The Leominster Morris

The current LEOMINSTER MORRIS was formed in 1983 by men who had danced in other sides, in particular Breinton Morris, but who found themselves living in and around the town, with a common desire to revive the old Leominster Tradition.

We dance prodominantly local Welsh Border dances, but also some Cotswold dances. In the winter we concentrate on the local dances, as this is the traditional time of year to dance in our county. We wear our winter kit of black shirt and trousers with coloured jackets and we black our face, in accourdance with the Welsh Border Morris Tradition. From May Day until autunm Equinox we wear white shirts and stop blacking our faces.

Many Morris sides have a Fool, Old Dame or Man-Animal, representing variously chaos, fertility and who knows what mysterious pagan beliefs. Our man-animal figure is the Ryeland Ram, because the wealth of Leominster in the middle ages was built on peerless fleeces of the local breed of sheep.

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