We ROCKED!!! :) (now with pictures...I hope!)

[Redwolf]

Just got back from the big Morris dance out. Our kids did GREAT!!! I'm just so proud of them! You'd have never guessed they've only been dancing since October...some of them even got to dance South Australia with the adults. I'll post a picture later, when I have time to download them from my camera (I've got to head out again in just a little over an hour now).

I don't think I did too badly. There were a few squawks, because I was nervous and not as accustomed to my Susato as I am to some of my other whistles, but I kept the rhythm keen, and I doubt many people noticed the other. I ran into one other whistler, playing a (I believe) Kerry Pro Low D and a Susato Kildare. There was also a lady playing what appeared to be a keyless piccolo (it was too tiny to be a fife, but it was blown transversely like a fife or piccolo) and a couple of concertinas (but no r****ders! ).

I'm just so stoked! We even had a couple of people approach us about gigs!

My new avatar is our logo "Morris" (we're Seahorse Morris, so he's either "Morris the Sea Horris" or "Morse the Seahorse" depending on who you're talking to).

Redwolf

[TomB]

Congratulations to all on a job well done!!

All the Best, Tom

[mvhplank]

Wonderful! Congrats to all!

M

[Redwolf]

You know what was especially neat? The adults were so friendly and welcoming to the kids. There were three adult teams there...Santa Cruz's own Seabright, a team from Hayward called Faultline and another team called White Rat (who, for some reason, dressed all in black). Nobody talked down to the kids (in fact, nobody referred to them as "the kids"...they were "Seahorse"), they allowed the kids to join adult sets for the dances they knew without question, and they were very liberal with the praise and positive input. That's really cool, to my way of thinking...so often children doing "adult" activities are either just cooed over as "cute" or dismissed as a necessary annoyance...these adults simply accepted Seahorse as fellow Morris Dancers.

Redwolf

[Soineanta]

What fun!! Get those pics up! Congrats to all!

[Redwolf]

OK, I messed up the first attempt at posting pictures, so let me try again (and I'll remember to preview this time!)

Here's Team Seahorse, minus a few members who hadn't arrived yet:



Here's my daughter, dancing with a friend from Seabright:



This is me, helping the kids get kitted up:



Here's Seahorse dancing "South Australia." I didn't play for this one because it was a mass dance, and I don't know it (yet!) in the same key as the other musicians:



And finally, here's my daughter and friend fascinated by Seabright's "Hobby Fish":



Hope this works this time!

Redwolf

[lollycross]

Very cool, very cool indeed!
Lolly

[Jerry Freeman]

Absolutely delightful.

[cowtime]

Great pictures! That looks like so much fun!

[Redwolf]

It sure does look like fun (it's definitely fun to watch, and to play for!). I'd love to join Seabright, but they practice on the same night (and at the same time) as my choir. I keep hoping one or the other will move practice times, but that doesn't look likely.

The kids really love it...I see them practicing on the playground at recess sometimes.

Redwolf

[Isilwen]

Congrats Redwolf!

[Walden]

I ran into one other whistler, playing a (I believe) Kerry Pro Low D and a Susato Kildare. There was also a lady playing what appeared to be a keyless piccolo (it was too tiny to be a fife, but it was blown transversely like a fife or piccolo) and a couple of concertinas (but no r****ders! ).

But I play the recorder.

[Redwolf]

I ran into one other whistler, playing a (I believe) Kerry Pro Low D and a Susato Kildare. There was also a lady playing what appeared to be a keyless piccolo (it was too tiny to be a fife, but it was blown transversely like a fife or piccolo) and a couple of concertinas (but no r****ders! ).

But I play the recorder.

So do I, which is why I winked

That's a gorgeous picture, by the way.

Redwolf

[lilymaid]

Morris dancing just plain rocks!
What could be cooler that bells and ribbons!
(Two of my favourite things)

[Cori]

Sounds marvellous, Redwolf, and thanks for the pictures too! May can consider itself well and truly welcomed in!