This evening saw Hurst Morris Dancers entertain customers at the Jolly Farmer Pub in Davis Street Hurst, Wokingham. Pub owner Micheal Cobb said it’s nice to have local morris dancers at my pub during the summer months. The Sound of the Squeeze played nice with the old-time Morris dance display.
Pictures captured by My Wokinghams photographer Paul King show the clean crisp white and blue outfits worn by both men and women of the Hurst Morris Dancers.
Be inspired by Hurst Morris People by visiting their website at https://www.hump.org.uk/
There are lots of music events planned at the Jolly Farmer Pub, with a very big beer garden for the summertime. The pub also serves food day and evening time.
![Hurst Morris Dancers Hit Jolly Farmer 14](https://mywokingham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Wokingham-Pubs-1.jpg)
What is the reason for Morris dancing?
Morris dancing is a celebration, a display of dance and music performed at seasonal festivals and holidays to banish the dark of winter, celebrate the warmth and fertility of summer, and bring in autumn’s golden harvest.
When did Morris dancing originate?
The earliest known and surviving English written mention of Morris dance is dated to 1448, and records the payment of seven shillings to Morris dancers by the Goldsmiths’ Company in London.
Where do Morris dancers attach their bells?
This pair of bell pads came from Finstock, one of the major dancing centres in the Morris stronghold of the Wychwood Forest area of West Oxfordshire in the first half of the nineteenth century. Finstock used to hold a kind of village festival known as a Whitsun Ale; Finstock’s ceased to be held by about 1850.
Where do Morris dancers originate from?
Our style of dancing originated in the cotton mill towns and pit villages of the North West of England, where clogs were the usual type of working footwear and where the Morris tradition was performed by men, women and children.
What’s going on in Hurst?
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