These are the Bampton Morris Men in the marquee at Sidmouth in 1999..Martin Carthy is centre front getting his guitar ready to play for them.Derek Schofield with the microphone.
Sidmouth Festival August 1991; Bampton Spring Bank Holiday Monday 1992. Keith Chandler playing for Queen Emmas a Eynsham in 1992. There are pictures of Alec Wixey/Mathew Green's Morris side and Francis Shergold's.
A letter from John Dowell the Festival Director of the Sidmouth Folk Festival, written November 4th 1981 to Francis Shergold the Squire of the Bampton Traditional Morris men, inviting the side to dance at the 1982 Festival which will be July 31st ...
Each year there is a huge International Folklore Festival in Sidmouth and in 1981 this was the full list of local accommodation available and it was put together by the local council. Very usefully it also gives the contact details of each place....
These pages give detailed information about the Festival for anyone attending plus the program of workshops and forthcoming trips. While Bampton Morris was not one of the sides attending in 1977 Francis Shergold did go privately.
This letter is from John Dowell, the Sidmouth International Folklore Festival Director at the time of writing the letter November 4th 1981 to Francis Shergold the Squire of the Bampton Traditional Morris Men and it is inviting the Bampton Morris M...