Phoenix may not have danced the sun up on Sunday morning but we did have a wonderful Mayday Bank Holiday weekend!

On Saturday we took a trip to Rochester for the Sweeps Festival. It was a beautifully sunny day, the music was playing, the company wasgood and our dancing wasn’t too bad either!

The dance spots were over an hour each so we were all happily exhausted by the end of the day.

On Sunday we were guests of our good friends Baldock Midnight Morris for the may celebrations in Pirton, Hertfordshire. It was a lovely afternoon with plenty of time to enjoy the sunshine in the pub garden in-between our two dance spots.

We even managed to finish off with a joint ‘Vandals’ as the grand finale. Thanks Baldock 🙂

It was so good to return to dancing at the Oxford Folk festival over the St George’s day weekend after so long.

A lovely day with a nice variety of dance spots with some great Sides. Everyone seemed in such high spirits and happy to be performing again so the atmosphere was buzzing!

Then on returning it was a quick dash down to The Cases Altered in Pinner to dance with Merrydowners for St Georges Day Evening 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

A great day and a great start to the season.

Finally, after all these months, Phoenix are back out and dancing. The Swanage Folk Festival was our first dance out since 2020 and we had an absolute whale of a time!

Phoenix turned out in force for the festival, even welcoming one of our new members into kit for the first time. A little rusty on some of our dances we still managed to give a great enthusiastic performance with lots of laughs along the way.

Saturday saw our youngest Phoenix Phollower joining his second Swanage procession at the ripe old age of 2 1/2.

Sunday ended with our now traditional dance in the sea. Always a lot of fun.

Overall a fantastic weekend! Thanks to everyone involved. It is good to be back!

Who would have thought that our first (so far only…) dance out of 2021 would be in such illustrious company?

A couple of weeks ago, a small selection of Phoenix members ventured to a top secret location to meet London based band, Sports Team and take part in the video for their latest single.

The band wanted to include some swords in the video so undaunted we borrowed a set of Rappers from our old friends Hawksword and set about learning how to tie a lock with them!

We had a great time over the 2 days of filming teaching the band an adapted version of Black Joker and getting involved in the filming.

You can see Sports Team’s video here: https://youtu.be/uYVsEMPwmA8

It has been a whole year since Phoenix Morris made the decision to suspend Practice due to Covid-19. A whole year of no festivals, pub nights and ceilidhs.

BUT we are still here.

Over the past 12 months, Phoenix have carried on practising via Zoom every wednesday from the comfort of our various living rooms. We’ve held virtual, practices, a virtual AGM and even a virtual Christmas dinner complete with Charades.

We have taken part in the lone morris festivals. We managed to comply with Covid rules and hold a face to face practice during the gap between lockdowns.

In a burst of creativity we even have 2 new dances written by side members who have decided to try their hands at writing a dance for the first time.

Phoenix morris are most definitely still standing and raring to get back to dancing whenever that becomes possible. We can’t wait to get our kit on and see our morris mates when events start up again.

We are still here and we really hope you will be too!