Orange Peel Morris Dancers

Who We Are

History

• August, 1996 — Inaugural Meeting
• November, 1996 — First Dance-Out
• November, 1998 — Orange Peel Wort
• May, 2004 — England Tour

Fees and Costs

• Annual Membership Fee — $25
• Kit (Outfit/Costume) Fee — varies
• Ales, Worts, etc — $10 – $50
• Festivals, etc — Free Entrance

Practices and Rehearsals

• September to May: Thursdays from 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm, at The Avalon Nursing Home (Broadway West, Orangeville)
• May to September: Wednesdays from 7:30 pm – dusk, often at Alexandra Park, Second Street, behind the Opera House, Orangeville. Note: Summer practice locations change regularly. Call any member to confirm the location.

Dancers and Musicians

• Abby — dancer
• Ali — The Bag and dancer
• Betty — tambourine
• Cathy — dancer
• Chris — dancer, drum
• David — Ass's 'Oss
• Dickson — banjo, guitar
• Elizabeth — fiddle, dancer
• Elswyth — dancer, fiddle, concertina
• Eva — mandolin, violin
• Gabe — dancer and stick-swinger
• (Mary) Grainne — dancer, flute, concertina
• Jan — fiddle
• John — Dance Fore, nose flute, whistle, bodran
• Karen — drum, dancer
• Kate — dancer
• Len — barker, Fool, Dogsbody, and dancer
• Lucy — dancer
• Mark W. — Squire, fife, whistle, pipe and tabor, dancer (?)
• Nancy — violin, dancer
• Peter — accordion, dancer
• Pumpkin — whistle, dancer
• Robin — pipes, whistle, dancer
• Shannon — dancer
• Sherry — dancer
• Tina — bodran, triangle
• Tom — Music Fore, accordion, dancer
• Vic — dancer

 

Dance Repertoire

Border

• Boghouse Door
• Bromsberrow Heath
• Dilwyn (Dilbert)
• The Drunken Idiot
• Dufferin (Con-)Fusiliers
• Evesham
• Green Man
• Hunt The Hare
• Morning Star
• Mr. Dolly
• Much Wenlock
• Northumberland Musketeers
• Ockington Stick Dance
• Poston
• The Prisoner
• John Peel's Real Wheel

  ... in times past: The Upton-on-Cold-Barn Stick Dance / The Upton-on-Severn Stick Dance / Brimfield / Not Upton-on-Severn Stick Dance

Cotswold-Bampton

• Bonny Green Garters
• Cuckoo's Nest
• Highland Mary
• The Nutting Girl
• Princess Royal
• The Rose Tree
• Winster
• Young Collins (Bledington)

Links

• Orange Peel Home
• Orange Peel Gallery
• Orange Peel Wassail 2002
• Orange Peel Calendar

Local Links

• Toronto May Morning, 2001
• Toronto Ale, 2001
• Griff's pics
• Green Fiddle Morris

General Morris Links (most certainly not an exhaustive list!)

• Origin of the Morris ... some of it even serious ...
• Alphabetic List of Morris Dance & Sword Dance...
• Morris Links: Contents My favourite central listing!
• Morris Dancing
• Border Morris History
• Index to Roy Dommet's Border & Other Dance Notes
• Andy Anderson's Morris Stuff
• Ishmael on Morris Dancing
• ABC Library of Morris Tunes
• Folk Play Archive - Mumming Plays
• Contemporary Stave Dancing
• The pipe and tabor
• Pipe and Tabor, THE Morris Instrument
• Skink, Wil Macaulay's excellent simple ABC music software (for Mac, Windows, and more)

 

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Updated: 2005 July 26