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Morris practice is ongoing.
If you are interested in dancing with Kingsessing
contact one of the folks below.
Joe
Passante
Bill Quern Jan Alter
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Schedule
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The team will
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May 4
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9 AM
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Bryn Mawr College
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May 18
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12
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Chestnut Hill |
Dancing for Planting
May 18,'25
Dancing the team's newest
dance, Wissahickon Schist
at the Chestnut Hill Garden Festival in Philadelphia
Watch the team dance
MAY DAY 2025
It was a beautiful day to
start May. Kingsessing, Renegade morris and many
friends welcomed the morning sun with dancing and singing for the traditional
beginning of planting season.
Mummers Day Parade 2025
Brats on Broad
'The Best of the Wurst'
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The word 'brat' ( "characterized by a confident, independent, and hedonistic
attitude") was selected by Collins Dictionary as the word of the year.
That became the theme for the team in this year's Mummers Day Parade. Hot
dog masks were the closest costuming the team could find quickly to characterize
the idea. The team performed a new dance,
The Nag, for the crowds along Broad Street, which apparently brought a lot
of enjoyment by the applause.
Watch the team dance on Broad Street by clicking
here
A very tasteful sign indeed
The K-men were proud to take the opportunity to dance at St.
Joseph's University to honor Doug Kurtz's retirement
from teaching there.
DANCING FOR THE APPLES
Feb 3, 2024
The above picture was published in Town Topics, Princeton's local cummunity newspaper
Dancing with Handsome Molly at Terhune Orchards in Princeton
is an annual event. The day's weather was exceptional with
a large turnout of folks that came to see the dancing, eat the doughnuts,
drink the cider, and roast marshmellows.
BRYN MAWR 'S MAY DAY
April 30, '23
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Even with the rain the enjoyment of dancing
to welcome a new season of spring overcame the wet weather.
It's clear that with the right fool and his chicken one can bring a laugh
to lots of folks.
Renegade Morris and Kingsessing shared the morning to help Bryn Mawr celebrate
their May Day Celebration
And with a little teaching from Curtis Hoberman a few hundred students were
dancing morris as well.
Click here to see
the Bryn Mawr May Day Celebration video.
here
YOU BET YOUR GARDEN 2023
Bethlehem, PA
April 14
Spring was on the airwaves with Mike McGrath both interviewing and having the K-men performfor his weekly show You Bet Your Garden, which aired on channel 39 on April 29th, '23 If you click the word GARDEN and look for S4 Ep34 you can watch the broadcast.
MUMMERS PARADE 2023
Since morris dancing is English in origin
the K-men thought it appropriate to honor Queen Elizabeth II's many years
on the throne with both a tribute and a dance in her memory. The team marched
and danced on Broad Street to the enthusiastic applause of thousands.
No kidding or exaggeration here.
Click here to watch
DICKENS FESTIVAL 2022
NARBERTH, PA
Dec. 4
Almost feels just like old times
Curtis teaching morris to everyone at the Dickens Festival
Monday Night Morris Practice '21
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No, the team is not in line waiting for
dinner. The men are dancing outside for safety
in the covid environment.
Adaptation and pragmatism are a key element to continued existence.
DANCING AT BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
IN THE SPRING
Ed Stivender captures the enthusiasm of
the moment to teach a few hundred Bryn Mawr
students a morris dance. Along with Rik Bourne's and Bill
Quern's music everyone was on a cloud of enjoyment
You can watch the team dancing at Bryn Mawr by clicking
MAY DAY 2021
Dawning masks at dawn at Belmont Plateau, in Fairmount Park,
to welcome the sun.
Some
of the great treasures of Kingsessing are its musicians.
The quality and sensitivity of their playing continually energizes
the dancers to give their best.
1st
Place WINNERS
in the 2020 MUMMERS DAY PARADE
Interestingly
enough there are morris teams in England that wear flowered hats all the time.
Kingsessing won 1st place with their 1 minute dance out of 19 entries. You
can watch them
dancing by clicking on the word
link
DANCING AT THE FARM
after the deep freeze
Feb 2, 2019
The K-men danced at Terhune Orchards, in Princeton,
NJ,on Ground Hog Day, for the
farm's annual Wassailing to the Apple Trees event along with Handsome Molly,
and
Green River Tap & Die, from New England. It was fine event and a nice
opportunity to finally
enjoy the outdoors in moderate winter temperatures compared to the polar vortex
ones
that had to be endured only a few days previously.
KINGSESSING WINS 3rd PLACE
at the
MUMMERS DAY PARADE 2019
Watch the team dancing in the Parade by
FIREBIRD FESTIVAL 2018
PHOENIXVILLE, PA
Dancing at the field where the Phoenix will
be fired. This picture seems to show plenty of light
but it was actually half as bright giving the dancers a lot more thought to
both carefully
clashing their sticks to each other and dancing.
The Kingsessing Morris Men dancing at Bryn
Mawr College's
May Day celebration about 15 years ago.
Listen to an Interview with
Kingsessing, and Mike McGrath
just before May Day,
about 20 years ago on
You
Bet Your Garden
on WHYY radio
Mummers Day Parade 2016
The Kmen's thematic dance in 2016 paired the
destruction of the worldly traveling Hitchbot when it came to Philadelphia
during the summer and the Pope's good will visit to the city later in early
fall.
Both visits were intended as something positive to benefit humanity and that
was something
Kingsessing wanted to celebrate a little more.
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