Morris On

The Wheal Sophia Morris team duly appeared and did their thing outside The Lamb last night. Morris dancing is not one of my favourite spectator events but there seemed to be a fair few people watching the event. Its noticeable that Morris dancing seems to be still a predominatly middle aged affair, unlike its Scottish or Irish folk dance equivalents which perhaps goes to show that the revival in English identity that has been much written about in recent years still has some way to go before it puts down the popular roots that exist for folk music and dancing in the Celtic nations.

Perhaps the fact that there does not seem to be funding for English cultural traditions as there is for such traditions elsewhere may be a major factor.