Maypole and Morris dancers at the Folk School

While we were there, since it was the first weekend in May, they had a Maypole and a demo by Morris dancers . We took a break from candle making and honey extracting and watched them.

The Morris dancers were male and female and had blue face make-up. They dance with broomstick-like sticks which are clanked together with the stick of another dancer. They were accompanied by a funny group of instrumentalists playing a recorder, a bent tuba, and a drum decorated with a red feather boa!