It was a cold, bleak, windy Sunday afternoon – and it was clear that the rain was keeping to its new year’s resolution to get out a lot more over the coming year. We were damp and windswept – but
Winter Solstice 2025
There’s always so much to do at Christmas, isn’t there? All the presents and bustle, the lists and planning. New Moon Morris dance at the top of Pitstone Hill on the 21st December in the midst of all this organisation
From Wassail to Sun Down – Maypoles and Mayhem
It’s been an extraordinarily successful year for New Moon Morris, and our November AGM seems like a good time to review what we’ve been up to….. By the end of 2024 we will have ‘danced out’ 38 times – that’s
Give Morris a try!
In September, like most other Morris sides around the country, New Moon Morris will be offering free trial sessions for dancers and musicians. For some Morris sides autumn is the only time of year that it is possible to join,
What have NMM been doing this year?
It’s half way through July already, and we’ve been so busy. We haven’t been at practice much in the last month or so, because we’ve been busy out dancing, either with other Morris sides, or at various events. In April
New Moon Morris – behind the scenes
When you see a morris side dancing, whether it is at your local pub, or at a festival, you may not have thought about what goes on behind the scenes, all the work that has gone into the performance on
New Moon Morris Sewing
There’s always sewing to be done – skirts, waistcoats, adjustments, etc. Today it’s been simple tasks. A new zip, a few inches off the waistline of a skirt. Hemming new hankies for our Cotswold dances – New Moon Morris is
Looking forward to 2024
New Moon Morris has ‘hit the ground running’ at the start of 2024. We’ve got so many great things planned. We are learning new dances, working on a new dance of our own – with very local roots, we’ve got