A CD on Talking Elephant records The Magic of Morris 2 (TECD096) - features live recordings of 3 of our dances:
Old Bones danced to Barrack Hill;
Grim Reaper danced to Jan Mijne Man; and
Black and Amber danced to Go Mauve
There's also a version of Barry Goodman's Four Up played by The Morris On Band
- we dance Seven Up to this tune.
The tune we use for each of our dances is listed below
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- Maiden's Prayer
- Ricketts Hornpipe (trad) - has a nice little song about bananas and monkeys especially for the kids
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- Just as the tide was a-flowing
- tune from the song of the same name as sung by Shirley Collins of Sussex (trad)
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- Rochester Thistle
- Dark Girl (trad)
listen to a 30 second lo-fi recording of us dancing 'Thistle' to 'Dark Girl' (720KB mp3)
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- Black and Amber
- Go Mauve (Ian Luff)
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- Grim Reaper
- Jan Mijne Man (trad)
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- Wickerman
- William Taylor's Tabletop Hornpipe (Dave Shepherd)
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- Joanna Lumley
- Gladez (Jonathan Shorland)
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- The Wild Hunt
- If you can identify this tune Terry'll buy you a pint!
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- Seven Up
- Four Up (Barry Goodman)
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- Old Bones
- Barrack Hill from the playing of Bridget Reader (formerly of Chiltern Hundreds, Loose Women, Lost Women and Woolf's-Head&Vixen)
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- Processional
- An dro (trad)
All these tunes were arranged by Linda Dix.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Aldous Huxley)
