BMM 2004 Photographs
Dancing with Guests, Lauterbacher Trachtengilde, April 2004
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Dancing in Broadmead for Folk Around May Day |  |
...with our guests from Lauterbach |
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Swirling skirts! | 
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Heini und Gertrud trip the light fantastic |
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Wave back, everyone! | 
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Who will win the fearsome duel between banjo and concertina? |
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Martyn's grown a bit since 1996, hasn't he? | 
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Only our Fool Antony could answer his mobile phone in mid dance! |
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Dave Byett gets a transfer to a German Band! | 
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Group photo, outside The Cottage |
May Day Weekend
This year the camping weekend coincided with May Day. Bristol Morris were able to have sides dancing both in Bristol (at sunrise) and Dorset (a bit later in the day for once), satisfying both of the side's traditions!
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The loyal band of sunrise dancers! | 
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....and their musicians |
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Meanwhile, other musicians were playing in Dorset | 
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Dancing at Corfe Castle |
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Demonstrating perfectly why BMM always stick in syncopation! | 
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Weyhill Fair at naughty Studland Bay. |
Dolphin Ring Meeting and Chippenham Festival, May 2004
We attended the Dolphin Ring Meeting in Nottinghamshire, and later that month made a regular appearance at the Chippenham Folk Festival.
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Some of our motley crew lurking in the hedgerows... | 
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"No, I haven't seen a Horse around here..." |
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Mark's Dad's side, but without Mark's Dad | 
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"We also play in a ceilidh band, you know..." |
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The most popular dance in our repertoire - Happy Man | 
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Processional down in Happy Man |
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Hands around in Happy Man | 
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And a processional up. (In the highly popular Happy Man, you know...) |
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Erstwhile Bristol Bagman Tim James, sticking with his "new" side, Richmondshire. Did you know they did the Bristol version of Happy Man as their display dance because it's so wonderful and good? | 
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The future Squire of The Ring and the current Bagman watching us do Happy Man with great enjoyment. |
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Nigel jams with Bert Cleaver | 
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At Chippenham Festival, dancing Audlem Bank |
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Audlem Hey | 
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A Bristol Morris man getting his leg over once again |
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And Martyn Rosser returns the favour | 
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"Thank God that's over! Now let's do Happy Man!" |
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Go ahead, punk, make me a Happy Man! | 
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Grant the Squire. My, he looks a Happy Man! |
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On stage at Chippenham, not Happy Man but Wheatley Trunkles | 
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In the olden days, ehen a sailor met an "Old Doxy", he was doubtless a Happy Man |
Dancing in Hannover, July 2004
We were invited to dance at the Hannover Schutzenfest, and were once again guest of our old friends Tanzkreis Hannover. We danced in the town centre on the Saturday, and on the Sunday joined in an immense march, dancing the Winster Processional for four kilometres!
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Pete Rees shows us how to get off the ground in Jockey to the Fair! | 
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We also did The Jubilee Dance |
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Here are some Ascott crossback steps | 
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And these, amazingly enough, are meant to be Ascott sidestep handmovements! |
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The rapper side gave a short inter-thunderstorm display | 
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Who forgot the sashes? |
Erik Day, October 2004
Because Earlsdon were unable to field a side for this year's Erik Day, Paul Rosser arranged, at short notice, a very successful cycle tour around Clevedon and Nailsea
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Setting off from the Rossers' House | 
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....whence to The Drum and Monkey at Kenn |
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Not dancing today due to injury, wudzi wore Erik's hat as a spectator | 
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The mastermind behind the Cycle Tour |
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From Kenn, we cycled to The Blue Flame at Nailsea, where we danced some more | 
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Andy, getting a lot out of a stick dance at The Blue Flame |
