The Witchmen

the side everyone else wants to be (IVFDF 2006)

Musicians

The Witchmen have high quality musicians amongst the family members of the dancers. We do not recruit musicians.

Gender

We do distinctly masculine pagan fertility dances and all our dancers are men. We do rather like women though and unlike some dance sides (often their name includes the phrase 'morris men') we are not a bunch of bigoted old misogynists and we enjoy dancing out with both women's and mixed sides.

Dancing

No Morris dance experience is required as long as you can move in time to music.

Commitment

We practise most Sundays from October to late April between 11:30 and 1:00 in Isham village hall - near Kettering, Northants. You must be able to attend at least 75% of these practices (current members travel from Suffolk, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, West Yorkshire, Berkshire and Leicestershire).

We usually dance at about eight weekend folk festivals per year from May to September, plus a few one-offs in the winter, see our current bookings. You must be able to commit to the majority of these events.