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Here are some thrilling photos of the Foggy Bottom Morris Men in action during various "Ales" locally, in Vermont and in the Pacific Northwest. We also travel to Canada every few years and to England approximately every five years.

For many many more pictures, View Andrew's Photo Gallery

The National Archives Bethesda, MD Fells Point, Baltimore
Vancouver, BC Eastern Market, in Washington D.C. Getting some air in Fells Point
Showing some hanky in Bethesda On the north terrace of the Capitol At the Brattleboro, VT Farmer's Market
Fells Point, Baltimore The Church Stretton Street Festival, Shropshire, UK Red Square at Fells Point
The masked Border men get some hang time 'Shooting' at the Takoma Park Folk Festival The Upton on Severn stick dance
London, Ontario 'The Challenge' at Eastern Market 'Hands Across'

Videos

May Day Tour 2009 The Smithsonian staff caught sight of us outside the National Portrait Gallery, ran outside with equipment and edited this rather nice 3 minute documentary. You'll see clips of at least two different dances.

October 2007 30th Anniversary Ale Strictly speaking, this is Funkytown Morris Men, a young splinter group of Foggy Bottom Morris showing off their enthusiasm and energy.

February 2007 FSGW Midwinter Festival Folklore Society of Greater Washington tolerates morris invasions at their minifest in February. Here we show a stick dance originally written by the Binghamton Morris Men entitled, "Binghamton Stick Dance."

(Same Festival) And here we demonstrate a hanky dance, "Rose Tree (for 8)." Note awesome four-man hay in the middle of the chorus for which, alas, the cameraman zooms in too much.

April 2009 Cherry Blossom Tour Our annual Cherry Blossom Tour usually includes a few out-of-town teams. Here we see a mass dance on the US Capitol West Terrace with Albemarle Morris Men (Virginia), Kingsessing Morris (Pennsylvania), Ann Arbor Morris (Michigan), & Cold Barn Morris (Ontario).

Winter Solstice 2009 Occasionally, local musicians ask us to write an original dance to go with their music. Here we dance the "Solstice" dance to the original composition of award-winning local folkie and composer Jennifer Cutting.

April 2002 Cherry Blossom Tour Jackson Square; here is a 2-man jig form we reserve for the irrepresible or the pub-bound.

Winter Solstice 2006 We traditionally do a stand at the gazebo near town center in Takoma Park, MD every winter. Here, we perform the venerable Abbots Bromley Horn Dance in a ritualistic style.

Winter Solstice 2006 Mummer's Play (pt I) Here we see the boys ham it up in their usual irreverant way. Mummer's Plays are an old English tradition of folk plays; the audience expects certain lines and hurls very traditional heckling backtalk (in sync whenever possible). The stick dance is called "Fiddler's Rest," for obvious reasons.

Winter Solstice 2006 Mummer's Play (pt II)"Oh, terrible! Horrible! What have you done?!"

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