Welcome!
Welcome!
Mianus River Morris, organized around 1977, is a mixed Cotswold Morris side (mixed = includes both men and women dancers) whose stomping (and capering and beetle-crushing) grounds include the villages of lower Fairfield County, Connecticut and Westchester County, New York, to the north and east of New York City. We perform stick, handkerchief and hand-clapping dances from many village traditions including Bampton, Adderbury, Bledington, Bucknell and quite a few more. Our musicians include Leah Barkan and Paul Kerlee on accordion and other instruments, with occasional help from Andy Kuntz, Jim Norman, Walter Olson and others. Our Squires are John and Carol Mazza . Our kit includes white shirts, brown knickers and orange baldrics with shield, and orange, green and yellow ribbons. Rumor has it that we are immortalized somewhere around page 180 of Martha Stewart's Wedding Book, depicted dancing at a wedding in Stamford in 1984.
The team is pretty much in retirement
these days but should you wish to start things up again or just contact
us, see our contact info below or our member list.
Write to Mianus
River Morris
or call our squires John and Carol Mazza
203-372-3890
Please Note!!!
This website is a copy of the CD-ROM I made but HAS NO AUDIO, VIDEO OR
PICTURE FILES. I will try to remove all the links to them but may not
be totally successful. Sorry for any confusion.
Accomplished children's music teacher Paul Kerlee,
of Mianus River Morris, has published a book "Welcome in the Spring"
which is highly recommended. It has a tape (or 2 CDs) of Morris music
included as well! Write Paul
for more info or it can be ordered from the publisher World Music Press (WMpress@aol.com)
or see CDSS .
Some Morris links
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Counters courtesy of Michael Johnson. Thanks Mike!
