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What a fab weekend this was! Sweyns Ey Morris were invited by Belle d’Vain Morris to this wonderful weekend of dance in the lovely town of Evesham after they saw us performing at last year's JMO Bath Day of Dance. It just goes to show, that the more you dance away from home, the more you will get noticed and invited to great events like this one.
Camp Sweyn was swiftly established on Friday evening with our gazebo and flag showing where to pitch tents. Evesham Rowing Club provided great facilities to help make the weekend the success it was. Friday night was spent playing & listening to the music session. Saturday saw us up early, breakfasted, and on one of the ten coaches that would take 30+ Morris sides to areas in the Vale of Evesham. We shared our coach with Hereburgh Morris, Ragged Oak Border, and Nancy Butterfly Clog and we were dropped at the Cornmarket at Worcester where each side did 2-3 dances before we moved on to the main shopping street where we performed a faultless Y Gaseg Eira. Droitwich was next visited and lunch and ale had at The Talbot Arms which was a very pleasant pub. Droitwich shopping precinct provided opportunity to dance, before we returned to The Talbot where we danced on land adjacent to it, and where, for the very first time, a ladies set of Sweyn’s Ey performed a perfect Brighton Camp Adderbury. Good to see girls! The following paragraph is Di's thoughts on this. 'MASSIVE thanks also to our fab musicians, Sian, Kevin and Roger, and to Morwen for calling the lady's set on Saturday. Felt like an important moment.. ' Return to the campsite followed a coach journey made more pleasant by singing, with highlights being being Ben’s rendition of The Pirate song and Nigel the Gossip John song. At the Gardens all sides performed a show dance and we gave a good account of ourselves by doing Y Gaseg Eira again. Then it was time to eat ice cream, drink tea and recover after the day’s exertions before joining the ceilidh with the band Banter for some more dancing that got the heart pounding a bit, or as Di and Kev did, join the music session at The Fleece. During the ceilidh, Sussex Junction Morris wowed everyone with their imaginative, and very athletic dancing. Sunday saw most of us woken at an unearthly time due to a hot air balloon landing in the adjacent field to take on paying clients but the dancing that took place later in the day needs to be described by another scribe as I was not there to see it! I understand the Side performed Postman's Knock as a show dance to the masses. Top marks to Belle d’Vain Morris who put on a really excellent weekend. We must go again! Most pics by Paul and Claire.
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