which just goes to show that you can teach old cloggies new tricks!).

Milltown Cloggies..........A team who, not surprisingly, given their title, dance in the North West Clog Morris Tradition. They come from the former Mill town of Glossop and wear distinctive
attire consisting of white dresses together with blue aprons and topped by straw hats. They have been established as a team for around ten years and their dancing is complemented by a fine band of musicians.
Another globe trotting team they have danced abroad, recently in France and have put in appearances at major folk festivals in the U.K.

Fidlers Fancy.............Although the exact year is not documented precisely, it is known that somewhere between 1885 and 1890 Charles Burgess Fidler, a fishmonger by trade, revived the tradition of morris dancing in Stockport. Following the growth of interest in morris dancing during the 70s Ollie Hosier and Stan Gee met with Mary Brown - Charles Fidler's grand-daughter the result was Fidler's Fancy Women's Morris

Southport Swords ............The Swords were formed in 1968 following a visit to
Hexham Folk Festival by two members of the Bothy Folk Club who were inspired by coming upon a rapper team in a pub. This interest continued later that year when the same two went to Keele Festival, learnt the Flamborough dance and co-opted others into the team.
After their debut performance that year the team took up the North Skelton longsword tradition, which has continued to be the team's mainstay to the current day.
The teams repertoire also includes the Papa Stour dance from the Shetland Isles, Newbiggin rapper (sparingly),
Elgin, and our own "Southport "dance created during long Northern winter nights to give spectators an idea of the features of the town.
To prove our versatility, (and make the Morris foreman feel wanted, as well as making paid bookings more
feasible) we also perform Morris dances, mainly from the
Adderbury and Bampton traditions.
Finally, we feel that it is only fair to use this opportunity to warn you that in spite of many years practice our singing has not improved.
We are always looking to expand our horizons so if you like what you see this weekend, and want to see more, visit us @ www.southportswords.org.uk.
Kit: White shirt with epaulettes and back flashes. Blue trousers with red cummerbund.

Singleton Cloggers .............Old Lancashire customs are disappearing thick and fast. However Singleton Cloggers are countering that trend with their traditional music and dance. We are officially classed as a North West Clog Morris team, a rather long term for what is essentially a group of men and women keeping tradition alive and having fun, whilst entertaining people. Our team are members of the Morris Federation, an organization which brings together dancers and musicians from the many varieties of English folk dance.

So what of our history. Singleton Cloggers were formed in 1949, leading the gala procession at Singleton village once a year. They were all local residents who performed in uniforms not too dissimilar to those we wear today. This continued until the team disbanded in the mid sixties.

Reformed in the early seventies and led by a local resident, Marjorie Ward, the team again led the village gala and started to dance at other local fetes and galas. New dances were added, some named after local landmarks, all of which were created by the team. Since this time the group has had many variations of uniform, however, the clogs have remained the constant. We now have over sixteen dancers and seven musicians and travel much further a field within the UK performing with other teams in colourful? dance and music extravaganzas, though we maintain our support to our roots which is the galas of Singleton, Weeton and Poulton-le-Fylde.

Fylde Coast Cloggers.........Formed in 1987 by Squire Sheila Mugan, the Fylde Coast Cloggers are a ladies north west clog dancing team from Lytham St Annes in Lancashire. The dancers perform with a range of implements which include mollys, garlands, bobbins & sticks.
A lively & exuberant team whose ages range from 12 to a 65 years young. Their colourful kit comprises of a white blouse, red skirt & green pinafore complete with an appliqué of the famous Lytham windmill on the bib. Finished off with straw boaters decorated with flowers.

Shaun the Sheep...........The sheep hail from Southport and were formed at Whitby Folk Festival, after a Rapper workshop. For them Rapper presents an exiting combination of speed, danger and thrilling challenge. The excitement of the speed, the danger of the sharp steel, the thrill of finishing without major injury and the challenge of doing it all in the right order simultaneously. The Sheep have danced the length and breadth of the British Isles: at the Millennium Dome, Whitby Sword Spectacular and two tours of Skye.


Furness Clog............A team from Ulverston that specialises in the clog step dances that form part of the Furness Tradition. They also do some lively North West Morris dances from time to time.
They are easily recognisable in their dark green skirts and multi coloured waistcoats. Their unique repertoire is much in demand and has recently taken them as far as Albert in France, Dublin and the Isle of Man

Mossley Rose & Clog............... A vibrant mixed team from the former mill town of Mossley who have a history going back to the middle eighties. The ladies wear red pinnies decorated with white and red hearts surmounted by straw hats decorated with flowers. The men wear black breeches with red waitcoats and traditional bowler hats. Over the years the team have devised and choreographed many of their own dances based on the influemces of the north west tradition..

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