Welcome to S - V - M!
01/05/08
Summer is here; the Dance season has begun!
Across the next 5 months you can expect, should you happen to be out at the pub on a Wednesday evening, your quiet end-of-the-day drink to be cheekily disturbed by our eccentric and colourful Morris side! Even weekend pub-goers are not safe; we can be found causing upheaval and merriment at a range of folk festivals and weekend stands this season - direct your attention to the Events Calendar page for full details.
As a side note, SVM are still searching for a permanent practice venue, which will be needed come the Autumn. If anyone has a suggestion in this regard, please contact:
Milla the Bag 01273 700082
Sompting Village Morris
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Contact us
Please contact the Bag person about any of the Sompting Village Morris calendar items, or to have us perform for you. You can also contact the Bag to become a Sompting Village Morris member.
e-mail: s-v-m @ live.co.uk
Welcome to the new 2008 website for Somting Village Morris
Formed in 1978, Sompting Village Morris are a traditional English morris side with more than 60 members, made up of a men's team, a women's team and a band of versatile musicians. Sompting Village Morris dance many morris traditions including Cotswold, Sussex, North West, and Border Morris.
Sompting Village Morris dance most Summer Wednesday evenings at pubs in and around the Worthing area of Sussex.
We celebrate the traditional festival of MayDay (1st of May) with an early morning procession in Worthing town centre and seafront, followed by the crowning of the May Queen.
For the Summer Solstice (21st of June) we dance down the sun at Highdown Hill with a beacon and processional torches. In the Autumn we promote the 'Battle of the Conkers'.
We dance at Christmas and New Year, also enacting a traditional Tipteerers' (Mummers) play, the local origins of which have been traced back to the 1800s.
We celebrate the ancient Wassail on January the 5th with a torchlit procession down Tarring High Street, accompanied by drums and whistles. This boisterous event always goes with a BANG!
Sompting Village Morris have appeared at many national Folk Festivals including Rochester, Wadebridge and Faversham. We have also danced in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, France, Holland and Belgium and hope to visit other countries in the future.
Comments
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It was wonderful to watch you all performing this morning for a traditional May Day.
I hope you like the film and photographs - http://www.worthingherald.co.uk/worthing/VIDEO-May-Morris-Dancing-in.4041442.jp
(Posted on 2008-05-01 14:09:00 by ) -
We can offer some rubber sticks very cheap!!!!!
Health & Safety strikes again.
Best wishes on behalf of Tæppa's Tump
(Posted on 2008-01-28 20:33:00 by ) -
Hello Simon
I was just checking out the new site and saw that there are no photo's. Will there be some on here soon as i like chekcin them out every now and then?
thank you x
(Posted on 2008-01-10 15:06:00 by ) -
Thanks for adding our link, Peter. I'm planning to add our links section sometime soon; if anyone has an appropriate link they'd like included, feel free to email me/post it here.
(Posted on 2008-01-06 20:08:00 by ) -
Hi Simon, I just put your new website address on the links page of our site. See you on NY day at the Cobden. Peter
(Posted on 2007-12-30 12:27:00 by ) -
1. Sorry about the Boxing Day details not being up here. I took them off, having been told that this website wasn't going to be looked at until Boxing Day itself, my bad.
2. I'm aware that there's a problem with the Bigfoot email, but thanks for pointing it out. I'll look into that; in the meantime you can send any emails directly to s-v-m@live.co.uk - we've tested it, it works.
(Posted on 2007-12-28 14:42:00 by ) -
I believe they are playing the black horse in findon but this was posted a while ago another web sight mentions a pub in Arundel so confirmation would be nice?
(Posted on 2007-12-26 08:35:00 by ) -
Mike Brayshaw  2007.12.26 07:51
On the offchance that this gets looked at in the next few hours, are you performing today, Boxing Day? This website gives details from 1 January but presumably December's diary was on your old website, no longer available.
Also note that your email address given above (s-v-m@bigfoot.com) forwards to s-v-m@live.co.uk which bounces - also defunct?
(This may be a duplicate - on first attempt I wasn't offered "Subit" - only "Add a comment")
(Posted on 2007-12-26 07:53:00 by ) -
On the offchance that this gets looked at in the next few hours, are you performing today, Boxing Day? This website gives details from 1 January but presumably December's diary was on your old website, no longer available.
Also note that your email address given above (s-v-m@bigfoot.com) forwards to s-v-m@live.co.uk which bounces - also defunct?
(Posted on 2007-12-26 07:51:00 by )
Morris For Hire
If you would like to hire Sompting Village Morris to appear at your event, we can undertake Fetes, Weddings, Festivals and Private Parties.
Furthermore, The Sompting Banqueteers offer themed entertainment with music, dance and general mayhem.
Site News
04/05/08
As per request, today I have added a full list of the summer's sceduled stands, which can now be found within the Events Calendar. It should be fairly easy to copy-paste-print; you may have to highlight one column at a time, though. Good Luck with that!
love Simon
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