Membership of this community is restricted to NZ morris dancers, but the general public can get information on morris dancing in New Zealand from here.

 

Details of the 2009 tour are available on the Tour page.

 

I have added photos of various morris events under my Flickr sets:

or search on nzmorrisdancing

If anyone else adds photos to Flickr use tag nzmorrisdancing as well as any other obvious ones like morris dancing so we can all find 'em.

 

Check out the photos in the various albums under Pictures on the left. Let's get some more photos from the rest of you - join up and put your photos here as well. You can see some more photos at my old site:
http://www.geocities.com/bedlammorris/photos/photosm.html
Andy also has some photos from the 2002 tour at that Tour website.

 

There are sides (teams) around the country. Every year we meet up on a different part of the country for our national Tour.

 

Whangarei: Northland Morris - Mixed, Cotswold

Waiheke Island: Waiheke Island - Mixed, Cotswold - no longer meeting

Auckland: City of Auckland Morris Dancers - Mixed, Cotswold

Auckland: Green Man - Male, Mumming, Border, Cotswold

Auckland: Rag and Bone Morris - Mixed, Cotswold

Hamilton: Nag's Head - no longer meeting - there may be interest in starting something here

New Plymouth: Phoenix Morris - Mixed, Cotswold, North-West

Hastings: Heart of the Sun - Mixed, Cotswold

Palmerston North: Rosewood Morris - Mixed, Cotswold

Wellington: Britannic Bedlam Morris Gentlemen - Male, Cotswold

Wellington: White Rose - Female, North-West - practice with Bedlam on 3rd Wednesday of month

Wellington: Pride of Holland Street - Mixed, Cotswold - no longer meeting

Wellington: Maniacal Morris - Mixed, Cotswold - no longer meeting

Wellington: Vergin - Winter, Mixed, Border - use the Bedlam gentlemen's practice hall during the winter

Blenheim: Vintage Morris - Mixed, Cotswold

Christchurch: Erewhon - no longer meeting

Christchurch: Tussock Jumpers - Mixed, Cotswold

Christchurch: Nor'West Arch - Mixed, North-West

Dunedin: Jack Frost Morris - Mixed, Border, Cotswold - mainly a university side

Dunedin: Wickliffe Morris - no longer meeting

 

There are also stray Morris Dancers in various other parts of the country who join in whenever possible. A number of dancers are also clog dancers and you'll see some composite sets made up occasionally. Some are exiled in the UK and occasionally get together over there.

 

There are some regular Events where sides meet up from around the country (and world). And if you leave anything behind or find anything at one of these, post the details under Lost Property!

 

Check out Links for other useful sites, including Andrew Drawneek's video.

 

Email david barnes xtra co nz  for more information -you'll need to add the appropriate symbols   .@..  in the appropriate places  ( a . in the middle of my name especially).