2024

2024 Media Archive

Dec 21, 2024: Winter Solstice, Granville Island, Vancouver BC, Canada. (Most of the photos courtesy of Bruce McPherson Photography)

Oct 29, 2024: All Souls Ritual, Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver BC, Canada. (Video & most of the photos courtesy of Bruce McPherson Photography)

Oct 20 2024: AppleFest, UBC Botanical Gardens, Vancouver BC, Canada -

Sep 28, 2024: Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Victoria's HollyTree Morris, Victoria BC, Canada -

Aug 6, 2024: Neighbourhood Tour, Trout Lake, Vancouver BC, Canada -
(Photos courtesy of Sandi Cleary)

Jul 16, 2024: Neighbourhood Tour, South False Creek & Olympic Village, Vancouver BC, Canada -
(Photos & videos courtesy of Bruce McPherson Photography and Brian Chisholm)

Jun 25, 2024: Morris Workshop, Secret Lantern HQ, Vancouver BC, Canada -

Before the doors opened, Steve and Graham prepared the deer horns for the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance

Audience and performers enjoyed each others' company while waiting for stragglers to arrive

Graham Baldwin, Squire of the Vancouver Morris Men, welcomed everyone and explained the history of Cotswold dances and his own 40-year connection to Morris traditions

...and then the Morris Men leapt into action!

Much leaping ensued. Was this Jenny Lind or Shepherd's hey?

Mandatory waving of hankies while wearing the white Cotswold kit

A mischievous dark horse invaded the proceedings and Oliver Schneider stepped in to fend it off

Man down! Fortunately, a maiden was summoned to revive him

It would not be Morris dancing without the ritual clashing of sticks

David Sanguinetti led the 3-man team in Jockie to the Fair

Konstantin Olchanski took advantage of the brief break in the otherwise non-stop dancing

Steve Cleary described the history of Welsh Border dances and his own personal connection of over 30 years to Morris culture

Audience participation was welcomed for the Dilwyn dance

Steve Crowley described how he collected the deer horns over a period of years, specifically to be used in the darkly mysterious Abbots Bromley Horn Dance

The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance involved 6 matching sets of antlers designed to interlock without maiming the dancers, now wearing their traditional rag coats

St. George and the King of Egypt's daughter prepare for the St. George Mummer's Play

Secret Lantern Society's owner dragon (created by karen Tang 12 years ago) oversaw the enacting the Mummer's Play, a crazed tale involving multiple characters and props too numerous to document. Needless to say, mayhem ensued!

More audience participation for Up the Middle and Down the Sides, one of the Molly dances

Jun 20, 2024: Summer Solstice Celebrations (with Tiddley Cove Morris), Kits Point, Vancouver BC -
(All these photos courtesy of Bruce McPherson Photography)