Who’s who? |
Role | Quote | Passion |
![]() Ian Wild |
Squire, responsible for calling the dances and engaging with the audience | Sorry I’m late | Yerkshire, beer, dancing |
![]() Ian Bloomfield |
Ex Squire and founder member. Responsible for upholding of tradition and skillfully establishing bonhomie with hard-to-please audiences |
They’re not hankies, they’re Wavers |
Shakespeare Morris |
![]() Duncan Harrington |
The Bagman, responsible for organising the calendar, rehearsal bookings, keeper of the money bag |
Wait……. | Preservation of Wessex Stave Dance especially those of Stourton Caundle & Fifehead Magdalen, Dorset |
![]() The Staves |
Replicas of those carried by the Bradninch Tradesmen’s Friendly Society which met at the Spread Eagle pub on Cullompton Hill from 1842 until 1909 |
The Hatch Beauchamp (pronounced Beecham) Friendly Society near Taunton stipulated that “the pole must be blue and not less than a yard and a half of blue ribbon attached” | See Wikipedia |
![]() Gerard Edwards |
The Foreman, teaching and striving to perfect a style, planning practice sessions, researching and introduction of new styles, traditions and dances, devising the event programmes and supplying order sheet to musicians | The timing made sense when I wrote it down, but was that for the A or the B music I wonder? | Folk Music and Devon Rock – carboniferous sandstones and shales are current favourites |
![]() Jenny Richards |
Rag Lady. Uniform policy and very good with needle & bells. Her little friend Brad is exhibited at Museum of British Folklore | Jam & Jerusalem but never Jazz | |
![]() Nancy
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Media-savvy, former Bagman has dragged the side into the technological era. Got rythmn. | One, two and clash, four, five and clash, six, seven back at your place. |
Ex – Rag Morris, Ex- Mayhem Morris, Current – Bootstrap Border Morris |