Rich Holmes
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Afterwards I realized I had this photo, taken 35 years ago in the same room by someone standing in almost exactly the same spot as the person who took my picture Saturday.
This was a morris dancing workshop with Phil Underwood of Thames Valley Morris (in England) teaching Oddington dances.
Some of these people I haven't seen in years, some I still see regularly. One besides me was even in the same room on Saturday.
#morrisDance #morrisDancing #folkDance #folkDancing #Syracuse #SyracuseNY
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The Syracuse Assembly
Return to a pivotal site
https://richardsholmes.com/doctroid/2026-05-10_the-syracuse-assembly/#EnglishCountryDance #EnglishCountryDancing #folkDance #folkDancing #Syracuse #SyracuseNY
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At the Syracuse Assembly
#EnglishCountryDance #EnglishCountryDancing #folkDance #folkDancing #Syracuse #SyracuseNY
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Syracuse May Day
#morrisDance #morrisDancing #folkDance #folkDancing #Syracuse #SyracuseNY
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The 2026 Gilbertsville tour is over. Saturday's weather was bad, forcing three stands indoors and one stand canceled. But we had a good time and our audiences did too. Sunday was sunny and warmer and we were out in the street again.
Here's the Binghamton Morris Men inside the Major's Inn in Gilbertsville, NY.
#morrisDance #morrisDancing #folkDance #folkDancing #Binghamton #BinghamtonNY
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The Binghamton Morris Men and guests will once more be performing morris dances on our annual Gilbertsville Tour in Otsego County, New York. The schedule:
This Saturday, April 25:
10:30 AM Commercial Street, Gilbertsville
12:30 PM Pathfinder Village, Edmeston
3:15 PM Pioneer Park, Cooperstown
4:45 PM Council Rock Brewery, CooperstownSunday April 26:
12:00 Noon Commercial Street, Gilbertsville
https://binghamtonmorris.wordpress.com/the-gilbertsville-morris-tour/
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In five days we'll be out morris dancing!
#itllBeFine #morrisDance #morrisDancing #folkDance #folkDancing
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Flipping the contradancing script
The young dance
https://richardsholmes.com/doctroid/2026-04-19_flipping-the-contradancing-script/
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Bouwerie Boys Morris Dancers perform "Boys of the Bunch" in Cooperstown, NY on the 2024 Gilbertsville Tour.
The 2026 tour begins in a week!
#morrisDance #morrisDancing #folkDance #folkDancing #melodeon
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Last year at Gilbertsville: The Binghamton Morris Men perform "John Peel" outside the Major's Inn.
The 2026 Gilbertsville Tour is just under two weeks away!
Saturday April 25:
10:30 AM Commercial Street, Gilbertsville, NY
12:30 PM Pathfinder Village, Edmeston, NY
3:15 PM Pioneer Park, Cooperstown, NY
4:45 PM (approx.) Council Rock Brewery, Cooperstown, NYSunday April 26:
12:00 Noon Commercial Street, Gilbertsville, NY -
Not only am I enough of a geek to have scripts that use pandoc, Python, and bash to assemble a pub songbook in epub format (a pub epub, as it were), now those scripts can check which song files are unknown to git and put them in a "New songs this edition" list at the front.
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Maybe everyone else knew about this a decade ago but the Vancouver Morris Men have a 170+ page songbook online:
https://vancouvermm.weebly.com/uploads/2/5/0/3/25034121/vmm_songbook_2006.pdf
Not all the songs are suitable for a capella pub singing (Dedicated Follower of Fashion for instance) but there's a lot that is. Tunes are up to you.
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Just got word the Syracuse Pub Sing is moving to second Sunday each month, 2–5 pm, at Seneca Street Brewpub in Manlius starting in January. All are welcome, come sing a song or just join in the choruses!
#singing #pubSing #folkSongs #folkSinging #Syracuse #SyracuseNY