Author Archives: Caroline Batson

Sound and Fury Morris, Seattle, WA dancing the sun up at gasworks park.

Caprock Morris; also the Brothers Grimm (junior side); Chris Smith (button box/squire), Holly Terror, Morgan le Fay, Captain Death, Wee Ellen, Long Jaren, Lubbock TX. Dancing Border morris and rapper since 2010; website: http://caprockmorris.com/  

Were you still in bed at 5.30am? Soose wasn’t, she was at Runnymede, seeing in the summer with the Datchet Border Morris dancers!

Rock Creek Morris Women had a veritable Morris Orchestra at our Dawn Dance at the Old Town Gazebo in Takoma Park, Maryland… including musicians from Rock Creek Morris Women, Foggy Bottom Morris Men, and Arlington Northwest Morris. (photo by Jennifer Cutting)  

Arlington Northwest Morris had to drive over from Virginia at a ridiculously early hour to get to Maryland before Sunrise! They were part of the three-team annual Dawn Dance at the Old Town Gazebo in Takoma Park, Maryland.  

Kids perform a Border Morris Dance (Mr. Dolly) at sun up in Thetford Hill, VT: Karina, Dylan, Juniper, Wednesday, Xia, Evelyn, Sage, Nacio, Rebecca, Sophia, Nicki, Emily. (video by Sherry Merrick)    

Maypole in Harvard Yard this morning.  

May Day morning in Dublin, NH.

On the Border Morris dances the sun up in Burlington, VT.

Lisa Sieverts said: “Taking scones to May Day, to thank Jack-in-the-Green and Harrisville Morris Women for dancing up the sun.”