Morris Dancing FAQs

Australian Morris Ring: Australia has its own Ring organization, although it differs markedly from its English counterpart and model in allowing membership by both women's and mixed sides. The AMR publishes an occasional unarchived newsletter entitled "Morris Meditations".; • Homepage: <http://www.morris.org.au/AMR/>; • Directory: <http://www.morris.org.au/AMR/austsides.htm>; • Maintainer: Gail Miller <squire@morris.org.au>; • Categories: Directories : Organizations

FAQ Entry Updated: 2006-03-14

Carnival Morris Sides: A listing of carnival morris sides is available as part of the Morris Dancing Wiki.; • Sides: <http://morrisdancing.wikia.com/wiki/Carnival_morris_teams>; • Maintainer: Richard Holmes [Contact Form]; • Categories: Carnival Morris : Directories

FAQ Entry Updated: 2008-03-13

Country Dance and Song Society : CDSS: A USA-based organization founded in 1915 with the help of Cecil Sharp to preserve and celebrate English and Anglo-American folk dance and music. CDSS is a nonprofit organization supported by membership dues, donations, program fees and sales. Publishes "The Country Dancer" and "CDSS News" as privileges of membership. The Country Dance and Song Society maintains a directory of affiliate groups around the country including many North American morris groups.; • Homepage: <http://www.cdss.org/>; • Sales: <http://www.cdss.org/sales/>; • Group Affiliates: <http://www.cdss.org/grp_addr_list.html>; • Maintainer: Brad Foster <brad.foster@cdss.org>; • Categories: Directories : Organizations : Sales/Shops

FAQ Entry Updated: 2002-12-05

Directory of Online Morris Dancers - DOOMD: Rich Holmes maintains the Directory of Online Morris Dancers (aka DOOMD), which has listings for many morris dancers on the Internet including most of the current subscribers of the MDDL. The DOOMD is updated frequently, usually at least once a month. To be listed in the DOOMD, submit information about yourself by filling out the online DOOMD questionnaire form. Participation is voluntary.; • Directory: <http://www.richholmes.net/morris/doomd.html>; • Questionnaire: <http://www.richholmes.net/morris/q.html>; • Maintainer: Richard Holmes [Contact Form]; • Categories: Directories

FAQ Entry Updated: 2002-11-11

dmoz : open directory project: The Open Directory provides the means for the Internet to organize itself. As the Internet grows, so do the number of net-citizens. These citizens can each organize a small portion of the web and present it back to the rest of the population, culling out the bad and useless and keeping only the best content. [Mozilla icon by Philip Preen.]; • Morris Directory: <http://dmoz.org/Arts/Performing_Arts/Dance/Morris_Dancing/>; • Maintainer: Phil Preen <philweb@thehat.free-online.co.uk>; • Categories: Directories

FAQ Entry Updated: 2006-05-07

Folk Dance Association: Folk Dance Association provides services and information for folk dancers, folk dance leaders and folk dance groups throughout the United States and Canada. They maintain a 120+ page web site, a major part of which is the Folk Dance Directory, with extensive linkages to other organizations' websites and contact information. Morris teams are included as part of their coverage of English Ritual Dance.; • Homepage: <http://www.folkdancing.org/>; • Directory: <http://www.folkdancing.org/fd_directory.html>; • English Ritual Links: <http://www.folkdancing.org/about_eng_ritual.html>; • Categories: Directories : Organizations

FAQ Entry Updated: 2002-11-11

List of Morris and Sword Sides: This website is a catalog of information about sides (teams) that perform morris, sword, and other related English performance-oriented folk dance styles. It is comprised of three separate listings: an alphabetical listing of teams, a list arranged by country, and a list arranged by dance type. Jeff's list differs from others on the web in that it tries to comprehensively list all teams, not just those with web pages.; Note: This site hasn't been updated since about 2003, so use the contact information with some caution.; • Alphabetic: <http://www.mit.edu/people/jcb/morris-teams.html>; • Geographic: <http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/morris/geo.html>; • Style: <http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/morris/style.html>; • Maintainer: Jeff Bigler [Contact Form]; • Categories: Directories

FAQ Entry Updated: 2006-03-23

Mainly Morris Dancing: Mainly Morris Dancing has an excellent listing of UK and US sides. John has been making a tremendous effort to keep this directory up to date and it probably the best alphabetical listing of teams. Also has links to all the morris organization team contact lists. Concludes with a miscellany of links to books, articles on morris and related folk pages.; • Homepage: <http://www.mainlymorrisdancing.org.uk/>; • Maintainer: John Maher <j.p.maher@gmail.com>; • Categories: Directories

FAQ Entry Updated: 2005-06-30

Master Mummers

The creator of this useful site notes that the "Master Mummers is not in competition with the TDRG's www.folkplay.info website. Rather, Master Mummers complements it with new interactive resources. In fact you could call it the 'colour supplement' to the Folk Play Research website." The Master Mummers website currently holds:

A worldwide Directory of Folk Play Groups - details of over 250 groups, compiled from publicly available information. Mummers, guisers, and other folk play groups are encouraged to add or correct their entry in the listing
A Folk Play Scripts Explorer - that lets you search the scripts database by keyword, examine variants of the lines found, plot distribution maps for them, and so forth.
The beginnings of a 'Frequently Asked Questions' section - currently mainly performance advice.
A general mapping utility - letting you plot your own simple British & Irish distribution maps, using lists of OS & OSI Grid References.

The Directory of Folk Play Groups has been enhanced with a maps mashup where provided latitude and longitude coordinates displays the location in an embedded Google Map. For the UK, Grid References link to Ordnance Survey maps. At its simplest, you can display a map and/or satellite image of a group's home town. Alternatively, you can view a distribution map for a set of search results, and click on the markers for more information.

• Home: <http://www.mastermummers.org/>

• Directory of Folk Play Groups [Map Mashup]: <http://www.mastermummers.org/groupslist.php?format=googlemap&otCode=G>

• Maintainer: Peter Millington <peter.millington1@virgin.net>

• Categories: Directories : Events : History : Mumming/Ritual Drama

FAQ Entry Updated: 2007-07-21

Morris Dancing WebRing: Phil Preen created and maintains the Morris Dancing WebRing. This is a voluntary listing service for morris teams. Every team can register itself in the directory and receives a persistent identifier to the website that can be updated even when the original URL changes.; • Homepage: <http://www.philpreen.co.uk/folk/morris/webring/>; • Maintainer: Phil Preen <philweb@thehat.free-online.co.uk>; • Categories: Directories

FAQ Entry Updated: 2002-12-05

Morris Federation: Formed in 1975 as Women's Morris Federation, the Morris Federation is now open to all morris sides. Membership includes receipt of the quarterly Morris Federation Newsletter. Use of the Federation's Library and Archives is available to both members and nonmembers. Provides a team membership directory organized by team name with contact information. Links to team web pages are provided when available.; • Homepage: <http://www.morrisfed.org/>; • Directory: <http://www.morrisfed.org/mf/members/Alist.shtml>; • Sales: <http://www.morrisfed.org/mf/shopuk.html>; • Maintainer: Kevin Taylor [Contact Form]; • Categories: Directories : Organizations : Sales/Shops

FAQ Entry Updated: 2002-12-03

Morris Links : A compendium of all known morris-related web sites: Morris Links is a compendium of all known morris links and Rich knows a lot of them. Arranged geographically by country, and further subdivided by county in England or state, province or region in other countries. In addition, it contains links to articles and websites that mention the morris. In 2006, he moved this service over to a wiki format so that teams can edit their own entries.; • Homepage: <http://morrisdancing.wikia.com/wiki/Morris_teams_directory>; • Maintainer: Richard Holmes [Contact Form]; • Categories: Directories

FAQ Entry Updated: 2006-05-07

Morris Organizations' Combined Membership List: This list, compiled by Val Parker, combines the membership lists of all three morris organizations in England: The Morris Ring, The Morris Federation, and Open Morris. It is arranged by county in England. This is probably the most comprehensive list for UK teams.; • Homepage: <http://www.argonet.co.uk/homepages/johnmaher/Val.htm>; • Maintainer: John Maher <j.p.maher@gmail.com>; • Categories: Directories

FAQ Entry Updated: 2002-11-17

Morris Ring - Members and Officers: Alphabetic list of Morris Ring sides arranged by team name with contact person's name, phone number and, when available, email address and web page. There is also a list of Ring officers and contacts.; • Directory: <http://www.TheMorrisRing.org/Mem.htm>; • Officers: <http://www.themorrisring.org/Off.htm>; • Maintainer: John Maher <j.p.maher@gmail.com>; • Categories: Directories : Organizations

FAQ Entry Updated: 2002-11-11

MorrisDancing.Org: A central index page jointly sponsored by the three English morris organizations: The Morris Ring, The Morris Federation, and Open Morris. Meant to be a portal to all the morris organizations, or lacking that, finding aids for morris teams around the world. Host of the SideFinder, a map-driven database to find the nearest morris sides by location using the British Ordnance Survey Grid reference system. First click on the map in the approximate location you want information for. You will be taken to a second map where you can refine your location to within 1km. Database provides phone, email contact, and webpage information, when available.; • Homepage: <http://www.morrisdancing.org/>; • SideFinder: <http://www.morrisdancing.org/finder/sfcgi.html>; • Position Paper: <http://www.morrisdancing.org/strategy.html>; • Maintainer: Kevin Taylor [Contact Form]; • Categories: Directories : Organizations

FAQ Entry Updated: 2002-11-11

Mumming Teams: Rich Holmes keeps a page listing Mumming Teams as part of his larger Morris Links website.; • Home: <http://morrisdancing.wikia.com/wiki/Mumming_teams>; • Maintainer: Richard Holmes [Contact Form]; • Categories: Directories : Mumming/Ritual Drama

FAQ Entry Updated: 2006-05-07

New Zealand Morris Dancing: Strictly speaking, this is a web-based community for New Zealand morris sides, rather than a organization. Membership in this community is restricted to NZ morris dancers, but the general public can get information on morris dancing in New Zealand from here. There are lists of tours and dance events and a partial directory of sides.; • Homepage: <http://morrisdancing.org.nz/>; • Maintainer: David Barnes <david.barnes@xtra.co.nz>; • Categories: Directories : Organizations

FAQ Entry Updated: 2002-11-11

Open Morris: The Open Morris is a federation of British morris sides with a particular mission of support and encouragement for mixed sides. Publishes "Dancing On" as a privilege of membership (no online content). Individual memberships available. Maintains an online membership directory organized by team name with contact person's name, location, and phone number. Links to team web pages are provided when available.; • Homepage: <http://www.open-morris.com/>; • Maintainer: Jan Wong <jlw1002@cus.cam.ac.uk>; • Categories: Directories : Organizations : Periodicals/Newsletters

FAQ Entry Updated: 2003-11-18

The NUT: The NUT on the Net is the internet edition of The NUT, the journal of the Northumbrian rapper sword dance. The NUT on the Net aims to provide visitors with an insight into the rapper sword dance and rapper sword dancers, as well as to act as an information source for rapper sword dancers. The NUT on the Net includes news from the rapper world, together with an event calendar, an archive of selected articles previously published in The NUT, details of rapper teams worldwide and related links.; • Homepage: <http://www.rapper.org.uk/the-nut/>; • Directory: <http://www.rapper.org.uk/the-nut/teams/>; • Maintainer: John Asher <john.asher@btinternet.com>; • Categories: Directories : Periodicals/Newsletters

FAQ Entry Updated: 2002-12-07