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If you're interested in learning morris
dance with Kingsessing
you should contact us
As of Sept. 13th, '21 the team has begun
practicing weekly
Joe
Passante
Bill Quern Jan Alter
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Schedule
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The team will
be dancing at these events
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Bryn Mawr May Day Celebration
April 30, '22
Morris Men Make History
on
May Day
The records show that George Washington and Gilbert du Motier,
Marquis de Lafayette had tea at the
Grange Estate in Havertown, PA. On May Day 2022 Kingsessing danced there as
well.
DANCING FOR
'YOU BET YOUR GARDEN'
April 13, 2022
The team was invited to dance and be interviewed, for the
long running garden show You Bet Your Garden,
hosted by Mike McGrath, in Bethlehem, PA, for the show's April 30th airing
at 10 am on TV channel 39 and FM 91.3
Watch the entire interview (S3
Ep. 34) by clicking below
CLICK ME
Joe Passante and Ed Stivender were interviewed
by Mike McGrath for the show and articulated both
the history and importance of morris dancing. For the rest of the team, watching
them
being interviewed was memorable.
DANCING ON THE FARM IN 2022
IN THE SNOW
Handsome Molly Dancers and Kingsessing Morris Men
Dancing at Terhune Orchards, in NJ, in the snow, to continue
a long tradition of
'Wassailing the Apple Trees' in 24° weather
can be somewhat of a challenge. However, a couple of small bonfires, sugared
doughnuts,
and hot cider makes it a little easier to overcome.
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
Phoenixville Spring Festival
June 2, 2019
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Morris dancing in Phoenixville on Bridge Street
caught the attention of many folks who
apparently had no idea what kind of dancing was being done. Still, there were
lots of
smiles and applause. And the team broke its own record for making two pub
stops in
less than two hours. Not a bad terpsichoreal afternoon.
CHESTNUT HILL HOME AND GARDEN FESTIVAL
2019
May 19, 2019
Lots of folks came out for the festival and Kingsessing put
out for them with a nice variety of dances.
A zumba and modern dance group shared the trolley track stage with the K-men
and made the event
that much more interesting and enjoyable to watch
MAY DAY
2019
Watch
channel 3's Interview
of May Day 2018
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 15 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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