VANCOUVER MORRIS MEN

Molly Dances

• The Morris Ring archives
  These archives contain twenty or so pages of historic information on Molly dancing, including:
  • a summary of the dances available according to the published evidence
  • "A Penny for the Plough Boys" by Russell Wortley
  • "Plough Monday 1933 at Little Downham" by William Palmer
  • "The Comberton Broom Dance" by Cyril Papworth
  • "Molly Dancing in South-West Cambridgeshire" by Russell Wortley & Cyril Papworth
  • "Molly Dancing in East Anglia" by Joseph Needham & Arthur Peck

• "Polka Round - The Cambridgeshire Feast Dances and Comberton Broom Dance" by Cyril Papworth
  This booklet was obtained from a dancer from Comberton visiting Vancouver.

• Molly Dancing" by Cyril Papworth
  This audio tape, containing both instructional details and music, was obtained from Michael Blanford during the 1994 Travelling Morrice.

• "Rattlebone & Ploughjack" by Ashley Hutchings
  This commercially available recording contains a number of Molly tunes on side B. (Side A contains Welsh Border tunes.)

• The Belchamp Ploughboys
  The Belchamp Ploughboys were filmed at the 1992 Saddleworth Rushcart festival. While they are believed to be primarily a Cotswold side (Belchamp St Paul Morris Men), they also perform Welsh Border and, on this occasion, Molly. Their sources are believed to be the Morris Ring archives.

THE DANCES

• Bird a Building
• Cross Hand Polka
• Double Change Sides
• Gypsies im the Woods
• College Hornpipe
• Six hand Reel
• The Special
• Up the Middle and Down the Sides

If you want to see some pictures of the VMM performing molly dances on Plough Sunday, January 1997, CLICK HERE.

If you want to see some pictures of the VMM performing molly dances on Plough Sunday, January 1998, CLICK HERE.

If you want to see some pictures of the VMM performing molly dances on Plough Sunday, January 2000, CLICK HERE.