Foresters Morris Men
The Foresters Morris and Sword Dancing Club
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Foresters music

         

 


Foresters Morris as part of the Chatsworth House Spectacular.
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Our dance musicians include accordion (Eric), melodeon (Simon, Mike) (if you class melodeon as music), recorder (Simon), pipe & tabor (Barrie) and bodhran players (William is definitely 3rd bodhran). Our version of the music is available in both audio and printed form, see the repertoire information and the links below. The "mp3" audio files are played by Eric Foxley on a 48-bass Hohner Student VM, and are also available as two CDs. The printed scores come from on the Nottingham Folk Music Database. For advice on playing for dancing, see the Playing for dancing document originally produced by Eric Foxley for an EFDSS working party; although this is aimed at playing for community folk dancing, many points are very relevant to playing for morris.

We also enjoy singing songs and playing in pubs after a dance tour - and drinking excellent Mallard beer.

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Eric Foxley is (through long-standing family connections) the owner of one of Cecil Sharp's three-hole wooden pipes made specially by Dolmetsch.

See also the international index of music scores available on the WWW.

   
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