Rag Morris
Who Are We? Book Us! See more below!!
A big hello to all visiting here, whether you're interested in folk music, morris dancing or both, welcome to the Rag Morris and Folk Club website!
UPCOMING
For our next outing, this coming weekend, Rag Morris will be heading to the seaside as we join the Brighton Morris Men for their annual Day of Dance in their home town!
On Mondays we have our regular Folk Club session, bring along your instruments, singing voices and listening ears.
We have morris dancing practice every Thursday, (except this, the Summer term, it will be fortnightly: check our practice calendar) you can find us in the Art Room, on the 6th floor of the Students Union, from 8.00 - 10.00pm. If you couldn't make it to a previous practice then no worries, it's never too late to come along and try a bit of dancing. It's free, it's fun and you'll learn something completely new!
Photo © Clive Thomas
WHO ARE WE?
We are the Morris dance team attached to the University of Bristol and we have one of the longest continuous University connections in the country. Though some of our members are non-students or ex-students, Rag Morris are an officially recognised society of the University of Bristol Students' Union.
Rag Morris has acquired its own inimitable style over the last thirty years - energetic, colourful, comic, a bit 'off-the-wall' and certainly never boring. We wear brilliantly coloured 'rag shirts' and bell ribbons. Our repertoire comes from the dances of the Cotswold Hills and the wild Welsh Borders, and we dance with sticks, hankies, bare hands and plastic chickens, to the accompaniment of fiddles, melodeons, accordions, whistles and drums. Then there's our faithful, if slightly camp, horse called Rags who sometimes dances out with us.
We like to travel (all offers of somewhere to sleep and free travel gratefully accepted!). In 2006 we went to Belgium and visited Volkskunstgroep Boerke Naas, while 2007 featured a tour de France. In 2008 we held a canal tour through Oxfordshire which left us so traumatised (no, really it was tremendous, if wet, fun!) that we stayed at home in 2009 and 2010. In 2011 we ventured abroad once again with a trip to northern France. This year, 2012, we once again visited our friends in Flanders, Volkskunstgroep Boerke Naas, for their mid-Lent celebrations.
Rag Morris is a member of Open Morris
BOOK US!
We are always happy to consider invitations to dance at Festivals, Fêtes, Wassails, Weddings and any other event you can think of! To find out more information please contact:
bag@ragmorris.com or squire@ragmorris.com
WANT TO JOIN US?
We practise at 20:00 in term time (vacation time may be earlier) every Thursday night at the Students' Union Building, Queen's Road, Clifton, Bristol, England. Do check the Google Calendar beforehand if you're not a regular attender.
New recruits are always welcome. We recruit especially at the beginning of October, when we begin the teaching year, but don't let that stop you! Get in touch and come, to dance or play, whoever you are!
If you're a UBU member you can join the society by visiting and logging in here or simply Contact Us.
bag@ragmorris.com or squire@ragmorris.com
