Upcoming Performances
Saturday May 10 in Quincy, Mass. as part of our
"Kettle of Fish" Ale
Sunday May 11 at the Arnold Arboretum as part of the Arboretum's annual
Lilac
Sunday celebration.
Who We Are
Red Herring Morris is a mixed morris dance team, which was formed in January, 2000 by a merger of Lemon & Capers Morris and Middlesex Morris. Our repertoire consists of Cotswold morris dances in the styles of Duns Tew and Sherborne, and border morris dances. We practice on Wednesday nights in Belmont, Massachusetts (USA).
Red Herring Morris is always looking for new dancers and musicians. If you can jump up and down for a few minutes at a time, you can learn to morris dance. (If you've just tried it, you should definitely look us up!) And if you're a musician with a portable instrument and can play fairly simple folk tunes in the key of G (which you wouldn't mind having in your head for several hours after practice), you should look us up too!
About Herrings
Some fishes become extinct, but herrings go on forever. Herrings spawn at all times and places and nothing will induce them to change their ways. They have no fish control. Herrings congregate in schools, where they learn nothing at all. They move in vast numbers in May and October.
Will Cuppy, How to Become Extinct, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1984, p. 13.
Ubiquitous paragraph on Morris origins
Morris is a seasonal ritual dance performed in England, and more recently in other countries as well. There are many proposed theories for the origin of the morris. These are, in general, mutually contradictory and based mostly on fantasy and misunderstanding. We will therefore refrain from embracing any particular theory on this site.
If you have followed the above link several times and you are still confused, you should probably watch us dance and decide for yourself.
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