Priston Morris started the new year well by almost being on time to welcome it in at noon. The side was somewhat reduced due to a mixture of illness, absence with leave, and some absence without leave, while one musician who was suffering from the night before struggled on manfully, regardless of the fact that [...]
With the advent of autumn, Priston Jubilee Morris is back in the hall at Priston Village for the practice season, following a fantastic 35th anniversary year of dance. This is the time when we learn new dances, sharpen up on old ones and start to make decisions about where we’d like to perform in the [...]
No rain, but some sunshine; it must be the end of summer and time for the Priston Festival! Just before noon on Sunday 16 September, Priston village was buzzing with activity on the green from a gathering audience perusing stalls and looking forward to the colourful performances of the forthcoming celebration of all things Morris. [...]
All too soon the fourteenth and final date on our Grand Jubilee Tour came to greet us. However, the summer-long dance extravaganza wasn’t going to pass us by without something of a celebration, and so we found ourselves at The Old Station Inn, Hallatrow in the company of Rag Morris. For those who don’t know, Rag was one [...]
Not content with being the 13th day in August, the penultimate date of our tour was also the thirteenth date on our Grand Jubilee Tour. For this auspicious date, we found ourselves at The Old Green Tree in Bath, alongside Somerset Morris and Billy No Mates Morris (the one-man Morris side), in support of the [...]
After having had so much fun with guest sides all through the summer, Monday night’s dance out proved that you don’t need a guest side to have a good time. The twelfth date on our Grand Jubilee Tour looked like it was going to be a quiet affair, but the punters at the Railway Inn, [...]
The eleventh date on the Grand Jubilee Tour continued at the Somerset Wagon in Chilcompton with Tatters and Tails, a brand new border side from Bath. Tatters and Tails may be new, having only formed in January 2012, but along with their colourful rag jackets and stunning painted faces, they come with a hearty dose of sticking and a staggering [...]
It was the big one! Our 10th date on the Grand Jubilee Tour and everything was well and truly stepped up a notch. Alongside the only other Jubilee Morris side in the country, Wyvern Jubilee Morris, this was the perfect opportunity for a 35th anniversary/Jubilee shindig and it all happened at The Horseshoe Inn, Shepton Mallet. As [...]
Morris may not be an Olympic sport, but that doesn’t mean Priston Morris hasn’t been involved. Earlier in the year, we danced alongside Somerset Morris at Bitton Railway to entertain the crowd before the Olympic Torch passed through. This morning, several members of the side shook a leg with bells on as part of the [...]
Number nine of the tour and it was back to the depths of Somerset and to the Alhampton Inn, near Castle Cary. Just to make it completely confusing, we danced out on a Tuesday, but as we were invited out by our good friends Dr Turberville’s Morris, it would have been churlish to have turned up [...]
