Ouse Washes Molly Dancers
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Genre: Folk
Location UK
Profile Views: 9692
Last Login: 10/18/2010
Member Since 5/8/2008
Website www.ousewashes.com
Record Label Unsigned
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Bio
Based in Norfolk, apart from Seven Champions Molly, we are the most established group of molly dancers in the UK. Molly dance was the traditional dance of East Anglian farmworkers, originally practiced on a day called Plough Monday, when ploughboys in the region would beg for money from rich landowners in their villages. If they didn't pay up the molly dancers would drag a plough across their front garden! It was common practice for the dancers to blacken their faces to avoid recognition, hence our disguise. We have been dancing since the mid-1980's and have performed at every major folk festival in the UK and many festivals in the rest of Europe. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ............ ...... .......... Some piccies from our recent ROOKERY FARM weekend: .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...................... And a few from our regular Boxing Day outing, which in 2007, was at the Dabbling Duck, Great Massingham .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...................... -
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We have members of both sexes and all ages from 14-60 years of age! We welcome newcomers, dancers and musicians, as long as they have a vague sense of humour and a certain level of eccentricity! -
Influences
Cyril Papwoth, Seven Champions and Alcohol! -
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Nothing else on earth. You have to see us to understand..... .. .. .. .. ..
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Bio:
Based in Norfolk, apart from Seven Champions Molly, we are the most established group of molly dancers in the UK. Molly dance was the traditional dance of East Anglian farmworkers, originally practiced on a day called Plough Monday, when ploughboys in the region would beg for money from rich landowners in their villages. If they didn't pay up the molly dancers would drag a plough across their front garden! It was common practice for the dancers to blacken their faces to avoid recognition, hence our disguise. We have been dancing since the mid-1980's and have performed at every major folk festival in the UK and many festivals in the rest of Europe...
Some piccies from our recent ROOKERY FARM weekend:
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And a few from our regular Boxing Day outing, which in 2007, was at the Dabbling Duck, Great Massingham
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Hey!
Hello,How are you ?
Hello,thanks add!
Hey guys, are going to be dancing anywhere up north?
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on MySpace...
Poem cum song 5 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (see my Blog for details):
STATE TO STATE
(TUNE:
C F G F
C F G F
C F G F
C F G F
F G F C
F G F C
F G F C
C F F F)
From Sydney Town,
In uni. break,
I drove out west
To earnings make
Onion picking,
On the fields
Of Echuca,
That year’s yields.
After day’s work,
From Y.H.A.,
A group of us
Would not delay
To walk on down
To the dirt rim
Of the Murray,
For a cool swim.
On one such day,
I do declare,
Some three of us
Had a big dare
To swim across,
From state to state,
The wide Murray -
I took the bait.
Yes, foolishly,
I took the bait -
A choice that I
Would come to hate,
For I almost
Did drown that date,
Making the swim
From state to state.
(C) David Franks 2003
Hi and thanks for the friendship. Hope to share a dance spot with you all soon!
Beds Lace
Hey Guys!
Thanks for the add, nice to see some familiar faces....
Keep on keepin' on!
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Welcome to Life & Times' group of Myspace friends.
Graeme Meek
www.lifeandtimes.info
Thanks for the friendship!
Come and see our performance of the Beggar's Opera at Sidmouth FolkWeek in Devon on 2nd August
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