Black Bess Border Morris
These are the things we do every year - usually!
The first ‘Out’ is with many other sides at Grimspound’s celebration of Spring: The Green Man day at Bovey Tracy, where the Green Man is paraded
through the streets
Then there is the cold and wet of a May Day Dawn, usually on Dartmoor
Then in the warm, bright Sunshine (we hope) of the May bank holiday we are to be found among the regular performers at the
Denbury May Fair (or is that ‘fayre’)
Next, another regular festival, this time at Lyme Regis
By then, we are approaching midsummer, so it’s up to Dartmoor again to dance on the evening of the Solstice
Almost immediately after that will come the weekend of the Teignmouth Festival where we often lead the Saturday morning procession
to the town centre (we get invited to do this, as our drummer has a great big drum and knows the route)
That was July, now August approaches, bringing the Sidmouth Folk Festival, where we spend the opening Saturday dancing at various places around
the town, staring at the Bedford Hotel, joining old and new friends, and ending up in the market square for (more) beer and icecream
Is that it, until next spring? No, despite the Autumn mists and chills, there’s the ‘Pudsey’ Day of Dance, organised by Dartmoor Border Morris to support
Children in Need, on a Saturday in mid-November
It’s not over yet, there’s a Winter Saturday afternoon, cheering up the weary Christmas Shoppers in Newton Abbot, and a bit of dancing to accompany
the local Carol Singers in the village of Marldon.
